[Fwd: Re: Audi 100 Won't Start]

[Kneale Brownson]

All those hoses require more than a visual check.  Stick your fingers
around them.  Check the bottoms of the hoses.  They often rot/split on the
bottom and look perfectly sound from the top and feel sound if squeezed on
the sides.

At 08:36 PM 1/26/2004 -0500, Marc Boucher wrote:
>I too am thinking about the possibility of a vacuum leak in fact today I was 
>trying to check the hose that runs from the ISV to the rubber air bonnet.  
>I've checked all the visible hoses but its really difficult to check since 
>car won't run for that long.  Any tips finding a vacuum leak?  It would (in 
>my view) have to be a very large leak to prevent the car running.  I've 
>disconnected small hoses  before without it shutting off the car.
>