Engine died on highway - won't re-start

[Rave Racer]

    I had this happen to me in my Jetta.  I don't know if yours has the
Airflow plate in the intake boot like my Jetta and 4000 do.  I was doing 140
way out in the boonys when the engine just quit on me.  I was pulled over on
the side of the road with my freind cranking the engine when someone pulled
up.  The stranger offered me help, but watched while I messed around with
stuff.  I opened the intake boot and pulled out the air filter thinking it
might be jammed up with something.  I started playing with the fuel
distributor while my buddy tried starting it.  She fired right up.  The
stranger had some stuff he was taking to the dump so I asked for the string
from the venetian blinds.  I tied it to the plate and fed it out the top
through a unused hole in the boot, out of the hood, through the passenger
window and around to my shifting hand.  I drove it like that for two weeks
until I could locate a replacement FI distributor.  I never did figure out
what was wrong with that old distributor, but it's damn hard modulating your
fuel flow by hand while driving.

       Rave Racer
'89 Jetta 1.8L 16V GTX
 http://www.vwot.org/members/Pete.html
'87 Audi 4000 Quattro Sedan
 http://www.audifans.com/registry/view.php?action=viewCar&carid=110
'72 Triumph GT6
 http://motorcities.com/contents/01I3H011116682.html
'83 Toyota Tercel (yoda)     Possible future Sandrail donor...  Maybe
----- Original Message -----
From: Jouko Haapanen <joukoh at sympatico.ca>
To: q-list <quattro at audifans.com>; W-T_Audifans
<w-t_audifans at yahoogroups.com>; Peter Berrevoets <pjberr at rogers.com>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: RE: Engine died on highway - won't re-start


My UrQ did the same to me once...had me stumped for quite a while.  My
problem was the pressed in vacuum hose fitting on the rear of the intake
manifold from which the ECU and some other vacuum lines initiate.  The
fitting seemed perfectly fine when viewed (trust me, I was poking around for
a while), but once I took hold of it, it just slid out of the manifold.

I pulled it out, cleaned it, and tapped it in with a rubber mallet.  Worked
like a charm, but only after being towed and spending an hour or so under
the hood scratching my head and going through various component tests.

I'd check and double check all vacuum fittings....

Jouko Haapanen


-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Peter Berrevoets
Sent: February 1, 2002 11:24
To: 2 W-T_Audifans; 1 Quattro List
Subject: Engine died on highway - won't re-start


Have tried searching the archives but not having much luck...

While driving on the highway the other night, everything was going fine and
then the engine just died at ~120 kph. Total loss of power, costed off at
the next ramp and parked it. Nothing appeared to be amiss, pulled codes and
got 2221 - intake manifold hose failure to ecu(shouldn't kill engine), and
2214 - engine over rev (not this trip), cleared them, cranked the engine and
got the same codes again. Had it towed home :-(

Kind of stumped, fuel in tank, lots of battery juice, cranks over fine (new
battery), but just won't even hint at starting. Usually the code dump would
give a hint, but they don't seem to make sense. Hose to ecu checks out fine
but that shouldn't kill the engine, and over rev on starter cranking? go
figure.

Any ideas?

TIA

Peter

Peter Berrevoets
1990 200TQ
1989 200TQ - Donor
Toronto, Canada