Not Starting?

Hi
My 1985 Golf GTI cab injection stalled on Monday whilst parking on my drive and I've not been able to start it again since?
Seems like a fuel or perhaps an electrical problem but cant figure out what!
The engine turns and sounds like its going to start.

Things I've checked:

- Fuel pump is working ok and I have fuel to the fuel distributor
- I have spark
- Relays seem to work ok i can hear the fuel pump and the click of the relay
- sprayed easy start and it wants to go
- When left for 10-15 mins and you try and start it seems like it wants to start but then just dies but the engine still turns

Prior to this problem its been running fine and starts first time every time.

Any help would be much appreciated.
 

Do all 4 spark plugs spark?
What colour are the plugs?
How old is the rotor arm, dissy cap and HT leads

All plugs spark
I have a good spark light blueish in colour
All reasonably new, leads, arm and cap changed the leads earlier this year.

It was running fine just stalled and then cant start?
It hadnt been sat then either.

I suggest that you check your timing marks.

finger on the tranny to 0tdc
dimple on back of cam even with the plane of the valve cover tin not the rebar.

Dizzy rotor in the middle of the hash.  Knowing it is in time is the easiest thing.

I had one of my 90's not start.

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The timing is definitely out.
The rotar arm is facing completely the opposite when pulleys are lined to TDC



Can the the timing go out that quickly?
I just stalled it and the problem began was running fine just a second before.



 

put the cap back and swap the plug leads see if it starts the fix why it has gone 180 out

If the tension isn't correct then the belt can slip. In a perfect world, the Bentley states that you should align pulley marks for the intermediate shaft timing.

In reality it is easier to remove the Cap off the dist and then rotate the intermediate shaft to position the middle of the rotor to the hash stamped on the frame of the Dizzy, than to guess that it was in the correct place to begin with.

Your 180 degrees out, keep turning the engine by hand  till the timing marks line up again and the rotor arm should be facing the engine.

Hi just a quick update on this so perhaps it can help others.
My fuel filter was blocked! So no fuel was getting through properly.
Now running perfectly fine.
Thanks for your help guys 

Never know a fuel filter get blocked, how old was it?

Any problem with the fuel filler neck?

Yes the filter was old ive never changed it but only had the car a couple of years now.
There was no fuel getting through but fuel was came through when i changed the filter. And seems to run perfectly now.
 

Good to hear it's running, I would change the fuel filter every couple of years.

Check the fuel filler neck by removing the filler cap and shine a torch down there, any holes or rust is not good news.