cooling system gunk

[John S. Lagnese]

When it was set right everything ran great.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Lenahan" <glenahan at vfemail.net>
To: "John S. Lagnese" <jlagnese at massed.net>
Cc: "thejimrose" <thejimrose at gmail.com>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: cooling system gunk


> You are lucky there was no damage
> So are they, I presume.
> 
> Grant
> On Mar 14, 2007, at 5:15 AM, John S. Lagnese wrote:
> 
>> When I got the car back there was no power, it started like shit and 
>> would stall, then not restart. I actually took the car back, lined up 
>> the timing mark at the flywheel and showed the top tech that it wasn't 
>> lined at the vibration damper.
>> Needless to say they don't touch my car anymore!
>> John
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: thejimrose
>>   To: John S. Lagnese
>>   Cc: Pantelis Giamarellos ; quattro at audifans.com
>>   Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:27 AM
>>   Subject: Re: cooling system gunk
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>     My 91 20V overflowed a bit the other day while just idling. It 
>> seemed all
>>     rusty. I added some orange coolant. Was this a mistake?
>>
>>   hm.. yea rusty coolant and orange coolant are no bueno.  do your car 
>> a favor and  spend saturday am repenting and flush it out. easy enuff 
>> to do.. if a little messy. dont forget to keep the heater on high to 
>> flush the core as well. a few cycles of distilled should get you back 
>> to normal.
>>
>>
>>
>>     I did have the water pump changed last summer by some bozos who 
>> couldn't
>>     reset the timing correctly.Maybe they added the wrong coolant.
>>
>>   that makes me nervous for you - people changing yout tbelt that 
>> couldnt time the car correcty.
>>
>>   <<shiver>>
>>
>>
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