rough running,,please help

[tenere]

Hi,new to the forum.

My car is a 97 R reg ,3 door silver , gti i6 valve,

How do you get the rotor arm off,,i have read on here it is glued on and needs to be broken off,,

Any advice would be apprieciated.

Thanks

[DrewGTI]

changed mine a few months ago... just pull it! not glued (well shouldn't be anyway)


comes away easy

[Deano2711]

changed mine a few months ago... just pull it! not glued (well shouldn't be anyway)


comes away easy

+1  Just give it a good pull

[harlemex]

some were glued on. Mine was. I tapped it with a light hammer and chisel and it broke off. Go steady now 

[tenere]

Hi,thanks for the help,mine was obviously glued as i ended (gently)tapping/ breaking it off.

new rotor on,new dis cap,new plugs,,,,still running bad,,it holds back under any load ,about 2500 rpm.

Any pointers would help,

thanks

[justalex81]

HT leads, coil, clean throttle body, replace all vac pipes.

[spear]

how old is your fuel filter? changed mine yesterday and has improved the running loads.

[tenere]

Hi,everybody.it used to every so often hold back but after 100 yards or worse case a mile,it would clear itself,this could happen once a week or maybe once a month.

back in July my coil went,,and the rac put a new one on,,all was well until a week after it held back

i left the car for two weeks ,drove up road and its holding back continuely,

i have owned the car from 85k to 125k and i dont think the fuel filter has been changed, its looks like a difficult job as i imagine been under the car.

[Woppit]

mmmm what engine is it? i found on my AEX the issue i had all along with random cutting out and loss of power and odd revs was caused by the unit in the intake manifold. dont knwo what it was but i replaced it and its totally fixed now
before i did that i went through coil, dizzy leads, filters, vagcom, the works ...

[Len]

Holding back?

Hmmm sounds like ECU relay to me!