Hosed...Literally!

[edkellock at juno.com]

I've hosed every darn Audi I've owned and not had much trouble.  The
worst was the V8 with those darn deep spark plug holes that I had to dry
manually.  My "new" urq, which was not running when found and came with
no records, a non-working odo, and no previous owner contact to fill in
the blanks, weathered my usual Simple Green and
garden-hose-connected-to-the-hot-water-heater cleaning without any more
drama than any other of mein Audis.  I was prepared for it to not run for
a couple days, but it started right up afterwards and after just a little
usual sputtering, it never faltered.  Cool!

Ed
Colorado Springs

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:34:31 -0500 Huw Powell <human747 at attbi.com>
writes:
>
> > You've just learned a valuable lesson about old German
> > cars.  Leave the engine bay dirty!!!
>
> I must respectfully disagree here... a clean engine bay is much
> easier
> to work in, to see leaks, and lets everything work properly.
>
> A grunged up engine may develop some "issues" upon the first major
> cleaning, but everything you have to fix should be done anyway -
> undoing
> all connectors, cleaning them, and reassembling with some dielectric
> gel
> (one at a time!).
>
> You'd be surprised what you can actually see under there after the
> 1/4"
> layer of grrit, grease, and grime has been removed...
>
> --
> Huw Powell
>
> http://www.humanspeakers.com/
>
> http://www.humanthoughts.org/
>
>

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