[Vwdiesel] Fueling screw

Bryan K Walton bryankwalton at machlink.com
Thu Sep 21 09:27:02 EDT 2006


Am I correct in thinking that this screw ONLY affects how much fuel is
pushed through when I've got the accelerator floored? 

-Bryan

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 05:28:47AM -0400, Terry Briggs wrote:
> I gave a lot of thought about that prior to actually doing it. I will 
> say I haven't really noticed any decrease in performance at all, in 
> fact it seems to run a bit better, on my way to rochester over the 
> weekend, there were only a couple hills I had to drop a gear on, other 
> than that it was cruising at 70mph the whole way, with a bit better 
> mileage from what I can tell, of course all this may change when I run 
> a can of lubro moly through it this week. I have no idea if the PO that 
> had the car messed with the screw, except for the fact the lock collar 
> was free, and it did smoke like that ever since I've had it.
> On Sep 19, 2006, at 1:28 AM, LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > In a message dated 9/18/2006 10:21:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > vbriggs at stny.rr.com writes:
> >
> >> I'm very satisfied. Prior to turning the screw the golf would
> >> smoke like crazy under hard acceleration, so bad in fact, I got 
> >> stopped
> >> on a highway on ramp by a state trooper because it was smoking so bad,
> >> granted there were 5 adults in the car with the a/c on, but it was 
> >> bad.
> >> So far that I can see, that has all but stopped.


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