[T3] car died on way home

[Dave Hall]

I was dusting my Fastback engine at a show, then had to drive it back to
where the club stand was.  It stopped just by the stand and didn't seem to
want to start. I thought maybe I'd knocked something when dusting, and it
proved to be that.  The CHT connector had separated - I had disconnected it
at some point, but thought I had got it back together firmly, but that was
what the problem was.    Nice to sort out a problem quickly in such a public
place - and just on the next stand was our friendly local VW expert.

Dave
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of C.
Rochambeau
Sent: 11 March 2012 16:32
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] car died on way home

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

"Back at the engine, against the "firewall," just to left of center, there
should be an inline connector that connects a FI wiring harness wire from
the brain to a wire into the rear main wiring harness. This wire leads to
the fuel pump relay and is what makes the relay close.
Check that connection and make sure that the wires are plugged together
correctly."

Years ago I was preparing to leave for work in the morning only to observe a
squareback stalled out at the intersection up the street from my house.
He couldn't get it started, it had just died on him. We pushed it back to my
place to deal with later in the day. Turned out the little wire Jim spoke of
was the culprit. Car ran fine, then just stopped. At least it was an easy
fix! Hope yours is the same.

c

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