95 Jetta wont start

[crazyonskiis]

I own a 95 jetta with a 2.0 liter engine. Yesterday it was raining pretty hard and I was driving down the road and the engine died. I initialy thought that it must be a problem with the plug wires/ cap/ rotor, or something along those lines. It's been 2 years and atleast 30,000 miles since I replaced either of those three parts. I sprayed some wd-40 around the plugs and on the cap to try and get rid of any moisture and I also removed the cap and wiped it clean, the car still wont start. It stopped raining today so I had the car towed home and checked for fuel and spark, both there. I checked the timing belt and it was a tooth off so I corrected that and checked the compression just in case, all cylinders were around 200 lbs, the car still wont start. I cleaned the spark plugs, which are fairly new and good quality, and also scraped the cap and rotor clean, no luck with that either. I've cleaned a few grounds as well as the MAF sensor. Nothing seems to work.

One thing that I did find that seems funny is, with a fuel presure guage hooked up I found that while the engine is cranking it has about 40 lbs of pressure but it doesn't hold that pressure when the engine stops. The pressure slowly seeps down. I don't know that this is even abnormal and doubt that this has anything to do with the engine starting.

Any suggestions?

[boschmann]

You're getting spark at the plugs? If so, check to see if they are wet/fuel fouled after cranking.

[crazyonskiis]

thanks for the reply. Last week I tested the spark and it wasn't strong so I replaced the coil and it started right up. I guess that the ignition on volkswagen are realy sensative and they need a strong spark to run.