[s-cars] Fuel leak 93 S4

[Fred Munro]

Sam;

This is a common failure. Audi issued a recall in North America (well,
actually the U.S. and Canadian federal government  departments responsible
for auto safety forced a recall) and replaced the lines free of charge with
a modified A6 fuel line. I don't know how good you feel about your end
nipper clampy things, but if that line blows off you'll probably lose the
car to a major engine fire. Hopefully you'd get out with your life.
Personally, I'd be inclined to replace the hose or try to get your Audi
dealer to do it for free. Maybe you can get your government auto safety
group to issue a recall - I persuaded Transport Canada to issue the recall
for Canada.

Fred Munro
'94 S4
'97 S6


-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Sam Clarkson
Sent: January 19, 2007 2:45 AM
To: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: [s-cars] Fuel leak 93 S4


Hi all
Happy new year
I hope all you folk in the WRONG hemisphere are enjoying your snow
tyres as much as I'm enjoying my aircon!
I smelt something...
Fuel dripping out of the swaged connection between the braided hose
and the solid fuel line coming from the firewall to(or is that from?)
the fuel filter. Hmmm raw fuel near hot turbo thingy, I don't think so!
So I cut it off and crimped on a new braided hose with those crimps
you squeeze with end nippers (forget what they are called sorry) and
all is well. My question is can that be called a permanent repair or
do I need to take it all off and get a high pressure swage back on.
Ski some pow pow for me...


Sam Clarkson

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