'91 100q 5 injectors replaced - now car wont start

John Lagnese jlagnese at massed.net
Sun Jun 9 20:54:08 PDT 2013


Did you check for fuel pressure?

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Christopher Gharibo
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 9:46 PM
To: Joshua van Tol
Cc: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: '91 100q 5 injectors replaced - now car wont start

My injector shrouds were in pieces and maybe some fell into where the
injectors insert. I doubt it, but it's conceivable.

So what should I do here? Take out upper half of the intake and the
injectors
and try to vacuum out the pieces?

Thanks.

------ Original Message ------
Received: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 09:22:44 PM EDT
From: Joshua van Tol <jvantol at gmail.com>
To: Christopher Gharibo <cgharibo at usa.net>
Subject: Re: '91 100q 5 injectors replaced - now car wont start

> Is it possible you dropped something down the intake? Sounds like no
compression, and that could be caused by foreign objects holding the valves
open.
> On Jun 9, 2013, at 6:35 PM, Christopher Gharibo <cgharibo at usa.net> wrote:
> 
> > I just replaced 5 injectors on my 100q, cleaned what I can and plugged
> > everything back in.
> > 
> > The car now wont start. The fuel pump primes, the starter comes on but
the
> > card does not make that typical, cycling, cranking sound. The starter
sound is
> > now this constant spin instead of the rhythmic cranking one hears when
the
car
> > cranks normally. It doesn't seem like anything is firing.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on what I an missing?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
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