Help with Audi Problems - 83 CGT, 88 5KSQ

[Huw Powell]

> 83 CGT --
> My 83CGT started on Saturday and then stumbled/backfired and quit. It
> now starts and runs while the cold start valve is open and then dies.
> I just had a similar problem on my 84 4KS and it turned out to be a
> bad rotor/distributer cap. I checked these on the CGT and sure enough
> they were bad. Replaced with cap/rotor from 80 5KS but did not solve
> the problem. What is the likelyhood that the coil is the actual
> culprit.

So the car runs while the CSV delivers fuel and then stops... does not
sound like an ignition problem to me.  Sounds like a fuel problem.

> 885KSQ --
> Am replacing the head due to an overheating problem. Things are going
> well with the exception of removing the vibration damper so that I can
> replace the timing belt. Any advice on this problem will be
> appreciated.

Lock the crankshaft with a 2084 or reasonable facsimile thereof, and use
a big breaker bar on the bolt in the center.

-- 
Huw Powell

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