[V8] What now!

[Dan Hamren]

Ok on the day that I get my wagon back with a new engine the V8 decides
to act up in a big way.  In the morning my wife tried to start the car
and all she got was sputtering and black smoke.  I got a chance to try
it a bit later and got no smoke but I did get sputtering and the smell
of gas.  Then last night I cranked it and got absolutely nothing.  In
fact it sounded like the engine was dead, but I have a feeling that I
have oil in the distributor cap, or the wires are dust ( unlikely ), I
am pretty sure its an ignition problem.  I think that when the engine
was sputtering it was only getting spark to half the engine, and now I
am not getting spark to anything.  Are there 2 coils on this car? I
think that is the likely culprit, because I replaced the rotors and cap
less than 10k ago.  FPR has been done recently.  Hmmm I know I haven't
touched the fuel filter.. maybe that..  I pulled the codes and got Speed
sensor which I replaced 6 weeks ago.  I knew I was in trouble when I
said that the car has been running good.  I knew it was a matter of
time, and not much time at that, before something was going to go wrong.

 

Along with that my wife left the doors unlocked and the radio was taken.
No broken windows, in fact the connector and wires are still in tact, so
there is another thing to deal with.  Did I mention that I just got the
A6 back from the shop?  My attempt at an engine replacement proved
beyond my skills $3,500 bucks later. Ouch! On the positive side.. New
tranny fluid/filter, CV boots, and a used engine that the junk yard said
had 68k on it looked brand new inside!  I figure the engine had been
recently been put in the car before it was wrecked.  It purrs and spins
so freely it must be new.  Sometimes I wonder why I am an Audi guy.. ohh
yeah , because if I was a BuMmerW guy it would have been $6,500 !!!

 

96 A6

90 V6

03 Nali 

 

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