[s-cars] Fuel leak 93 S4

[Tom Green]

Everyone I know of has had this leak, Sam, so yours is slow coming  
on.  :-)

Fred is the list advisor for s-car stuff and the equivalent of  
Canada's Dear
Abby or E.F. Hutton when it comes to good advice for these cars.  I  
would
take that advice to heart.

I assume you are talking about the Oetinger single-use clamps.  I  
don't think
they provide enough long-term clamping force to be secure and would add
another or screw-down clamp for the trip to the repair shop.  Can you  
find a
place to swage the clamp on the line in place?   It is a big project  
to remove the
hard line if it has to be done on the bench.  Audi changed the repair  
after many
replacements were done and just left the old hard line in place and  
installed a
new line routed with the return lines at the firewall behind the  
electronics cover.

I believe a description of that repair is available in the s-cars.org  
downloads of
the US DOT recalls.

Tom


> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:02:17 -0500
> From: "Fred Munro" <munrof at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Fuel leak 93 S4
> To: "Sam Clarkson" <sam at edgetoedge.co.nz>,	<s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Message-ID: <AFECLHABEEILGMHBNDFECEMPDOAA.munrof at sympatico.ca>
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>
> 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