The Miss Found

[Dave Glubrecht]

I know this is not ideal diagnosis, but it was cost effective.
My mom's car (4kq) devoloped a FI problem that I traced to the fuel
distributor/metering head, I just went to the local "Pull and Save" and got
a complete setup including the airflow sensor and airbox (hers was damaged)
and replaced everything.  For under $40 the problem was fixed.
Don't rule out replace all as an option with older cars with these parts
that rarely fail.
   Dave G
----- Original Message -----
From: "Huw Powell" <human747 at attbi.com>
To: "Mark Woodland" <markwoodland at hotmail.com>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: The Miss Found


>
> > Many thanks to all that responded to The Miss, with a nod to Jay Rabe
for
> > getting nailing the way to test my hypothesis:
> > >Did you try swapping the #4 and one of the other lines?  That would
>point
> > >to the fuel distributor if the problem moved to the new >injector/
line.
> > I did and it did.. So, now that the miss has been tracked, has anyone
any
> > experience with taking the distribution head apart.
>
> You have tracked down the miss to the assembly you swapped that made the
> miss "move": the section of the fuel system from where the distributor
> separates the individual cylinder flows, to the tip of the injector.
>
> I do not know what the inside of a fuel distributor looks like, to
> specualte on how easy it would be clog or damage one cylinders feed
> section, but it would seem a lot easier to carefully take that fuel
> line, remove the injector from it, clean the line, and reinstall with a
> different injector (from any source, new or used, ideally "known good,"
> of course).
>
> See what that does, you may just have a bad injector.  Could be a good
> time for a new set anyway, they don't last forever.
>
> --
> Huw Powell
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