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[HELP!] The continuing saga of Daun's poor running '80 Scirocco
His won't buzz, because its an 80 & it doesn't have a
frequency valve.
--- Shawn C Meze <skerocdriver@juno.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:32:53 -0700 (PDT) Daun
> Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com>
> writes:
>
> >I've been over vacuum lines a few times, though not
> with
> >carb cleaner.
>
>
> Might show you something, might not. Im thinking its
> too rich personally.
>
>
>
>
> >Any clue on how to set it up properly? I've leaned
> it
> >considerably from what it was when I put this
> distributor
> >on - could see puffs of black smoke at idle.
>
>
> Puffs of black is an overly rich condition.
>
> Well, without a way to check fuel mixture (IE the
> right equipment) you
> can do the old Potterman method.
>
> What he does is turns the handle (on the 3mm hex
> wrench) counter
> clockwise until the car starts to stumble. (Warm it
> up first.) then he
> turns it clockwise until the buzzing from the fuel
> distributor starts to
> run, stop run, run, stop run. Then he finds a happy
> meduim makng sure the
> buzzing of the fuel distributor is continuous. It
> tends to end up a tad
> on the rich side BUT its ok. A little rich is safe,
> lean is bad.
>
>
>
> >Yeah... gotta miss this year. Probably next
> year
> >though. When are you and Julie coming to Cincy?
> :)
> >
> >Thanks for the ideas.
>
>
> Um, were not! LOL!! :)
>
>
> Shawn Méze
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