[V8] What now!

[Moy, Bob]

It is highly unlikely that both coils should fail at the same time, but it
could happen.  I had a similar experience a couple of weeks ago.  The first
thing to do is to try and pull codes.  I got 4444, but I knew that the left
side coil was bad since smoke was pouring from the left side when I got
home.  Replaced coil, distributor caps, rotors, and plugs and it still ran
like half the engine was firing.

Pulled the plugs and all the plugs that was fired by the left distributor
was clean while the other side the plugs showed a brownish tint.  At this
point I knew that the left side distributor was still a problem.  Removed
the cable to the left side distributor and check to see if there was battery
voltage to pins 1 and 3.  It checked out.  Hooked a LED to pins 2 and 3 to
see if I was getting a pulse from the ECU, that also checked out. Finally
removed the distributor again and discovered that when I replaced the rotor,
I have gotten one with a set screw rotor, that I have rotated the rotor 180
degree.  Felt really dumb after discovering what I have done.  Reset the
rotor and its been running fine since.

My car have about 123,000 miles so I believe that a major tuneup was in
order.

Bob Moy

-----Original Message-----
From: Korn, Bob [mailto:Bob.Korn at Fike.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:13 PM
To: v8 at audifans.com
Cc: 'Dan Hamren'
Subject: RE: [V8] What now!


I swear these cars can read this list.  Mine has run great until the list
came back up and the stalling stream started, now mine is starting the stall
after hot start thing!

Yes, 2 coils.  I have a spare used one if interested.  I gave $75 for it.

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Hamren [mailto:dan at magnitude-electronics.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:06 PM
To: v8 at audifans.com
Subject: [V8] What now!


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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