mark 1 gti prob.! please help

[lurber]

dudes just got a 1983 gti mk1 and im having a few probs.
NUMBER 1, when pulling away it jumps/studders a tiny bit, the bloke i got it from said it was fine till he ran out of petrol the day b4 i picked it up( a load of bull if you ask me) but when you get to 2000 revs it runs fine. i think it could be the fuel pump may be?

also does anybody know where i can get parts/spares from need parcel shelf,front door cards, gti steering wheel, etc

[gibby]

He's probably telling the truth to be fair. My guess is that you've got a rusty filler neck (common problem) so the rust falls into the petrol tank and then when you run out of petrol it sucks all the gunk and sh1te up through the fuel system. Do a search for filler neck in this section and see what you can find. I'm not sure how easy it is to get all the rust particles out of the fuel system. I'm not sure why it only judders up to 2000 revs and then it's fine though.

You can get parts from this guy http://www.golfmk1.co.uk/ and if you've got a mk1 then this is also a very good site http://www.vwgolfmk1.org.uk/

[[han]]

yeah common fault.

[dubhighland]

got a 4 button gti steeringwheel £10 and black door cards £15 if your interested postage would be about £8.cheers

[lurber]

hi mate i will have the steering wheel and door cards. how do you want payment, pay pal,cheque , or what ever. cheers marc 07766401813

[dino]

You can buy a new filler neck for about £40 and they are quite easy to fit, once you have drained the tank of petrol you can get into the tank from under the back seat just take the panel off, then you get a long magnet and fish out the rust bits.

I had this problem on my mk1 cabby once i did this it ran perfect.

hope this helps

[rubjonny]

Unfortunatly the fuel inlet on the fuel pump is right at the bottom of the fuel tank without a filter, so the 1st thing to suffer is the fuel pump!  Get under the car and you'll see an L shaped hose to the pump, be very carefull undoing this as they are NLA and not easy to find!  Once off look at the connection on the pump, sometimes the pumps have a wee mesh filter here which gets full of crap, carefully remove it and clean out all the junk.  Next blow the pipe through and reconnect the lot.

Oh and be ready becasue once disconnected all the fuel will come out, have a big bolt to block the hose or something

Once you've done that and replaced the filler neck if it is indeed rusted, get a magnet with a length of string attached to it, and drop it into the fuel tank.  Drive it for a week, pull the magnet & clean it, droip it back in and repeat till the magnet is clean!

If you lift up the rear seat you'll see a round plate under there, take this off to gain access to the fuel level sender, pop that out and drop the magnet in there