[s-cars] Cam sprocket removal

[Tom Green]

I like the idea of a nice clean install with no splices, Bob.

In this case the plug is a molded plug with the wires molded in a flat
cover making one continuous piece from CPS to the plug.  Extra
protection because of its position and importance, I assume.  You
would have to source a replacement plug as well as connectors and
a boot to protect it.

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:05:10 -0500
> From: "Robert Rossato" <bob.rossato_af at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Cam sprocket removal
> To: <theringmeister at triad.rr.com>,	"'Theodore Chen'"
> 	<tedebearp at yahoo.com>
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
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> 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
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of
>> theringmeister at triad.rr.com
>> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 3:19 PM
>> To: Theodore Chen
>> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
>> 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