Hmmm, a flame thrower as a trouble shooting tool. Why didn't I think of
that?  I would go ahead and CHANGE the TEMPII sensor.

Good Luck and Drive Safely
Ken Lewis
86 Crewcab, 60 356 T-5
http://Neksiwel.20m.com/

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:34:02 -0400 Kenneth Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
writes:
> I have a customers 89 Cabriolet that I am trying to troubleshoot.  It
> is a
> Digifant II.  It will start and then immediately die.  It acts like
> the
> engine is flooding out.  One wierd thing that it does is if you heat
> the
> coolant temp sensor (tempII) with a flame the car will run.  However
> the
> temp sensor checks out OK when I check it with a meter, and also at
> the
> wiring harness plug.  I have checked the timing, spark, fuel
> pressure (seems
> a little lower than stock but only 4 psi low) and the engine wiring
> harness.
> Everything seems to be right but the car still won't run.  Any
> ideas?  Is
> there a way to get a code out of the DigifantII ECU?  The car has a
> code
> machine connector by the shifter but I can't get my vag-com software
> to
> communicate with this ECU.  Any advice would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> http://www.vanagain.com
> Phone: (856)-327-4936
> Fax: (856)-327-2242
>
>

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