This post has nothing to do with battery or starter related problems. It’s only pertinent to fuel injected buses (mainly, but it in general, is applicable to virtually every single internal combustion reciprocating engine, including all VW’s) with intermittent starting problems where the car starts fine, runs fine, then you turn it off, run into a store or buy gas, come out and it won’t start, but it cranks and cranks and cranks – just won’t start. Then after 30 […]

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The key will work.

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You’ve  probably read in some manual for VW’s about how to adjust the clutch. It goes something like “Turn the nut on the end of the cable to achieve 10 or 20 millimeters of free movement (play) at the clutch pedal.” WRONG!! The result you’re really trying to achieve is to obtain the smallest possible distance between the release bearing and the clutch pressure plate. When the engine is running, the pressure plate is turning. In a properly adjusted clutch, […]

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