Hello VW people. I have been a member of Rec.Games.Pinball for several years and it's members have helped me many times. I have also been a VW owner for many years from the early air-cooled Beetle/Rabbit years and had always been able to get myself out of jams... until now. We have a 96 2.0 Jetta GL that started running like it had lost all power after a 1/4 tank of fuel was added when the tank was low. We live in NH and the weather is around freezing. I took the car out to test drive and filled the tank with fresh fuel from another fill station and the problem continued. As I was returning home the car had so little power it could barely make it up a hill. I did manage to get it home and into a heated garage and let it sit over night. I started it the next morning, took it for a quick test spin and it had plenty of power until I got about a 1/4 mile from home and the power disappeared again. Once I had it back in the driveway it died and has not started since. Now it's in the heated garage again, I dumped in some fuel anti-freeze and pulled the fuel line at the engine and cranked the engine and watched the fuel pump into a container. It did fill the quart container but not as fast as I thought it should. I also noticed the engine fire a few times and actually ran for a few seconds. I then reconnected the fuel supply line and cranked the engine again and it would not fire... weird? Removed the fuel line again and it tried to start again. Why would the motor try to start without any fuel pressure or supply? There is a vacuum diaphragm before the injectors that has a fuel line going in and out of it. What does that do? And I wonder if that had become stuck closed somehow. I did pull it and the shaft with an o-ring on it does not move at all. I'm confident the motor is okay, the ignition is good and the fuel pump is working correctly. Something seems to be shutting off the fuel to the injectors. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you, Keith
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18 years ago