[T3] type3-vwtype3.org Digest, Vol 107, Issue 11

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Today's Topics:

  1. Diagnosis help for a badly running 1971 VW 411 (Jens Vagelpohl)


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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 12:24:35 -0500
From: Jens Vagelpohl <jens at type4.org>
To: "org type3 at vwtype3.org" <type3 at vwtype3.org>
Subject: [T3] Diagnosis help for a badly running 1971 VW 411
Message-ID: <7E9F9F87-EF4A-454F-9B3C-AD262E2D53D8 at type4.org>
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Hi all, hi Jim,

Not directly Type 3 but closely related in this case.

I?m currently looking at a very low mileage all original 1971 VW 411. Original engine, original fuel injection. The car itself is in beautiful shape otherwise and I took at 2.5 hour flight yesterday with money in hand, my plan was to complete the purchase and drive back to Fort Worth where I currently live. Unfortunately, the seller had not fully explained how badly it runs right now and I had no choice but to leave and fly back. The seller wants to do more diagnostic work, he has been working off some Bosch guides and the Harold Glenn guide to test individual components, but there?s obviously something he hasn?t hit yet.

I am hoping for some input about likely causes and troubleshooting strategies for the following:

- starts up pretty willingly, but idle too low and stumbling
- constant backfiring into the intake when I push down on the accellerator
- no power when driving, I think I got it up to 50
- backfiring doesn?t change much as the engine gets warmer
- keeping the accellerator in one position, inclucing all the way down, causes more backfiring than actual speed increase
- the only way to get accelleration for split seconds is to ?pump? the acellerator, by backing up and pushing down carefully, at that moment the engine runs well and accellerates for a sub-second period, and then returns to the no-power situation.

These issues apparently developed over the last year or so, the owner told me when he had the car first it would cruise at 75 on the freeway without issue. He has already replaced the fuel pump and verified with a pressure gauge that there is no fuel pressure issue. He also replaced the injectors and all fuel lines. On the ignition side he did the points, plugs, plug wires and coil. Oil is changed and valves are adjusted.

Any help is highly appreciated. If the car wasn?t located just over 4 hours from Jim I would already try to bribe him into going there to look at it ;-)

jens






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