[Vwdiesel] Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] occasional stuck cold start cable?

[Bradley Flubacher]

I read a bulleting somewhere that said you should pull the cold start
knob after the engine starts or while cranking. (Strange, I know!)

In my experience, sometimes the knob will pull out only a little bit-
and like you said, it could be forced... but probably not the best. I
found that if I crank the engine, I can then pull it all the way out.
Let me know if this works for you! I'm curious.

Brad

Gary Shea wrote:

>Hi y'all, I've been the happiest camper around with my 'new' 82 diesel
>rabbit, what fun.  After a vanagon, it feels like a sports car.  I guess
>that's kind of sad...
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>Question and a story.
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>Question: sometimes when I am about to start the rabbit, I grab the cold
>start cable and pull, it doesn't want to move.  It can be forced, but
>it's like it's really really stiff.  The cable feels like it's going to
>break, and it can't be pushed back in by hand if I do forcefully pull it
>out.  Happens every 20th start or less, I'm guessing.  As soon as the
>engine is running, no problem.  Some day I need to take a pump apart,
>maybe it's obvious then?
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>Story: when I first went to look at the rabbit, I noticed that the
>driver's side cv bolts were half gone, and the boot had a hole in it...
>in the _metal_ part!  Weird, wonder what did that... huh.  Pointed it
>out to the owners, the kid who had been driving it mentioned that he'd
>replaced that driveshaft.  Ok, that explains the missing bolts, he
>didn't tighten them up enough.  A week or so later I'm putting on the
>new boot with the whole driveshaft out and I look a little closer...
>there's a hole in the side of the transmission right by the cv!  A big
>hole, about an inch tall and a quarter inch wide like a grinder was
>used.  Well... one pair of cv bolts had the strip of metal you often see
>joining each pair, and I guess you see the rest.  Urk.  I took PC7
>(gooey fibrous epoxy) and some galvanized window screen, cleaned the
>hell out of the transmission housing with mineral spirits, coated the
>window screen with a thick layer of PC7 and stuck it on there, spread
>the PC7 all over in a big gooey mess.  A few days later, it's still
>there.  I try not to think about it...
>
>Have fun!
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>        Gary
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