Hi,

my friend has a '87 TII. He had the car for about 5 years, but hasn't driven in the car for the last 5 months. His car won't start. He says that the differential is a bit lose. Could this be the problem? Or is the engine fucked up somehow?

 

sounds like flooding, remove the egi fuse and turn over the motor for about 10-20 sec then replce it and start

Justin

 

The diffy will not have anything to do with the motor running.

Will the engine crank at all? Pull the plugs and put a bit of ATF in the chambers and then try to start it. It will smoke quite a bit so beware.

Have you tried to push start it?

 

ouch, you can't leave the engine sitting for 5 months. your seals are probably stuck. he should have either filled the engine with ATF before hand. or started it up once a week. you are going to have problems getting it to start. try putting some AFT into the spark plug holes and rotate the engine by hand a couple times around, then let it sit for a day or 2. then try to start again. just a warning, it'll smoke like hell if it starts

 

tell him I wil buy that non working car as it sits. I need parts ant things (turbo)

 

hey, you guys that are trying to un-flood your cars are doing it the hard way. By unplugging the EGI fuse, not only are you cutting the fuel, your cutting the SPARK!! Pop the hatch, and peel back your interior panel and unplug the fuel pump connector. It works much better.

 

that plug is a bitch to get to!!.

 

Oh stop whining!!! What are you doing with interior in your car anyway?? Strip that crap out and put in a roll cage!!!!

 

I live in Europe.....and if I can make it work the car is mine

 

It sounds to me like your friend stopped driving the car because of a rear end problem made it undriveable. Now its been sitting up and hard to start. Once you get the engine running, the rear end problem is still going to exist. Hope its nothing big.

 

He says the diffrential is lose. I don't have much car knowlidge, but he says only the rubber has been replaced. So I need to replace the Diff for sure. Howmuch would it cost to have it replaced? I can put a LSD unit in it right?