Followup to Dead Wagon...

[MHLIGGINS at aol.com]

>1. Does anyone have a used metering distributor for a 1987 Audi 5000s
(no turbo, no quattro) with a 2.3l NF engine that I can have cheap?

       Nope, but if a crossover chart shows that one from a turbo quat can be
used I've got one or some out back in the shop.


       With the symptoms you describe, especially with the car sitting for a
while, I'd be cleaning the ground wire between the computer and the intake
manifold. It doesn't take much corrosion between the copper washer and the
aluminum intake to create SERIOUS issues with an older quat. Remove the bolt, take a
wire brush to everything, then bolt it back up.

       --ml