[s-cars] Cam sprocket removal

[Theodore Chen]

bob,

the CPS from the group buy doesn't have wires long enough to reach the harness, and the wires disappear into plastic at the CPS end.  you have to splice somewhere.  there isn't really a choice, unless you want put the plug behind the timing cover (and i don't think there's room).

-teddy

----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Rossato <bob.rossato_af at cox.net>
To: theringmeister at triad.rr.com; Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com>
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 3:05:10 PM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] Cam sprocket removal


Everyone is assuming there is a splice job.  If I was doing this I
 would
get new connectors, crimp them onto the new CPS leads, pop the old
 wires
out of the connector housing, and insert the new ones into the now
vacated connector housing.  I avoid splices if at all possible.

Bob

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> To: Theodore Chen
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> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Cam sprocket removal
> 
> 
> just checked,
> the mechanic that did it just ran the lead from the cps to 
> the plug, which itself is just in front of the fuel rail, but 
> the lead that runs to it that's under the cover is part of 
> the car's wiring harness, not from the cps.   He didn't leave 
> much of any slack either.  It's tucked in there pretty well, 
> so the sprocket's gotta come off.
> 
> --
> Wylie Bean
> TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
> 90 cq
> 91 90q20v sport
> 92 UrS4
> 01 allroad
> 
> 
> ---- Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> > i changed the CPS when i did the timing belt last year, and 
> i recall the cam bolt took the largest metric socket i had on 
> hand, which is a 24mm.
> > 
> > are you sure the splice is behind the cam sprocket?  my 
> replacement CPS, which i bought through the group buy, had 
> long leads, and i was able to place the splice pretty far 
> away.  it's somewhere under the black plastic fuel rail 
> cover, if memory serves.
> > 
> > -teddy
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: "theringmeister at triad.rr.com" <theringmeister at triad.rr.com>
> > To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 6:59:28 AM
> > Subject: [s-cars] Cam sprocket removal
> > 
> > 
> > In my quest to fix the no-start issue on my 92, I was going 
> to try to
> >  check the splice job done by the PO's mechanic on the CPS. 
>  In order to
> >  get to the wiring, the cam sprocket has to come off, and 
> I'm wondering
> >  what size the bolt is since I don't have one big enough to 
> tell, and no
> >  Bentley to check.  Surely somebody here knows.  The AW 
> forums mention
> >  23mm, but Cody says he doesn't think it's a 23..so, 22mm, 
> 24mm perhaps?
> >  
> > 
> > The CPS was replaced just a few weeks before I bought the 
> car (a year
> >  ago last Nov) so I have my doubts as to it being the reason for my
> >  non-start unless it's a bad splice job or cold solder, but 
> the intermittent
> >  no-start/start leads me to believe it's not a fuel pump issue
 since
> >  when it runs, it runs out well to full boost and doesn't 
> seem to stumble
> >  as if it's not getting enough fuel.  Still not getting a 
> code for it
> >  though.
> > 
> > --
> > Wylie Bean
> > TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
> > 90 cq
> > 91 90q20v sport
> > 92 UrS4
> > 01 allroad
> > 
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