Misfiring 5 cyl, what would you suspect? (Solved!)

[Jim]

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 Close, bad #3 plug wire (shorted to the plug shield).
  Avi Meron <avim at pacbell.net> wrote: Plugsssssssssssssssssss....................

Take care,
Avi

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From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Lundy, Andrew
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 1:05 PM
To: 'Jim'; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: RE: Misfiring 5 cyl, what would you suspect?

Same problem when I got my car 2+ years ago. Mine would "fix" itself if I
drove it for about 20 minutes....than ran prefect. Let it sit for 24 hours
and I would have to repeat step 1!!

I had some NASTY dirty injectors on my 1990 80q (w/ 200k miles). A couple
(dozen) powerful treatments of fuel injector cleaner cleared it up.

About two months ago it came back, one shot of Techron cleared it up
again....for a while!!

HTH!!
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Andrew Lundy
90 80q
99 A6q

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim [mailto:jv9999 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 2:42 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Misfiring 5 cyl, what would you suspect?


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I just picked up a '90 Audi 80 Quattro with a poorly running 5 cyl. It runs
like one bank isn't firing. In fact if I remove the plug wire from #3 it
doesn't seem to make any difference (but the plug fires fine). I'm going to
do a compression test tonight but to those of you who know these engines
well, what would you suspect? It has 119K miles on it.

Thanks in advance for any tips, Jim



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