Engine cuts out within seconds of starting!!!!!!!!!!

[AJH1973]

Hope someone can help me again!! This time it's the engine!
The car starts fine but then if I try to accelerate it dies straight away. If I leave it idling it will idle for about 5 secs and then just die. I did have a few bits off the car last weekend, air box and air hose to the inlet manifold but as I say the car starts absolutely fine and runs smoothly before it cuts out??

Any ideas on what it could be??

[aj_golf]

id say it was ur fuel!

is it injected or carb?

if injected check ur petrol pump

if its carb might jus be sh!tted up so jus clean it up....

[AJH1973]

Sorry should have put that in my original post!

It's 1.8 8v GTI . Don't think it's fuel pump as I can hear it kick it and it fires up and runs smoothly - although I suppose it might do this even with a duff fuel pump.

[mattkh]

Any ideas on what it could be??

Hi
Put up a few pictures of the hoses at the back of the air box.

[AJH1973]

Had a bit more of a search on other threads and looks the issue may well be a leak somewhere so I'm going to take all the pipes off and give them all a good check- put it back together and keep my fingers crossed!!!

If this doesn't work I'll take some photos and pop them on here.

[daniel-1986]

check ur fuses as  i had the autochoke fuse blow causing the same thing but mines a carbed engine but worth a check

[AJH1973]

Problem solved- re-traced all the bits and bobs I took off last weekend and found that the MAF lead wasn't fully home!!!!!! Next problem is I have got steam coming through the air vents when on max heat- looks like next w/e will be new heater matrix