Fuel Flooding

[Kneale Brownson]

cold start system staying open all the time?

At 03:01 PM 5/29/2005 -0400, Brother Bill wrote:
>My '86 Quattro 5 cylinder seems to be flooding itself once it gets at
>normal operating temperature.  It starts ok when it's cold and runs fine
>most of the time.  Once it gets normal temperature it seems to somehow
>flood itself by bucking, skipping, backfiring and eventually stalling
>and unable to start for quite awhile.  While it was running I wiggled
>the electric wires that go to the differential pressure regulator
>attached to the fuel distributor and all hell broke loose.  If I wiggled
>it one way it seemed to run ok and another way it started choking,
>bucking, backfiring and all of that.  I did install a new fuel pump and
>filters because I thought it wasn't getting any fuel but that's not it.
>It seems to be getting too much fuel and it's flooding itself.  Has
>anyone ever had this problem?  Can anyone offer me advice?  I'm totally
>stumped.
>Thanks, Bill
>_______________________________________________
>quattro mailing list
>quattro at audifans.com
>http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/quattro