Is it the TPS?

[kneale at knitknacks.com]

MM is a Samco with the fancy clamps, but I'll check 'em out.  I'll also try
a pressure check to look for leakages.

Original Message:
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From: Phil Rose pjrose at frontiernet.net
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 15:27:19 -0400
To: kneale at knitknacks.com, 200q20v at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Is it the TPS?


Possibly TPS, but also consider possibility of a torn hose or loose 
clamp--suddenly "letting go" at some level of boost pressure. I 
assume your car is chipped? Have you looked closely at the throttle 
boot lately? A tear (near the edge of the clamp on the inner side you 
can't see easily) caused a similar symptom in my car. I detected the 
source of the leak with a pressure tester. Also, a split Michelin Man 
hose can sometimes "burp" suddenly when near the max boost pressure.

Phil

At 12:05 PM -0400 8/9/09, kneale at knitknacks.com wrote:
>I've been mashing the accelerator pedal of my 200q20v Avant and enjoying
>the results ever since getting it rolling again a couple years ago.
>
>Yesterday, after a night of very heavy rains, I experienced a really heavy,
>jerking, scary hesitation when I had the foot to the floor.
>
>I can run the engine up to near red line by slowly advancing the
>accelerator pedal as long as I don't go to WOT.  Sounds, runs normally.
>But hit the floorboard and I get this horrendously heavy jerking like the
>engine cuts out completely.  It's worse than the A/C clutch spike I got on
>my 200q20v sedan before the Audi mod was performed.
>
>Would this result from a bad throttle position switch?


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