Again, when it rains it pours!!...now bad throttle switch?

[Jim Dupree]

I have not followed this thread real well so hopefully
I am not repeating someone else's advice. 
Check the 10amp fuse for the CIS-E system. It sit
sideways in the fuse panel and looks like a spare
fuse. Fuse number 22 I believe. I have had several
cars over the years come in with starting problems
that were caused by some one using the "spare" fuse or
moving the "spare" fuse. If the fuse is bad or been
moved/removed the fuel system go in to "Limp" mode but
the early CIS-E "Limp" mode often means it won't start
except at just the right temperature and it runs very
poorly until warm when it only runs poor. The poor
starting and running are exaggerated if the car was
running a bit lean before the fuse problem.
Good Luck
Jim


--- Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:

> 
> > No it was not an intermittent problem. It happened
> > once last Thursday and found that by activating
> the
> > WOT ignition switch, the sputtering and inability
> to
> > accelerate stopped.
> > 
> > Now, a day prior to this, the hall sender in the
> dizzy
> > went south. Prior to that, it was hard to
> accelerate,
> > literally. The gas pedal was hard and it took for
> ever
> > for the car to get it going on 4th and 5th; all
> this
> > following a clutch job that took about 5 months to
> > complete due to my job. It took about 545 miles of
> > driving and pouring fuel injection cleaner and
> > cleaning the dizzy cap and rotor then problem went
> > away.
> 
> Got it... sounds like a bit of "shaking off the
> sleep" from not being 
> run for so long.
> 
> > Prior to the last and recent incident, the car was
> > running fine.
> > 
> > As for codes, I don't think these can be pulled
> from a
> > JT engine code; at least not in the conventional
> way
> > as in the 5KTQ.
> 
> No codes on that engines management, correct.
> 
> > I drove home from work last night and back to work
> > this afternoon with no incident.
> > 
> > Could it have been bad fuel or a clog in the
> system
> > that was improved by the activation of the WOT
> switch?
> 
> It could be "anything" - and the WOT switch may have
> only interacted 
> with it very peripherally.
> 
> If I were you I'd try to generally clean things over
> time - especially 
> electrical connections (starting at the intake
> manifold ground), to get 
> rid of 20 years of futz.  Freshen up fluids and
> vacuum lines, that sort 
> of thing.
> 
> And cross your fingers that things only get better.
> 
> -- 
> Huw Powell
> 
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> 
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