peirburg carb on mk2 1L polo

The weber kits are very good, but not cheap.

One carb I only ever had trouble with was the 2B3 (I think) on the Favorit. The day after I got it, I filled it at an unfamiliar petrol station after it had been standing a while.

Fine driving to work, but coming home would idle, would run on WOT, but wouldn't go easily on part throttle. Had to floor it and slip/dump the clutch. Not much good on an unknown quantity car, in rush hour stop start on the M602. Turns out the first barrel main jet had clogged with crud after standing or from the "unknown" fuel. AA man knew straight away, took him 20 minutes to whip it apart, blow it through and have me on my way. Never had a problem after that.

dont suppose you know what other type/make of carb would mate with the current manifold lol, im sure the replacement one i was given is slowly bogging off too. sometimes cutting/stalling out when clutch is dipped. sometimes stutters but dont die.

There's a weber replacement that come with the adaptor plate required. Try

Otherwise, buy the haynes carb book and strip/clean what you have.

If you know what you are doing, and cen get the parts cheap enough, there is nothing wrong with the pierburg on the Scirocco. Usually the parts and labour to pay someone to fix it is silly though, and some of the parts alone can be pricey, which is why so many have Weber kits fitted, including mine. The Weber has less to go wrong, and back when Golf 2s and sciroccos weren't banger-money cars, the 160-200 quid for the weber kit that anyone could fit in a morning was a good bet.

Have you for certain checked that the base isn't warped and letting air in at idle and over weakening the mix? Should have a thick rubber base plate if the Favorit was anything to go by. Also, maybe try a Ford Weber carb (they fit rear engined skoda manifolds, and so the Favorit Pierburgs)DCD or DGAV maybe but it will need serious rejetting to work on that small an engine. DCD was used on 1.3 and 1.5 engines. DGAV was used on 1.6 and two litres.

Yup there is a slab of rubber it sits on and yes, the base was checked and is not warped. It was just spitting up out of top of carb and bubbling, lots of fuel. I have took float out and put in a jar of fuel, for a week, and it not sunk. or sloshes inside it. so thats my theory of a bust floater(sinker) out the window.

Thats weird then. This any use (among the diatribe).