[V8] Things that go suck in the night...

[Kneale Brownson]

You sure your black wire wasn't the wire to the Ignition Reference Sender?  

At 07:24 PM 4/24/2005 -0500, Unka Bart wrote:
>Dang!  I was all tingly with anticipation of how much better the 
>Gentleman's express was going to run on the way over to the shop to get 
>the bloody O2 sensor removed.  Thoughts of gas milage numbers greater 
>than 12.0 danced and pirouetted amongst the remaining two or three 
>neural synapses in my brain, for I had just succeeded in finding and 
>removing the black wire from the 02 sensor where it connects to 
>whatever it connects down under the left dizzy...
>
>When I went to start it, it would not start.  Not for me the joy of 
>improved starting, oh noo!  Immediate "rhums" or any other starting 
>noises for that matter, were not to tickle *my* eager ears, no sir!
>
>Plenty of eager starter-spinning noises, sure!  All of those noises 
>that a dedicated V8 lover could ask for in embarrassing abundance!But 
>in the department of actual indications that ignition of fuel/air 
>mixture might be occurring somewhere in bowels of the V8 from which my 
>beloved Gentleman's express gets it model name, there were none.  Nada. 
>  Nichevo.  Zip.
>
>[insert language unfit for print or ether or even semaphore in this 
>location]
>
>Re-attaching the black wire and repeating the attempt to start was 
>successful.  Attempts to understand this were, however. not.
>
>_______________________________________________
>Audifans V8 mailing list
>Send posts to: mailto:V8 at audifans.com
>Manage your list connection: http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/v8
>Have an Audi V8 question?  Check the Audifans Knowledgebase!
>http://www.audi-quattro.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Audi/V8
>Have a V8 answer? ... Please help others by adding to the KB ... all 
>contributions welcome!