Further to Just purchased a 90 with 10 valve engine

[rick hayllar]

Thanks Huw
Well
I sprayed some WD40 around last night and it started OK this morning
Rick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Huw Powell" <audi at humanspeakers.com>
To: "rick hayllar" <rhayllar at bigpond.net.au>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: Further to Just purchased a 90 with 10 valve engine


> You probably got water into a connector or six.
>
> Undo all engine compartment electrical connections, one at a time, clean 
> with contact cleaner spray, enhance with silicon dielectric grease, and 
> try again.
>
> I'll get back to you on the hot start/no revs thing, but in the meanwhile 
> you might want to keep in mind that type 89 90Qs are mostly boys, from 
> what I've seen.  You might want to stop calling him "her" and see if that 
> helps.
>
> Great ride, by the way, I'm on my second now.
>
> On 10/12/2010 1:45 AM, rick hayllar wrote:
>> So It was all going well  after I disconnected the idle connector.  I was
>> advised to clean the engine before submitting it to a road worthy test. 
>> So
>> a squirted some kerosene over it then hosed it down a with a gurney while
>> the engine was running
>> Now a I can't start it so what  have I done?
>> Rick
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "rick hayllar"<rhayllar at bigpond.net.au>
>> To:<quattro at audifans.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 6:00 PM
>> Subject: Just purchased a 90 with 10 valve engine
>>
>>
>>> G'day all gurus.
>>> I have just purchased this mainly because of the good parts on it but it
>>> is very clean condition and the engine and seems fine apart from the 
>>> fact
>>> the although it starts and idles perfectly it will nor rev beyond about
>>> 1500 rpm. The previous owner suggests that the timing belt could be
>>> fault?!
>>> If I can sought this out I might be tempted to not steal bits off it.
>>>
>>> Any ideas please?
>>> Rick H
>>
>>
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