On Thu, 10 May 2001, Patrick Austin wrote: > My '91 16v GTI is pinging since I put in the new distributer. It did it > before, too, but not quite as badly. I timed it as well as I could, but > the idle is uneven right now and getting it just-right is difficult. It'll > ping lightly pretty much constantly if you're accelerating hard in 3rd, 4th > or 5th. Is the knock sensor not doing its job??? How does the knock > sensor work in the motronic cars? >
Stupid question, but did you fix your timing after putting in the new distributor? and you should only hear pinging for about half a second to two seconds before the knock sensors kick in. _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
