[vintagvw] VW ideling problems

2008-08-04 Thread Moulden
I own a '72 Volkswagon Beetle, and am having trouble with it. She runs fine once I get her going, but has trouble ideling when I first start her up, and when i stop. She wants to die at stop signs. I've checked the spark plugs and timing, and it all seems to be ok. I'm running 10% ethanol fuel

Re: [vintagvw] VW idling problems

2008-08-04 Thread marc vellat
When the carburetor is cold and the electric choke is on it's richening the mixture; since your symptoms apparently don't occur until the choke heats up and turns off I would suspect there's just not enough fuel getting in at idle. I doubt that the fuel selection has much to do with it (I run