curt93t/t
11-09-2020, 04:37 PM
So I took my daughter out in the 96TT on Saturday to an empty parking lot to teach her to drive a stick. We are driving around for about 30 minutes (total drive time about 45 minutes) and head over to a friend's house to pick up a metal detector. Turn the car off and it had an off smell, but chalked it off to only putting about 300 miles the past year. Get back in and the car doesn't want to start. It's turning over but nothing, but then it sputters to life and chokes out. It's almost acting like it's out of gas, so I call the wife and have her come over with some gas. I put some in and nothing, but figure I've fouled up the plugs now so leave the car there.
Come back the next day and try to crank and nothing, so I pull #1 and #5 and no fuel. I pull the line going to the fuel rail and turn it over and no gas coming out. I check the relays and feel them clicking, so they're good. I can't hear the fuel pump, so I run home and pull the unit from my 93TT (good having the same car) and I slave it in and it spins, so I know it's getting juice. I remove the nuts and pull the pump assembly up a little and have friend bump the starter and I hear the pump this time. I always thought you just turned the key to ign and the pump started, but you have to be cranking? Anyway, I ask her to hit it again and the car cranked right up and purred like a kitten.
Put it back together and drove it around for about 20 minutes and it started sputtering again and I had to push the accelerator down when slowing so the engine didn't die. At speed if I gave it more than a little bit of gas it bucked and sputtered. Took me about 10 minutes to get home and as I pulled into my drive it starting running normal again. What the heck?
Come back the next day and try to crank and nothing, so I pull #1 and #5 and no fuel. I pull the line going to the fuel rail and turn it over and no gas coming out. I check the relays and feel them clicking, so they're good. I can't hear the fuel pump, so I run home and pull the unit from my 93TT (good having the same car) and I slave it in and it spins, so I know it's getting juice. I remove the nuts and pull the pump assembly up a little and have friend bump the starter and I hear the pump this time. I always thought you just turned the key to ign and the pump started, but you have to be cranking? Anyway, I ask her to hit it again and the car cranked right up and purred like a kitten.
Put it back together and drove it around for about 20 minutes and it started sputtering again and I had to push the accelerator down when slowing so the engine didn't die. At speed if I gave it more than a little bit of gas it bucked and sputtered. Took me about 10 minutes to get home and as I pulled into my drive it starting running normal again. What the heck?