hard starting 90q

[Mitchell S. Haskins]

Sounds like a vaccuum leak to me.  As stated by Paul, check your vaccuum
lines for cracks/splits on the underside, and check your gaskets.

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Paul Heneghan
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:29 AM
To: 'quattro at audifans.com'; 'gthack at geog.ucl.ac.uk'
Subject: Re: hard starting 90q


Hello Graham,

I had all the symptoms you describe on my 80q when a vacuum hose fell off (I
can't remember which one - I vaguely remember it going onto the inlet
manifold and being about 15 to 20mm diameter).  It's happened me twice now.

Paul

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:22:29 +0100 (BST)
From: Graham Thackrah <gthack at geog.ucl.ac.uk>

>Cheers in advance for any advice, my UK 85 90q (US 4kq +/-) stalled whilst
>idling the other day and has since been hard/impossible to start.
...
>When the car does start, after much
>cranking, it stumbles badly when you blip the throttle, rather than
>depressing it gradually. It idles fine though and if you do depress the
>throttle gradually it will run fine up to high revs. If you shut it down
>and try to restart immediately it will fire up fine, leave it for a while
>and it gets harder.



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