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Good news, I went to check out the ISV, looked at it and thought ,"Isn't there a leckie connection?" removed unit to find the plug had come off!! Obviously a complete twat had touched it last! :oops: :D ~I cleaned it anyway, and surprisingly enough seems to have cured my idle and slowly dropping revs problem! It's so nice when it's that simple :lol:

Good news, I went to check out the ISV, looked at it and thought ,"Isn't there a leckie connection?" removed unit to find the plug had come off!! Obviously a complete tw@t had touched it last! :oops: :D ~I cleaned it anyway, and surprisingly enough seems to have cured my idle and slowly dropping revs problem! It's so nice when it's that simple :lol:

Actually go here http://www.partsforaudi.co.uk/ and search wiper relay, they're £19.56 +vat.

I'll give the ISV a clean then, easy enough! It's just had a new cable which stopped it sticking at any random point between 2-4k! I shall prevail!!

Thing is Halfrauds will charge you twice as much as say German and Swedish!

you can buy the intermittent relays for around £25? GPC may do them or the chaps that did the lupo wiper group-buy? seen them somewhere!

9 years 6 months, spent some money on it over the years but i don't wanna let it go. I'd lose out and someone else would get a bargain!!! No way!!

I think it's Haynes manual that mentions 80k

In that case I just need flusted to tell me about the hole he had drilled in his butterfly 'to aid throttle on/off transitions' and hopefully that'll fix my idle being high sometimes as well. That will be a result, two birds with one stone and all that, with a bit of luck :roll:

I think I see what you're saying there, the hole reduces the suction effect of the manifold allowing the butterfly to shut. In that case, what size was the hole and whereabouts was it drilled?? If this is all I have to do to fix the problem I'll be well happy :D Cheers

1990 1.8 16v with a webber redline single butterfly throttle body, panel filter and stainless exhaust, no other mods.

yes mate, got a bracket for that, that's fine!. The idle is stable in that it doesn't hunt about and isn't lumpy, it just doesn't always drop to 1000rpm. if I get out and pop the bonnet i can just move the quadrant that extra half a knats cock that seats the butterfly properly closed. As i recall i had a mate look at it as i killed the engine and it seats as the manifold vacuum drops! Like the running engine is holding it off somehow? Seems daft to me, I'll have another check today after I've driven to my brothers, seems to happen more when it's hot. Cheers

When I take my foot off the accelerator the revs seem to hang on and drop quite slowly. I've changed the throttle cable and the actual throttle body returns quickly enough but the revs don't!! :x Could it be an injector problem? I'm assuming that it has to be something after the TB, although I do also have a 'not completely closing' issue with that, but the idle revs only stick at around 1200-1500 max. My problem is that it sounds like I can't bloody drive and leave my foot on the peddle at gear-changes, which I don't! Dammit! :censored:

I've got a Webber Redline throttle body fitted, same size as the fabled Firebreather, but it's got 924 stamped on the actuator arm, so i think it's same as fitted to 2 litre porsche 924. When I fitted it, the spring was dead light so I used a small bungie cord to give it some feel and help it return to idle, but it always seemed to stick a little and left me having to blip it 'a la chav' at junctions. :oops: I changed the throttle cable as it was also sticking at various other revs and found a few broken strands on the old one that were catching - sorted! But no! :x Sticking throught the range was sorted, but idle was still ar$e. I finally bit the bullet the other day, took off the TB and had a look. I thought that when I polished it a bit, prior to fit, that I could have made it too good a fit as it closed thus holding it off closing completely, so I carefully took a piece of emery paper to the butterfly and chamferred it to reduce the friction. At the same time I cleaned the oily residue from the butterfly and the body 'down-stream' as it were. Suffice to say it cured it for awhile but it's doing the same thing again. I'm wondering if the oil vapour heading up the breather pipe is gumming up my butterfly valve and causing it to stick? Doesn't seem likely to me but the motor's done 162k, piston rings could probably be better! :roll: I don't know whether I should source a stronger spring or simply redirect the breather pipe as kevHaywire mentioned in flusted's diy catch tank thread. Or both! Where could I get the spring from for instance? It is starting to pee me off a bit! I dunno how to do the piccy thing but on flusted's webber firebreather thread mine is the bottom pictured TB which incidentally operates the opposite way to the standard TB , opens anti-clockwise looking down on it. Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated!!!!

I was always under the impression that the fuel filters should be changed every 80k, on valvers anyhow!

8) Good news Phil. You gonna get it re-rolling roaded and see the improvement on the 47 or whatever BHP it had before!! :wink:

Yeah i've used Nick, sound as a pound, he's a one man band so may not be able to answer the phone straight off! I got his number out of Performance VW and tried him when my gearbox lost 5th about 4 years ago. I ended up getting him to do all my new suspension and powerflex bushes, and sort out a couple of problems. He's also given me advice over the phone that was bang on too. Very approachable bloke. Hope this helps 8)

I've had a Vipertech kit, bought from Venom, on for 3 years or so and i've not had any problems at all, they've a lifetime warranty too. -40mm was around £280 i think. We can't all afford £5-600!!!

he's still gonna get nailed for the actual Speeding and no insurance though ain't he!

centainly looks a bargain for a 1000 quid!

Im meant All the wiper bits for £70 from VAG is amazing. :lol:

And the wipers all in for £70!!! :shock: VAG :shock:

Don't know how many volts but i got a similiar shock off my old renault adjusting an HT lead :roll: avec engine running, with other hand on strut brace, and it went right across my chest :oops: which could have been bad! :lol: Good job the amperage is low. On aircraft jet engines you're looking at 1500-2000 amps, which would ruin your day! :shock:

I'd have gone with the same selection as BigTartanJudge, some surprises there then!!

The uprated loom uses the old wiring to 'switch on' the new loom's relays, as i understand it, so you'll still need to fix the old problem.