[s-cars] Quoth Bones, "He's dead, Jim." Part Deux

[chris chambers]

If you suspect water is in the fuel, I suggest draining the tank and
replacing the fuel.

Chris

--- Robert Myers <robert at s-cars.org> wrote:
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> Hi Y'all (again),
>
> Patient: '95 urS6 with MTM 1+ chipset and 3 bar PT.
>
> More info.  VAG-COM indicates no fault codes except that there is no
> signal
> from the engine speed sensor.  Not surprising, eh what, with the
> engine not
> running?  The ECU fuse is OK.
>
> I tried to fire it up and the engine caught fairly quickly and ran
> not too
> badly for about 5 seconds and then seemed to starve for fuel again
> and
> died.  While it ran there was no obvious miss.
>
> Let me run something by everyone.  I filled the tank yesterday
> morning
> before we went very far into our planned 400+ mile drive.  My usual
> station
> was lined up several cars deep so I went on past it and stopped at a
> fairly
> new truck stop about 20 miles into the trip.  I have never stopped
> there
> before.  I topped up the tank with about 12 gallons of 93 and then
> headed
> on North.  The outbound portion of the trip was basically freeway
> driving.  No bad hills or sharp bends.  Therefore no great
> accelerative
> forces.  The return portion of the trip we decided to go back home
> the "fun
> way".  Narrow two lane mountain roads with lots of fairly steep hills
> and
> sharp and fairly fast corners - lots of accelerative forces.
>
> D'ya s'pose this might have stirred up possible contamination (water?
>  Lots
> of rain recently in the location of the truck stop) enough to have
> stopped
> the engine?  I wonder if an extended cranking might free the system
> and get
> the engine to fire up again.  Would this damage anything?
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