[s-cars] Dayum oinker

[chris chambers]

JC,

I have some bad coils, how many you need?


Chris

--- JC <jc at j2c3.com> wrote:

> Bob - Excuse if  you covered this, but what do your coil wires look
> like
> where they go under the cover? Have you fully inspected for
> insulation
> cracks etc.? I'm convinced from seeing what happens to these with age
> that a
> good few "bad coils" diagnoses are, well, not actually bad COILS...
> but the
> also well-known (but often missed by non-UrS-fanatic mechanics) bad
> wiring
> to the coil that has insulation cracks and shorts to ground. 
> Especially the
> wire bends and corners are a much more likely place to be
> intermittent as
> opposed to inside the coil itself (which would be more likely to be
> all or
> nothing if the winding insulation fails).
> 
> By the way anybody who has junk 'bad coils' they want to mail me, I'd
> be
> happy to have some to slap on a turns bridge I have to check the
> turns
> ratio, and then tear down to see what the failure mode seems to be...
> 
> 
> 
> ---- current ----
> 1995.5 S6 Avant
> ---- past lives ----
> 2006 A4 2.0TQA
> 1998 A6Q 2.8 PES G2
> 1989 200TQA SJM
> 1990 CQ
> 1997 A4 1.8TQ Wett
> 1987 4kCSQ
> 
> John J. Cunningham
> jc at j2c3.com
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> > [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Robert Myers
> > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 18:09 PM
> > To: S-Car-List at Audifans.Com; quattro list
> > Subject: [s-cars] Dayum oinker
> >
> >
> > Hi, Y'all,
> >
> > Miss Piggy did it again this afternoon in the middle of a
> > snow storm.  She just quit about 3 miles from my home.  I got
> > under the hood and unplugged and then replugged the white
> > connectors at the firewall.  She fired right up and she and I
> > then went on home.
> >
> > I'm beginning to get disgusted with the pig's inconsiderate
> > mannerisms.
> >
> > I gotta do sumpin to make those connections more stable.
> > D'ya think an application of Stabilant 22a might help?
> >
> > Bob
> >
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