Is the switch the little cylinder that looks like the cutoff mechanism
on the VW Solex carbs?
Ken
On Mar 6, 2005, at 2:20 PM, M Aube wrote:
>
>
> That problem is usually caused by the microswitch at the throttle
> body. With
> the throttle closed and agaisnt the switch, the circuit controlled by
> the
> switch is supposed to be closed thus shutting off fuel between 1200
> and 1800
> rpms on deceleration. If that switch is the problem on your car, it is
> doing
> the opposite. The microswitch is closing the circuit on acceleration
> and
> shutting off the fuel delivery between 1200 and 1800 rpms. An easy way
> to
> test this is by disconnecting the microswitch, the surging should
> disappear.
>
>> On Mar 6, 2005, at 3:11 AM, kenneth parker wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have an 84 GL wagon that does not idle well and seems to,
>>> particularly when I keep a light foot on the pedal, be starving for
>>> fuel. I have an identical engined sedan that does not, under the
>>> same
>>> style of driving, exhibit any of the symptoms that my wagon does.
>>>
>>> I bought a very thorough, though complex way over my head, Bosch f.i.
>>> book a while ago. I find it a little harder to understand T.S.
>>> Eliot's
>>> "Four Quartets" and wonder if anyone could enlighten me with an
>>> explanation as to how to adjust and diagnose the system in a manner
>>> that, say, Fred Flintstone might understand.
>>>
>>> The car is recently tuned with new plugs, wires, valves meticulously
>>> adjusted and, what seems to be a good distributor.
>>>
>>> Another thing that I have noticed that the car's cluster, heater
>>> control and clock lights will often flicker. The battery light never
>>> comes on when this happens.
>>>
>>> If anyone out there can suggest a way for me to cure that kind of
>>> hunting lurching that I experience when I am not accelerating I would
>>> be very appreciative. I would also like to know how to bump up the
>>> idle a bit. Please, if any adjustments entail doing anything to that
>>> weird spanner-like screw on the front of the f.i. unit or the 3mm
>>> allen
>>> behind the air cleaner, please tell me what direction they should be
>>> turned to get the desired effect.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
>>>
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