verylongdrive
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I was running 2 bottles of LM Diesel purge (5/16" ID hose and a Fram fuel filter on the input line, as recommended, and 5/16" OD hose for the return line) while driving around town, calculating that I'd have at least 2-3" left in the bottle when gettign back home.
Just before turning onto our street, it shuddered twice. I figured I must be running out of fluid after all, and pushed in the clutch to coast around the turn. A moment later( before even turning) the battery light came on the steering was hard, so it had stalled right after pushing the clutch in. I coasted and then pushed it the rest of the way home, in case the just-in-case tools I had with me weren't enough to prime the pump.
Home, I found that I was far from dry (2" as expected). I tried to start it up, and could see fuel (DP, that is) moving in my temp. lines, but it will not run. (I then sucked fuel out the return line for good measure and hooked the filter etc. back up, and it makes no difference.)
It seems to fire a little, a sort of fire-crank-fire-crank-fire-crank-... noise until I give up. It sounds vaguely like when the anti-shudder valve is actuated by VAG-com to turn off the engine.
EDIT: cranking it again now, it may just be the usual cranking-unsuccessfully soun, such as when the glowplugs haven't been on long enough.
Despite the temperature, nothing is gelled up, and now that everything is cold, the glowplug light comes/stays on the way it should (does that rule out relay 109?).
The anti-shudder valve (fragile black arm that turns axle behind EGR 90 degrees) is not stuck, as far as can be seen by turning it on the outside.
What else would cause this? IS there and immobilizer of soem sort? This is an early-ish '01 (mk 20 ABS instead of the later mk 60).
I have recently bought a VAG-com, but have very little experience with it.
Is there anything of use it can see when the car is not even running?
EDIT: I read the codes, yielding only 0380 (glowplug circuit; intermittent, which I knew); I don't really know what else to look for. Injection quantity-actual looked similar enough to IQ-requested. an "engine start" field in the instruments says "permitted", so I guess the engine isn't intentionally being choked.
I'm quite out of ideas.
?
Just before turning onto our street, it shuddered twice. I figured I must be running out of fluid after all, and pushed in the clutch to coast around the turn. A moment later( before even turning) the battery light came on the steering was hard, so it had stalled right after pushing the clutch in. I coasted and then pushed it the rest of the way home, in case the just-in-case tools I had with me weren't enough to prime the pump.
Home, I found that I was far from dry (2" as expected). I tried to start it up, and could see fuel (DP, that is) moving in my temp. lines, but it will not run. (I then sucked fuel out the return line for good measure and hooked the filter etc. back up, and it makes no difference.)
It seems to fire a little, a sort of fire-crank-fire-crank-fire-crank-... noise until I give up. It sounds vaguely like when the anti-shudder valve is actuated by VAG-com to turn off the engine.
EDIT: cranking it again now, it may just be the usual cranking-unsuccessfully soun, such as when the glowplugs haven't been on long enough.
Despite the temperature, nothing is gelled up, and now that everything is cold, the glowplug light comes/stays on the way it should (does that rule out relay 109?).
The anti-shudder valve (fragile black arm that turns axle behind EGR 90 degrees) is not stuck, as far as can be seen by turning it on the outside.
What else would cause this? IS there and immobilizer of soem sort? This is an early-ish '01 (mk 20 ABS instead of the later mk 60).
I have recently bought a VAG-com, but have very little experience with it.
Is there anything of use it can see when the car is not even running?
EDIT: I read the codes, yielding only 0380 (glowplug circuit; intermittent, which I knew); I don't really know what else to look for. Injection quantity-actual looked similar enough to IQ-requested. an "engine start" field in the instruments says "permitted", so I guess the engine isn't intentionally being choked.
I'm quite out of ideas.
?
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