[s-cars] Just cut out and died.

[Bill Mahoney]

Thanks Randrew!

Hey, early 70's I was right down the road from Edwards at George AFB for
about two of the longest years of my life.  Yes so I know dust, desert and
flash floods.  

This was at one of my regular Shell stations.  

Car is still being towed in and they will probably pull codes to start.  If
bad gas or fuel pump were the issue I would guess it would be more of a
sputtering stall then stop.   This was more of a sharp cutout first
intermittent.. then caput.  That leads me more in the direction of something
electrical.   So far no votes for the ignition switch. 

I'll dump the Pinot in there as soon as I can.  Thanks!

Put a coat of clear coat on that Pearl car of yours.  That's what I made
sure they did on the red.  I think State Farm spent $3,200 for a new hood
and firewall forward paint job. I paid another $800 to fix all the other
little stuff.  I'd say probably 65% of the car was repainted overall,
butofcourse the front end is most noticeable.  The cars here really take a
beating and trying to maintain a nice one is an exercise in futility.  So,
I'll just enjoy it while it lasts. when it runs.

Cheers to the Pacific Northwest!

Bill~wondering as usual~M

 

 

From: McCall, Randy [mailto:rmccall at nexant.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:07 PM
To: Bill Mahoney; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: RE: [s-cars] Just cut out and died.

 

Hey Bill,

 

Only time I had bad gas in a tank was long ago in the high school days; put
gas in car, drove maybe a quarter mile before car started chokin' and
dieing.  'Dat was all she wrote until the gas got drained and replaced...
(and yes, the AFB gas station did admit it - could have been that there was
more than one dead car to deal with in close proximity helping that
admission).  There was a big rain storm at Edwards AFB (talk about
desert...), and the rarely experienced rain water leaked into the tank (gas
was probably continuously leaking into the desert as well, being it was the
early 70's and who gave a damn back then).  Good gas and no water and all
was well again for that Pontiac tuna boat.

 

I did a pretty nice job of sealing up the splices on the CPS replacement,
but lookin' good from the outside sure doesn't mean that those skinny little
wires are still makin' good contact.  That was a bitch doing that splice as
I recall.  But just in case it's a Pinot deficiency, and since I still
haven't sent you that promised elixer, AND its a good time to hit the PO,
I'll send you an emergency ration as promised.  I'll send it to your office
unless that address has changed.

 

Cheers, and good luck.  But if you are continuing to have problems, I'll
consider a trade for my Pearl over Ecru 95.5 S6A - not RS2'd,and 123K now,
but at least it runs pretty damn well (and that new paint job ya got is da
bomb!)

 

-Randy

 

 

 

 

 

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From: Bill Mahoney [mailto:wmahoney at disk.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:46 AM
To: s-car-list at audifans.com
Cc: McCall, Randy
Subject: [s-cars] Just cut out and died.

Hey Randy!

All good points you make there.

I had asked my mechanic to check over the cps during rebuild and he had said
he did for whatever that means.

The car "was" totally fine until gas fill up and like I said it did die
within five minutes and < a couple hundred yards at the drive in teller
window.  

I had never had the S car just stall out like that out while idling.   So,
watered gas /frozen line it "could" be although I doubt the station would
ever admit it.

I did probably about 90 seconds (on and off) of subsequent cranking.
Wouldn't this purge H2O?  I had added a bottle + of dry gas to the tank
about 30 minutes and maybe 10 miles before the final failure.  

Could be too that Randy's old cylinder block requires a bit of Pinot Noir
fuel mixture?

Also something to throw in the mix was that I believe that the thermostat
was stuck open and the temp gauge was maybe only 1/8" or so off of cold.  I
had ordered a new thermostat yesterday which I had hoped to install this
weakend.  (BTW the stealer wants $95 for this now. last one I got there was
I think $35ish.  Would up getting a Wahler with o ring for $20. good??)

Stay tuned.

Dead Bill M