[T3] Mysterious squareback condition

[Jim Adney]

On 26 Jan 2011 at 22:48, Tim Keohane wrote:

> Correct, it seems unlikely. I had driven about 12 miles on a complete  
> rebuild, when the car bucked, belched and smoked like a tire on fire.  
> After 10 to 15 seconds of this and me maneuvering the freeway it quit.  
> Only to return within minutes. After 2 days of messing around that is  
> the symptom and cure that was determined. No one has ever seen this  
> before. I suspect you are correct in concluding something was awry and  
> during the fussing it was corrected. I mentioned this as it is a  
> simple try. 

It would be really interesting for you to disconnect and insulate the other end 
of that wire now, without disturbing anything else, and see if your problems 
came right back.   

It makes me wonder if your dist trigger points have worn to the point where 
they don't trigger properly. That usually results in poor running, but I 
haven't seen a lot of smoke with that problem.  

Did this happen in very cold weather? If so, I HAVE seen lots of smoke due to 
freezing up of the breather box on cars that had that little foam filter in 
there. I think that was only 68-9, but maybe 67 and earlier also. Those filters 
got removed and thrown away for most cars that lived in cold climates.

Russ, were those filters removed as the result of a recall?


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Jim Adney
jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, WI USA