1983 Golf MK1 GTI Tintop 1800 DX - Strange Electrical fault! Help!!!

Hi,Hope you can help?

Golf MK1 GTI 1983 Campaign 1800 DX Engine.


I have been desperately trying to get my car started for the summer.

I seem to have a developed a very strange electrical fault with my fuel metering head which I had just replaced thinking that I had a stuck piston barrel in the distributor body.

Whilst trying to get my car started yesterday.  The car initially started, warmed up and ran for a minute or two, then cut out.I tried several attempt to restart her and she refused.I disconnected the wires from the coil, placed relay 17 upside down in the fuse box where the fuel pump relay lives and removed fuel injector number one and placed away. Just to see if a fuel mist spray would come out through the injector.No fuel came out,

I removed the key from the ignition and a few seconds later I noticed the injector start to spray one small jet, then another jet and started to constantly dribble small amounts of fuel. When I touched the fuel distributor and fuel lines I could feel them vibrating/pulsing, as if they were on

For safety I removed the positive wire from the battery and it still continued to pulse,

Only once I removed the negative wire and a the fuel distributor stopped.

Any ideas what would cause such a strange fault?