16v down and barely running , anyone got some advise? It'srunning...

[asbfooh at yahoo.com (A J)]

The car runs now !! I woke up in the morning and
squirted some starter fluid in there , it started
right up and was idleing fine , so looks like I must
have flooded it really bad , the cap and rotor must
have been toast and then the plugs werent firing so It
just fowled out and fuel wasnt burning , it just
needed to sit for awhile , thats my take on it , that
was the third time I had her towed and she came back
to life by itself or with the simplest fix , I just
hate being in panic mode when she doesnt wanna run !!
Thanks again people for the sugestions !!!!!! Aaron in
San Jose -





--- dswalterwi <dswalterwi@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I'm just guessing because this happened to me. 
> Check to make sure that
> you didn't accidentally separate the O2 sensor
> connector which happens
> to be in the area that you were probably working.  I
> bumped mine, it
> looked like it was connected but was slightly
> separated and the car ran
> like crap. HTH
> Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf
> Of A J
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:04 PM
> To: Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: 16v down and barely running , anyone got
> some advise?
> 
> Well , just as I get my custom short shift installed
> and get on the highway to pick up the kid , my 16v
> starts to shug and feels like its running out of gas
> ,
> I pull off the highway and the car dies , I turn it
> over and it starts only with my foot on the gas and
> it
> sounds like its running on 1 cylinder with some
> smokey
> exhaust , I can hear my fuel pump come on with the
> key
> and the gas smells like fuel so it must be getting
> gas
> , luckilly I'm a block from an auto parts so I go
> over
> and get some plugs cap and rotor and just go for a
> tune up , double check the parts and put them in ,
> the
> car starts right up but then is just sputtering ,
> same
> deal as before , so I'm back at my house and the car
> is towed back , I looked thru my book for trouble
> shooting , the car ran fine this morning , could
> this
> be an ignition problem ? maybe my coil or a problem
> with the distributor ? Aaron in San Jose -
> 
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