[s-cars] switch recall?

[Aaron]

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Could it be that by creating the piston cutouts would adversely effect
compression ratio?  Seems this lost volume could be made up someplace
else...
Aaron

Igor Kessel wrote:

>Taka,
>neither are the '96 S6, yet they are listed too? Hmmm, I am still
>puzzled.
>
>BTW, thanks for the offer to help me with the AEB (A4 1.8T) engine. I am
>OK. The engine is in pieces, all over the garagge. All 8 ehxaust valves
>are bent. I ordered the replacement ones from Rod at TPC (as always), he
>had them for $42/ea.
>
>This is the 5th or the 6th Audi engine that I am taking apart and I
>can't help but wonder why the hell Audi _STILL_ does not make the
>segmented cutouts in the piston crowns for the exhaust valves? At least
>in the A4 they had finally gotten enough sence to make these cutouts for
>the intake valves, never mind that I don't care about those - they are
>dirt cheap in comparison with the sodium filled ehxaust valves.
>
>BTW, when I had first taken my Lada 2105 engine apart back in 1984 (and
>that car was the first Lada with a timing belt rather than the chain) I
>saw the segmnented cutouts in the piston crowns, made specifically to
>accomodate the hanging valves in the event of a belt failure. Now, that
>was a Lada, designed 20 years ago! Not exactly a paragon of the
>automotive engineering.
>And now here I am, 18 years later, bitching about this super-duper
>marvel of German engineering, five-valve-per-cylinder my ass, in the
>beginning of the 21st Century, where I still have to take the whole
>freaking engine apart only because of a stupid belt tensioner ceasing
>up. On 40,531 miles!!! Man, am I pissed! And the worst part, Audi
>pretends like nothing happened. No oficial recall issued. Turns out that
>the AEB engines shear teeth on timing belts from 30kmi to 60kmi. My
>aquaintance in Russia sez he once had a batch of 20-some cars with the
>timing belts sceased up, all exhaust valves bent. Unlike us here in the
>US they started to receive the A4-s beginning with m/y 1995.
>
>Sorry for hte A4 offtopic, folks. At the moment I am elbow-deep in my
>wife's car engine.
>
>--
>Igor Kessel
>two turbo quattros
>
>P.S. I have decided to CC: the A4 list. Folks, if you STILL have not
>updated the crappy timing belt tensioners in your 1.8T engines, do it
>_NOW_, if not sooner. Search the audiworld archives withe the "tensioner
>+valves +bent" in the search and brace yourself for dozens of horror
>stories. Alas, the A4 has been so bullit-proof reliable over the past 4
>years (a friggin' Honda Accord, only fun to drive) that I have
>completely neglected reading about it and have instead concentrated on
>my '97 S6. Hence the price I am paying now.
>
>
>TM wrote:
>
>>Igor-
>>You're forgetting that your car isn't an official US import- due to
>>that, it's probably
>>excluded from any VIN ranges issued by AoA.
>>
>>Taka
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
>>[mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Igor Kessel
>>Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 10:11 AM
>>To: s-car-list at audifans.com
>>Subject: Re: [s-cars] switch recall?
>>
>>Bob Rossato wrote:
>>
>>>Here is the link.  I think the part numbers listed are for the entire
>>>switch assembly, not just the electrical half.
>>>
>>>Bob
>>>
>>>http://www.springbreakdaytonabeach.com/vwtech/www.vwwebsource.com/vwte
>>>chcont
>>>ent/pdf/kbcirc.pdf
>>>
>>Hmm.... neither my m/y, nor my VIN are listed. I wonder if it is because
>>of some Audi knocklehead recall campaign manager or because by '97 m/y
>>those switches were miraculously cured. I tend to suspect the former
>>rather than the latter. After all, my car did have the infamous fuel
>>line leak, with only at about 30kmi on the clock.
>>
>>--
>>Igor Kessel
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