Fred W wrote:
>
> Thanks to you who have given me some welcome back. It has been a
> long winter, I have done battle with the city about my "abandoned"
> '66 being an environmental hazard. I fixed their "wagen", I cleaned
> out my shop and moved the whole project inside, something I should
> have done from the start (3 years ago). I am 2/3 done, just
> metalwork on the body and then the decision to paint myself or farm
> it out.
>
> Well, my question. My youngest son, the only one of three that
shows
> automotive interest and skill has two cars. His newest is a green
> 92 Eagle-Talon (Mitsubishi origin, I think) He has done some major
> work on the engine (this kid is 19 years old) and it runs and can be
> driven. But when it is in park or neutral and warms up, the idle
> cycles up and down. Now I am a dyed-in-the-wool VW fan (although my
> Olds Silhouette gets me to work on the ice and snow and in the
> summer heat)and I do not know squat about these new-fangled
> fuel-injection systems. Several others have indicated that he may
> have a vacuum leak somewhere in that spagetti bowl behind the
> engine. Any of you good VW guys done any moonlighting with these
> kind of engines and does the vacuum leak seem a logical place to
> look? When you put a load on, (in gear, a/c on, etc) the engine
> slows down and stops surging, but when you shift into neutral or
> park, it starts surging and falling back in idle. I know this is
> taking up good VW bandwidth, but can anyone help me be a hero with
> the kid, he might be my last hope to have another gear-head in the
> family. Thanks, anyone!!
>
> Fred W.
>

Well, my question. My youngest son, the only one of three that shows
automotive interest and skill has two cars. His newest is a green
92 Eagle-Talon (Mitsubishi origin, I think) He has done some major
work on the engine (this kid is 19 years old) and it runs and can be
driven. But when it is in park or neutral and warms up, the idle
cycles up and down. Now I am a dyed-in-the-wool VW fan (although my
Olds Silhouette gets me to work on the ice and snow and in the
summer heat)and I do not know squat about these new-fangled
fuel-injection systems. Several others have indicated that he may
have a vacuum leak somewhere in that spagetti bowl behind the
engine. Any of you good VW guys done any moonlighting with these
kind of engines and does the vacuum leak seem a logical place to
look? When you put a load on, (in gear, a/c on, etc) the engine
slows down and stops surging, but when you shift into neutral or
park, it starts surging and falling back in idle. I know this is
taking up good VW bandwidth, but can anyone help me be a hero with
the kid, he might be my last hope to have another gear-head in the
family. Thanks, anyone!!

Fred W.