[s-cars] Fuel leak 93 S4

[Sam Clarkson]

Thanks for the advice everyone.
It would seem getting a hose made up to go the whole way from filter  
to firewall (or manifold?) would be ideal.
Or is that faulty logic?

Sam Clarkson
I thought I was wrong once.... but I was mistaken
On 21/01/2007, at 6:11 AM, Tom Green wrote:

> 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
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