[Vwdiesel] Injection pump talk/tuning - experiencing longercranking starts

[Roger Brown]

Raymond Greeley wrote:
> 
> I'm a returning vw diesel owner, basically a newbie. I'm experiencing
> longer cranking startups. I have a 81 1.6 na pickup 188k miles. Here
> are several symptoms: 15-20sec glow plug light, rarely stays started
> first fire up, warm restart a little better, runs well after several minutes.
> The car has set for more than a year and I'm 200 miles into the first
> tank of fresh fuel. Low temps in Chicago have been in the 30's. At
> highway speeds i notice an occasional flicker of the wts light.
> I doubt it will start when temps drop further and I'll be taking the train.
> How does one become a pump gang apprentice, is there a journeymen
> in Chicago willing to run a clinic. ray

I assume "wts" is the glow plug light.  If so, test the plugs, relay and
temp sender:
	http://www.4crawler.com/Diesel/CheapTricks/GlowPlugs.shtml
I had all the above problems over the years and its always been
something in the GP system.  Had a batch of "bad" relays that all turned
out to be a broken contact inside the GP relay socket that led to
intermittent contact with the temp sender and that let to intermittent
GP relay problems like the light staying on too long, flickering on and
off at random, etc.

-- 
   Roger