Likewise, fingers crossed for you... keep us updated.

Have a great Christmas in the meantime!!

No, friend of mine in the US is restoring one that came factory fitted.

Thought I'd include a couple of before n after shots of the 2B5 for you. It was in an awful varnished up state when I sent it off to Bromyard, Looked almost new when John had worked his magic...

Good point GT_II - I didn't know the 2B5 was a semi-automatic choke! Every days a school day...

I see 7zap website is now charging to see the part numbers.

I took the easy (but mildly expensive) route and sent the Pierburg off to 'John" @ Bromyard VW for a full refurbish. He's perhaps thee best in the UK for this. He then kept GLAdis for a month while removing the Webber and sorting out a whole bunch of other issues in the engine bay as a result of ...

I went with Plan B. Never looked back!

Great news!

Sounds like your doing all the right things... I gave GLAdis to a classic car restorer to change the fuel tank, hoses and hard fuel lines also as I didn't have a full car lift at the time. They did it in a day.

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A US part from a Gti


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Any working condition considered...

Yes, you can get the plastic spray covers for the 8v. I have one but never fitted it as it wasn't the source of the contamination for me.

Great collection, surprising to see a GTi in the mix... 09m 13s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZXjUGBVKdw

Do the hard fuel lines under the car - not too difficult. That's where all my rust was hiding...

This sounds a bit like bits of rust, crud, etc. in the tank. These gradually get sucked up round the filter on the end of the pick up after driving for a while, resulting in lack of power/throttle response. Stopping often allows this obstruction to drop back to the bottom of the tank, but to recur ...