Re: sudden car death (fuel?)

[Geordy Rostad <grostad@thresholdnetworks.com>]

Does anyone thing I may have a fuel problem?  I just replace my injector 
seals btw.
Could it be a fuel filter?  Maybe I went over a bump and dislodged a 
grain of muck and clogged
it?  Could the fuel pump shaft separate from the pump mechanism so that 
it sounds like
it's spraying fuel but actually not...?   What is the easy method to 
check fuel flow?

When I put the new airboot on it almost started and then died so I don't 
think it's spark
or timing.  It only does the almost start and then die thing after 
having sat for quite a
while.

Geordy
'88 jetta 16v



geordy wrote:

> I want to replace the t-belt anyways since I have absolutely no idea 
> how long it has been on there.
> BTW, It died when I hit a bump in the road, my scirocco did the same 
> thing to my brother one
> time, he hit a bump (or jump) in the road and threw the timing off and 
> it ran shitty all the way home.
> Mine just died, I wonder what's up...
> 
> I put the airbox/intake stuff back together and the car still wouldn't 
> start.  I left all of the other
> belts off however...  I wouldn't think that would be a problem.
> 
> 
> 16v Jason wrote:
> 
>> Doesn't have to be that huge!
>> 
>> If you were able to see daylight in there, you have about 0 chance 
>> that the car will run.
>> 
>> That's your problem from the sound of it.  Try to start the car with 
>> a new one on there before you kill yourself checking the timing belt.
>> 
>> And why you going through so much trouble to check the belt this 
>> way?  Couldn't you just have taken the upper cover off without doing 
>> all that other shit?
>> 
>> Jason
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 01:17 AM 5/9/01 , Geordy Rostad wrote:
>> 
>>> It's not THAT large, but when I removed the pipe between the two 
>>> boots I saw
>>> daylight...
>>> 
>>> Brett Van Sprewenburg wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Also, I have noticed a big tear in the throttle body air boot.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Just so I can be the first.... :)
>>>> But this is probably the reason your car won't run, or start, or
>>>> what-ever...
>>>> Any tear in the boot is likely to cause running problems, a large
>>>> one will cause the car not to run at all...probably got your culprit
>>>> there.
>>>> ==Brett
>>>> \/  '84 Scirocco (ITB racer 2B) | "Hot VW's, take two home. They're 
>>>> small"
>>>> \/\/ '88 Scirocco 16v (Show), '92 Passat 16v (Winter+) | - 
>>>> brett@netacc.net
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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