[s-cars] geyser (was Re: What to rule out before CPS)

[Robert Myers]

Teddy,

Feel fortunate that it happened in your driveway.  This very same 
breakdown happened to me as I pulled off the exit ramp of I-70 and 
into an Arby's parking lot in Hayes, Kansas about 1996.  This was 
only about 1,100 miles from home.  Fortunately I was one of about 9 
Audis in convoy to Colorado Springs and the Pike's Peak Hill Climb 
and I had some very helpful and innovative help and we got a repair 
made and were on our way a while later.

Exactly one year later in the very same Arby's parking lot in Hayes, 
Kansas, the same convoy (more or less) on the same trip the exact 
same coolant break happened to another of our group.  Once again 
emergency repairs were completed and we went on to Colorado.

Now what kind of coincidence is that?  ;-)

BTW, for those unfamiliar with Hayes, Kansas, the only thing within 
miles and miles of Hayes, Kansas, is miles and miles of nothing but 
miles and miles.  ;-)

Bob


At 05:00 AM 4/27/2007, Theodore Chen wrote:
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>--- bill mahoney <airbil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Vincentimo,
> > I'm sure you have a gp/b CPS on hand for such a time as now. or
> > you could move into the s-bitch and just never turn 'er off?
> > Really, hard/no start is classic cps and if not, 130k out of one has been a
> > good deal.  A new one now could save ya later.
>
>it's stories like this that make me very happy that i replaced the CPS
>when i did the timing belt recently.  thank you, vincent.  :)
>
> > Remember; we hate these s-bitches whenst broke but
> > when they run well, they run very, very well.
>
>true.  this evening, i decided to replace the bulbs in the climate control.
>i drove the car into the driveway and parked in front of the garage door.
>got out and went inside to get the new bulbs.  i came back and stood in
>front of the car while looking through the parts i'd bought for the.
>as i stood there, steam began rising from the hood and rapidly got thicker.
>i opened the hood and watched coolant gush out from around the passenger
>side of the engine, near the exhaust manifold.
>
>how off-putting.  i loosened the coolant cap to release pressure and stop
>the geyser, and then went ahead with the bulb replacement.  the engine
>was still too hot for me to work on it afterwards, so i parked the car.
>i'll deal with it this weekend.
>
>i think it's probably the coolant return hose from the turbo.  it's just
>a rubber hose clamped onto a nipple screwed into the block, and came from
>034 motorsport as part of the garrett turbo install kit.  i've had problems
>with leakage from that place before, although it was never this bad.
>
>at least it happened in my driveway.  if it had to happen, there's no better
>place.  i would not have been happy if it had happened 45 miles away in
>oakland yesterday evening.
>
>-teddy
>
>
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