she starts, she won't run - 1990 200QA

[Geraint Lloyd]

just a thought

golf 1 GTIs used to display similar internal metering head issues when
the mild steel filler neck rusted out allowing all sorts of gunge into
the injection
cure was to dismantle the metering head and clean it with a75% chance of
getting it back together again properly (no leaks etc) afterwards.
the mechanical part of the metering head comes off fairly easily though.
a known good 2nd hand one might be a way out.

otherwise it might be a sticky air flow plate / plunger so it's running
on the csv until  it dies
if you take the air filter out and give it a good waggel before starting
it, does that do anything for you?
 
unless you have an air leak/crack in the boot/igloo
should you fancy a new one they seem cheap enough here
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=020&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=300033425040&rd=1&rd=1
but the guy won't ship to canada
should you (or someone else) feel like buying one could you let me know
and we could perhaps come to some arrangement

Geraint


David Michael wrote:
> Well, after 12 years of owning a type44, the love affair may be ending.  Our
> beloved 1990 200QA is seriously misbehaving. When cold, its starts
> immediately, and then just as quickly dies.
>
> I ran through the archived, and found a posting  from someone who had
> exactly the same problem. Turns out that someone was ME - about 8 years ago.
> The problem then was a vacuum leak through the valve cover gasket.
>
> Unfortunately, not so easy this time. I rpeaced the gasket last year.  The
> car has been at an experienced Audi mechanic for three weeks. They have
> checekd all the sensors, all the pressures and all the control signals,
> found no vacuum leaks and they said they all  checked out nominally. What
> they told me is that there seems to be something in the fuel distribute that
> is creating too lean a condition, but the only way to be sure was to replace
> it. At which point I said stop. This all came on rather suddenly - the car
> started fine through the 8 winters an  all through the summer and fall. But
> when it got below 30 (finally), then it started misbehaving.
>
> I am not really asking for advice hear, since I no longer have much time to
> got out and fiddle with the car. I will check the valve cover gasket again,
> since but short of that, I am stumped.
>
> I am bummed.....
>
> Dave
> 1990 200QA
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