[Vwdiesel] Stall during wet & wooly weather

[Weasel]

I'll second that.  I run water injection in the summer and it will spray in
a whole lot more water that you would have sucked in through the air filter.
Try a can of ignition spray on the wires. That'll help for a little while.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Hillsgrove" <hillsgrove at tds.net>
To: <vwdiesel at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Stall during wet & wooly weather


> >I wonder if the air/water mixture was so intense in that weather that
> >the engine inhaled a fair amount of water, some got hung up somewhere
> >(now I'm really reaching!) and with the sloshing of the stop, some got
> >sucked in?
> >
>
>
>
>  I'm not sure what the problem was, but I'm quite sure that this was NOT
it.
> There is so little "squish" area between the head and piston on a diesel
> that it takes a very small amount of water to hydrolock one. This is a bad
> thing. If it happens at idle, you might get lucky and not damage anything,
> but at speed it has been known to bend rods and other nasty things.
Probably
> about on par with losing the timing belt as far as destruction goes.
>
>  It sounds to me as though you might have got a slug of water in the fuel
> (also not a good thing for the pump) or you have a loose connection on the
> injection pump stop solenoid. If it continues to bother, you could
> temporarily hook up a test light in the car powered off of the stop
solenoid
> terminal to see if it is intermittently losing power.
>  Perhaps something is blocking off your intake? Did a bag or something get
> sucked into the intake pipe and is now covering the air filter?
>
>   Lee
>   Oo-v-oO
>   PP-ASEL
>   KB1GNI
>
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