[s-cars] B6 S4 4.2l engine vibration

[John Cody Forbes]

Looks like the guy has a way to return it to the auction house where he got it from. I hate that I'm never going to know for certain!

-Cody (mobile)

On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Tom Green <trgreen at comcast.net> wrote:

> Isolating the vibration as you have gives you the point of attack to solve the problem, so you will know soon enough.  But, given the symptoms, I would suspect the clutch disc has fractured 
> or shed some friction material.
> 
> Tom '95 S6  
>          '95.5 S6 avant
> Knoxville, TN
> 
> On Friday November 12, 2010, at 9:49 PM, <cody at 5000tq.com>  wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, the vibration is completely engine related. Pushing the clutch while rolling stopped the vibration.
>> 
>> -Cody (mobile)
>> 
>> On Nov 12, 2010, at 9:34 PM, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
>> 
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>>> 
>>> On 11/12/2010 8:43 PM, John Cody Forbes wrote:
>>>> Today I took the car for a drive. I ran it up to 50mph (shifting at 1800rpm... the torque this thing has is pretty fun), then shut the engine off while in gear. The vibration continued. So that completely rules out any sort of running issue.
>>>> 
>>>> Based on responses and what I've found I am convinced it's a bad flywheel. Ill keep everybody posted.
>>> 
>>> Push in the clutch pedal to remove flywheel from equation?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Huw Powell
>>> 
>>> http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi
>>> 
>>> http://www.humanthoughts.org/
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