[Vwdiesel] need cold start cable.

[Dave Cook]

Aha!  That is what I was thinking but couldn't remember for sure.  

Well, I for sure know what I would do.  Go find yourself a Jetta cold start mechanism!  When I am doing a conversion, I try to make the thing just like it would have been if the Factory had done it.

Dave Cook


--- On Tue, 5/10/11, dieseltdi at verizon.net <dieseltdi at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: dieseltdi at verizon.net <dieseltdi at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] need cold start cable.
> To: "Dave Cook" <davevw at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 7:55 PM
> That is a blank for a cold start
> handle like was used in the Jettas because the cabriolet
> dash is more like the Jetta than the rabbit.  I am
> thinking about just finding an old choke cable and fixing it
> up as a cold start.  Hayden
> On May 10, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Dave Cook wrote:
> 
> > I don't think I ever did get a cold start cable
> installed in my cabriolet.  I may have just set the
> timing a touch more advanced, but either way it never was a
> problem starting.  
> > 
> > I do remember always having the idea for one... 
> On at least the '86, to the left of the steering wheel, is a
> pull handle of some sort.  On mine it was actually just
> a blanking plate so I don't know what option it may have
> been used for, though it seems like I was told once that
> there were cars that used the same dash and it was actually
> a place for a cold start cable on those cars.  Now I
> can't remember if either of the '92s had this same blanking
> plate, either.
> > 
> > I wish I could remember better, but I do remember
> thinking that it would be the perfect place to set up a cold
> start cable without drilling holes anywhere.
> > 
> > I also remember briefly investigating the automatic
> cold start mechanism on some cars (maybe Volvo?) but didn't
> bother to investigate real far.
> > Dave Cook
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Tue, 5/10/11, dieseltdi at verizon.net
> <dieseltdi at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: dieseltdi at verizon.net
> <dieseltdi at verizon.net>
> >> Subject: [Vwdiesel] need cold start cable.
> >> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com,
> "Audi-VW-diesels Mail list" <audi-vw-diesels at yahoogroups.com>
> >> Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 1:05 AM
> >> Hey guys, I am in need of a cold
> >> start cable from a Rabbit, Jetta or Golf.  I
> also need
> >> the glow plug fuse holder that goes on to the
> >> firewall.  Hayden
> >> " Those who are willing to sacrifice Liberty for
> Security,
> >> deserve neither Liberty nor Security."  Ben
> Franklin
> >> "Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism!" 
> Thomas
> >> Jefferson
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> >> 
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> >> 2004 Jetta GL PD TDI
> >> 1968 Beetle, my latest project, watch for details
> >> And many, many, many VWs; from a 1947 Beetle (13
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> >> total), to Vans (5 - 3 splitties, 2 bay window
> (both were
> >> campers), 1 Vanagon Westy, Rabbits (3), Karmen
> Ghia (1),
> >> Jettas (7), Passats (2), Dasher (1), New Beetle
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> >> Rabbit Pickups (3) most now gone but not
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> " Those who are willing to sacrifice Liberty for Security,
> deserve neither Liberty nor Security."  Ben Franklin
> "Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism!"  Thomas
> Jefferson
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> Visit my website at:  http://mysite.verizon.net/resosxp8/mydieselpages/
> Proud owner of:
> 2004 Jetta GL PD TDI
> 1968 Beetle, my latest project, watch for details
> And many, many, many VWs; from a 1947 Beetle (13 Beetles
> total), to Vans (5 - 3 splitties, 2 bay window (both were
> campers), 1 Vanagon Westy, Rabbits (3), Karmen Ghia (1),
> Jettas (7), Passats (2), Dasher (1), New Beetle (1), and
> Rabbit Pickups (3) most now gone but not forgotten.
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