PART 3
All you need is a spark, an air/fuel mixture and compression. Suck, squeeze, bang, blow and bosch - a running engine. Well that’s the theory, anyway. Let’s see whether we can match it up with the practice. Our 1989 VW Jetta GTI is the later 16-valve version, so it’s well worth getting it. up and running, because with 136bhp and 1231b.ft of torque it should have absolutely no problem keeping up with modern traffic. But first we need to put a fuel tank in it.
It did come with one fitted, obviously, but the steel wire that holds the float onto the petrol gauge sender unit had rusted through while the car was laid up, and the float was rattling around in the bottom of the tank. I would quite happily have flushed out the tank
