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 mattie182
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 posted on April 16th, 2003 at 07:15 PM |
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CAN ANYONE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ive benn chasing this proble in the buggy for a while now. After driving it, starts to stutter, then it dies, maybe sometimes restarts and drives,
other times it sits there a couple of hours before being sriven home.
We have
1. Cleaned all fuel lines
2. New filters
3. New fuel pump
4, differant coil
5. differant dizzy
Any ideas.
please:cussing
Once you go flat, you never go back!!!!!!
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| posted on April 16th, 2003 at 07:25 PM |
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Perhaps you have something in your fuel tank? The guy at Mick Motors told me about this happening to a girl who'd tried everything to find the
problem in her kombi. Turns out there was a bottle cap in the fuel tank. Gave all the same symptoms.... He reckons if you don't want to pull
the tank (which on the kombi is a nightmare!), you get a bit of thin wire, and anchor it to your fuel filter, thread it through the fuel line and back
up into the fuel tank so it protrudes a couple of inches. That should stop anything lodging over the outlet.
(Happened to the victim on "Law & Order" the other night too, only she had a ping pong ball. And of course she got murdered... Thank
god life doesn't have to imitate art!)
Good Luck,
Angela.
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| posted on April 16th, 2003 at 07:30 PM |
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I reckon that's a great answer! :thumb
The only other thing I can think of is to try yet another coil.
Kruizin Kol
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| posted on April 16th, 2003 at 07:56 PM |
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oh yeh
I forgot, we cleaned all the fuel lines, and even pulled the outlet off the tank
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| posted on April 16th, 2003 at 08:38 PM |
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Hmmm....
Is there fuel in the carb/s when it stops & dies?
Is it happening consistently, or only when going at night, up hills, etc etc?
This problem was my most recent saga with my kombi - I know just how frustrating it can be!
Ang.
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| posted on April 16th, 2003 at 08:48 PM |
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what about spark plug leads? I have had faulty leads give me bizarre problems.
I also had a power wire get cut on a sharp bit of the car, and only touch and short out randomly. when I drove the car the wire would bounce and short
out, bringing me to a stop. Then once stopped it wouldn't be shorted so I couldn't find it!
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| posted on April 16th, 2003 at 09:00 PM |
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check the plugs
I just spent 2 weekends trying to fix my sisters beetle. We tryed everthing and it turned out to be one dud plug, Check and change your plugs, it just
may be that
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| posted on April 17th, 2003 at 10:04 AM |
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Leads!
Same thing happened to my gf (non vw tho).
Changed the leads, as well as the rotor button and dizzy cap just to be safe and its run great ever since...
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| posted on April 18th, 2003 at 04:13 PM |
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Mine is Suby
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| posted on April 19th, 2003 at 06:20 PM |
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Just tried a differan coil lead, and a differant fuel supplie (boat tank) Problem still there
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| posted on April 19th, 2003 at 08:03 PM |
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could the carby bowl float be broken or fuel pump problem.
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