A Womans Work

[grog]

Bought an impossible to fix VW Kombi years ago. Would never idle, revved ok but always stalled. Owner had to many shops, impossible to fix. They had a fuel cut off solenoid on carbs. Was amazing when i put oil pressure wire back on sender and cut off wire back on solenoid.

[Cykik]

Mate had a Volvo that would stall when reversing. Eventually traced fault to FI pump connector under carpet in drivers footwell.
Looking over shoulder whilst reversing your feet can change position. His heel would be pressing on pump connector, killing FI pump...

[grog]

Cykik, reminded me of another VW problem i had once. VW Type 3 wagon, every now and then throttle would stick on. I lubed every moving part over and over, checked everything i knew. Months later it stuck again. Mate barefooted was sitting in passenger side, he said, whats moving under my foot. Those cars had metal covers in foot wells, covered clutch n throttle cables. Throttle had linkage from rhs to lhs where cable hooked on to go back to carbs. Problem was when passenger put his feet down, pushed metal plate down onto linkage. At least my cables were well oiled.