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Progressively Worse No Start Condition (what next?) 200 1981

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you have a couple problems.

First, I'm quite shocked that you'd have problems with a K-Jet car. So many people seem to have invincible K-Jetronic equipped cars... now that the laughing has died off... I'll offer a more serious suggestion. Lots of things could cause a poor cold start. K-Jet is rediculously complex. But the things I'd check would be the various check valves, the accumulator, and the cold start system (thermal time switch, coolant temp sensor, and cold start injector). Does it show that I don't like K-Jet and don't believe the people who claim it's just trouble free and never ever needs work? Gah.

Anyways. My guess for your current situation is that your timing belt has broken. If your engine is turning over rapidly, you've got little or no compression. A broken timing belt would cause this. So would cylinder walls that have been washed down with fuel (i.e. if you had an ignition problem and kept trying to start the car.. and kept dumping fuel into the engine).

Easy to check. Pop the oil cap and crank the engine over. If the cam moves, your timing belt is probably okay. If it doesn't, your belt is broken. If it smells like gas.. change your oil ASAP and then maybe dump some oil into the cylinders and turn the engine over by hand (22mm socket for the crank pulley in this case).

- alex

'85 244 Turbo
'84 245 Turbo






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