[A2 TECH] Odd Problem, Non Rocco

[thescirocco@juno.com]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:41:04 -0500 Christopher Grossi <cgrossi@dwc.edu>
writes:
> 
> My friend had a 90 Jetta GL Wolfsburg Edition. It's a GL so it's a 
> 1.8 8v.
> A problem developed with it tonight while he was driving. He went to 
> take off from a stop and the car shuttered like as if he was doing 
> something wrong with the clutch in 1st gear then it quit. It just
started 
> doing this randomly. Now you start the car and it idles perfect, sounds
great, 
> but when you put it in first and go to take off it rolls like a foot
and 
> wants to go but the engine just quits like someone turned the key off.
No 
> shutter or anything, just quits. It's seems like it's in first gear
okay, 
> because it starts to take off like it normally would, that is before it

> quits.

I'd check the rubber bellows on the throttle body for a small rip.

I'd also make sure that the fuel distributor inlet banjou bolt has the
screen removed.

The car has DigiFart, so you can check it for error codes.

What does the tach do when it acts up? 
Does it slowly bog down to 0, or drop directly to 0, each time the car
bucks?

HTH,
Peter
'79 Scirocco 16V project car
'83 GTI "Caged Rabbit" 
'84 Scirocco, RD/FF
'80, '88 Scirocco rollers

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