Stalling on the Highway

["Mike Hopton" <mike@genesis-microchip.on.ca>]

     Well I had an "interesting" journey to work this morning that I thought I'd 
     share with the group. 
     
     On the highway cruising along about 120km/h when I start hearing this 
     whistling sound. Initially I hoped it was coming from some other poor soul, 
     after about another 5km's or so I was pretty sure it was my car. Shortly 
     after this I hit slow moving traffic and the car stalls. As I'd been 
     expecting something like this (fingers hovering over the hazard warning 
     light switch) I make it over to the hard shoulder (European term don't know 
     the North American). Pop the bonnet, oops I mean hood and look at the heap 
     of spaghetti that makes up the vacuum line routing. Nothing obvious.
     
     Go back and try starting the car, she'll start and keep going if you give 
     her plenty of throttle, let the revs drop and she cuts out. A few minutes 
     later a tow truck vulture, I mean driver, pulls over to see if he can help. 
     He starts her up and keeps it running and I try and figure out where the 
     whistling sound is coming from. The sounds seems to be coming from or near 
     the turbo.... 
     
     After a tow to Four Star racing and a long chat with Danny Sprongl about 
     some of the interesting cars they are working on (90 quattro 20 valve with 
     BFTurbo), Danny takes a look at the car. As it turns out the idle 
     adjustment screw at the opening to the intake manifold had popped out. 
     Danny fitted one from a 5K and I had an excellent drive across town in the 
     sun with no rush hour traffic! 
     
     I mention this to the group because the moral of the story for me is from 
     now on to keep a couple of corks, rubber boots and hose clamps in the car 
     for repairing vacuum leaks.
     
     Regards, Mike
     
     '85 TQC
     '83 TQC (under construction)