Re: All things scirocco...

["Brian Wagner" <scirocco_88_16v@hotmail.com>]

Check the fuel accumulator.

Brian


>From: Jerry Carter <jerry.carter@shaw.ca>
>To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>, Cory Langford 
><cory.langford@icbc.com>
>Subject: Re: All things scirocco...
>Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:03:09 -0800
>
>or those times that you should just let the girl go.....
>
>That's almost where I'm at with my old girl. she just won't go for me! I've
>tried almost everything tha I can think of. I've cleaned out the entire 
>fuel
>system and replaced as many parts as I have money for, and I jsut can't 
>make
>my 'roc run warm! it has no problem at all with the cold starts, just the
>warm ones! If I sart it cold, it runs fine. great in fact. but when the 
>temp
>gets to the normal range, it just doesn't want to go anymore. with help 
>from
>the father in law I've had it running for a while tonight, the fan even 
>came
>on, twice! But the whole while we had the mixture set so rich it was 
>blowing
>black from the tail pipe. nd like an idiot, I decided that this will not 
>do.
>and leaned it out a little. when I did the idle jumpped and we rapidly
>adjusted that to match the new mixture setting, and while we were in the
>middle of patting each other on the back for a job well done, we hear this
>eerie silence coming from the engine bay. The thing had died. the new fuel
>pump I bought today stayed on for a few seconds as if to mock us, and with
>the ensuing attempts to re-start my beloved, I managed to drain the battery
>of all remenants of life. a jump start an hour later brought that happy
>sound back into my life, but that was cut short by the constant problem
>plagueing me recently, it got warm. anyone want a '81 scirocco that doesn't
>run? my wife sure doesn't!
>
>Jerry Carter
>'81 Mk1 Scirocco
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Cory Langford" <cory.langford@icbc.com>
>To: "scirocco" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 2:47 PM
>Subject: All things scirocco...
>
>
> > A Scirocco item for those times of road rage ;)
> >
> > <http://www.remington.com/ammo/pages/centerfire/pre_scir.htm>
> >
> >
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