The “timing belt” issue is the alternator water pump belt. Just stopped at the auto parts store and got one, $16. Guy at the counter used to work for the stealer down the road, says he’s rebuilt a coupla these engines. Got his name and number.
She ran the battery down and it quit, also probably overheated, don’t know how bad. Noticed a little water bubbling from the head gasket on pass side. Car starts and runs and drives fine, a little cranky on cold start and yeah seems to idle a bit high. Everything very clean though. Has some kind of weird hot rod air filter on it, will need to source a proper filter setup. I’ll get pics when I get home. --R Sent from iPhone > On Apr 21, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 77 is probably K-Jet or KE-Jet (my 75 Audi Fox was K-Jet). > > Couple funky idle drop down servos and lots of hoses -- all of which have to > be completely sealed for it to run right. KE-Jet has a "frequency valve" to > control the mixture in the double chamber fuel distributor, and they can be a > pain. Essentially a modified fuel injector. > > Once you get it all sorted out, it's great. Only trouble I had with my Fox > in the fuel system was a bad injector causing lumpy idle and the fact that > blowby would freeze in the venturi and flood it out in bitter cold weather. > It was disconnected when I got it, and stayed that way after I figured that > out. Had a fuel pump fail, otherwise very trouble free. > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
