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I.C.E & Electrical / just a few wiring issues if anyone can shed light please
Hey all, finally completed "well loosely speaking" the restoration on my barn find, engine  pulled and replaced now all running, replaced many things on strip down i found broken, or damaged. now i'm pretty much all back together, i have found and not limited to of course. but what i have found so far

CE1 CAR

1. green indicator glow on dash, this did go away, think eddy peck pointed me in right direction last time, with hazard switch but no luck tapping and unplugging and plugging it back in this time. but hazards and indicators work fine otherwise im sure last time something odd was happening. Also confident the green glow only arrived again today

2. i have an issue that if i use my aux power in the ashtray "playing with simple things today it actually charges my phone, but wouldn't power the tyre pump yesterday", it triggers the wipers off all round regardless of powering my phone and not powering a pump

3. the wipers work back and front, rear wash jet works correctly, the front how ever sometimes works, but when it does , it will blow the fuse pretty much instantly, if not instantly anyway with out the pump buzzing, i must fess i put a 30 amp fuse in, which solved issue for 5 whole seconds then popped



During the restoration i found a broken pin on the fuse box, so sourced another one, having now chucked old one, i cant use it to test wipers and aux point, but i could be clutching at this one being faulty.

But i think i used aux when i had the old fuse box plugged in still to pump tyres up, i could be just dreaming that happened, again could be thinking it, trying sub consciously telling myself fusebox is at fault  for the sake of it

So if any one can shed light, share there views on this situation, point me in a direction to try something. even if its remotely silly but pluasable
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Mk2 Golf Chat / door lock passenger side
ok so this weekend, my jetta door lock decided to duck me off and fail "drivers side" after fitting new locks and waiting on heritage for over 7 months. lasted all of 3 weeks grrrr. But even the old lock and new lock, including on my golf, the passenger side lock only locks the door and doesn't unlock with the key. if it had i could of just opened it that side and reached across etc

now my question is, how do i remedy this, this cant be right surely and correct??

all the mech appears free and work correctly with the handle off the car
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Mk2 Golf Chat / Upgraded exhaust advice
Hey all,

i brought the stainless steel 4-1 manifold, the one from ebay. How ever unlike the standard one, it doesn't have the little bit of heat shield on it, assuming to reduce the heat source under the main wiring loom across the top of the bulkhead

Now do i ignore it, fit the manifold and forget about it ?

or is worth wrapping the manifold down to heat shield would of been, and when stationary the heat just raises upto the loom any way. now perhaps slightly hotter due the nature of a wrap.

or wrap the loom as someone else suggested, so heat doesn't transfer in to it

hoping some one else has thought about this and can offer advice,

1.8 gti 8v engine
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Mk2 Golf Chat / mk2 jetta boot is always seems damp
As titled really, i changed the boot lid seal, i thought things was improving, but i just feel it is anymore. couple of times in the last month seems every time i open the boot there's just as much condensation as there was before now

Anyone got any ideas, even suffered this as well ?

could be that it still needs to dry out, but when i changed the seal i cant say the old one was all that bad. how ever did seem like it was leaking all the same
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Engine & Gearbox / Re: idling issues 2e3 carb
many many thanks for taking your time to respond, i am as of yet still awaiting a chance to take alook, however speaking to you an a mate, slightly more confident the webber doesnt need be to ordered now, hope this tuesday to get to the bottom of it

the vid link was good
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Engine & Gearbox / Re: idling issues 2e3 carb
yh its not cutting out instantly, its dying back ok from throttle release, kinda spits and sputters on idle, an sometimes just can't cope, was alot better a few days ago, then during the last 80 ish miles. Well almost just will not catch the idle at all, an just splutters its self to death more then half the time now, i can hold the idle with a light bit of throttle. but of course this is not achiveable everytime your pulling up.

i'm not sure what to do. Becuase ok, i might not be spotting the cheapest service kit @£100 ish but from experience you can't really just pull them apart with out replacing something, how ever maybe a good start after i clean the oil covered plugs on the front flange "not quite sure thats the fix but needs doing and rocker cover needs addressing aswell" to then if no different pull carb apart even if i find nothing wrong with it, at least i didn't just waste £100 towards the cost of  a webber

But i like the line "A weber is only a 'solution' if the carb is knackered"

The car has not covered a lot of miles in the last 15 years till i brought it, in fact i've possibly done more miles in 10 days then the last owner in 15 years, so no doubt a lot of crap has been pulled threw into the bowl, an reving it is some how over coming the fuel starvation its presenting to be

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Engine & Gearbox / idling issues 2e3 carb
Hey all,

Got a 1.3 jetta recently, i believe its the 2e3 carb hence auto choke an not manual, i've done a lovely 400 mile trip in it, last 80 ish have been a nightmare, the thing would just keep cutting out, started doing it at night with lights on an fan, so noticed on restarts was idling fine when no load on electric system, so i assumed it was a battery or alternator issue at 1st "perhaps still a leccy gremlin". but started doing it in the day with no added power consumption etc

what i would like to know is, has anyone ever had something similar, as previous knowledge was they cut out and dont restart for a short while, an a quick google hints towards this 

given its a peirburg. i always known there as useful as a chocolate teapot in reality an webber is the way forward "personally when i had a 1.6 an a 1.8 carb engine mine had the webber conversion done already, not that i recall a choke nearly 20 years later. but never had any issues, an mot time always see emissions adjusted to pass"

how ever, over last day or so i have read a few posts webbers solve nothing in the long term, how true is this ?

i really want to keep it as a 1.3. its guttless but its so original be a shame to do a conversion really

ok so it be next week before i look at it, but a quick look did see a small bit of oil on 2 sensors on the top flange on the block under the dizzy, but could this lead to my issues ?


any knowledge will be greatfully recieved
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Other Problems / Re: 1991 3dr - water leak under drivers door
Noticing this post the other day. Decided i best do something about mine, as it is the kid next door knocked my door asking if they can fish it. Honestly this last week we had nonstop rain. So i just went to take door card off, bottom half of it was soaked threw, an surprise surprise some dubber been in there an removed the membrane, poor bucket of water on the ouside, just pours striaght in,


honestly why do some people touch things an think its ok to not put it back how they found it