Ur-q is FINALLY up and running very well!!

[Larry C Leung]

Congrats! Finally, IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!

LL - NY

On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:25:17 EDT GMBCHEF at aol.com writes:
>Hi guys. Finally got it all sorted. With the help of LL and Toby, we 
>discovered the air sensor plate was out of spec, due to broken clip on 
>the 
>stop spring. Went junk yarding and got a couple of these parts from a 
>Jetta 
>and a 5k. Installed them and set the plate height. Tried starting it, 
>but it 
>was flooding like crazy. Replaced injectors and o-rings, same thing. 
>Removed 
>plugs, cranked it over to see what was up with that, and it was 
>raining gas 
>under the hood! Pulled the fuel pump fuse, replaced plugs, cranked it 
>over 
>and it wanted to start. Hmm... Kept playing with the mixture screw 
>till I 
>finally got it right. Car started and was able to idle, but VERY 
>rough. I 
>then remembered after all the cranking with no spark (turned out to be 
>
>ignition switch), to check the oil for gas contamination. Sure enough, 
>it was 
>watered down enough for the oil pressure light to go on. Changed the 
>oil and 
>filters. STILL ran rough. After checking all sensors, grounds, fuses 
>and 
>chasing other electrical gremlins, I put on a Hall sender plug from a 
>4 cyl 
>Jetta. ( Force 5 Auto). Nothing gained. 
> To find out what was going on there, I put my timing light on each 
>plug 
>wire, one at a time. No spark on #5. I found that by jiggling the cap, 
>it 
>would spark on #5, but not on #1. So... I looked at the old Hall 
>sender 
>connector to see if I had soldered the wires to the right ones going 
>to the 
>'puter Looked like it.(the wires were not colored the same as the 
>original 
>connector). The wires coming out of the boot were soldered to the 
>wires as 
>they were coming out of the boot. Then I double checked and triple 
>checked. 
>Hmm. Not soldered to the right wire according to the colors of the 
>wires from 
>old connector. Took off the boot, and two wires were crisscrossed in 
>side the 
>boot! So I UN crisscrossed them, resoldered everything, fired her up 
>and went 
>for a spin. Runs great, very smooth idle, I have ALL my boost back and 
>I'm 
>VERY happy!!!
>Thanks for all the help
>
>Gary