[V8] '93 Picture

[Paul Jager]

We did the whole works 2 or 3 seals done by our tech. I took a mirror and
under the distributor cap, everything is dry there.

There is a small flat ledge visible at the bottom corner of the head of
block. It's about 0.3" wide by 0.75" long - and you can spy it with a
maglite. Not sure if that is part of the block or the head.  If I clean
that, oil appears pretty quick on that surface. That is where a small dollop
of coolant was sitting too after stopping for the night, until I used a 1/4
bottle or stop leak months ago.

According to the service records this car has a huge bill $5000+ in 1995 for
the following at 41,468 km's or only 25,000 miles:
Dealer Operation # 1570125 Replace headgaskets
                 # 1750118 Oil pan gasket

Also included Both front strut inserts, control arm bushings, replace
radiator, brakes & discs all ' round.

My guess is this is the same oil leak, they went at it but didn't solve it.
Therefore engine runs great but has a problem at the back corner of the
block. They should have used gasket compound there I think.

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Head [mailto:v8q at bellsouth.net]
Sent: February 21, 2006 1:42 PM
To: pjager at telus.net; v8newlist
Subject: Re: [V8] '93 Picture


Did you just do the oil ring seal, or did you also remove the
distributor mount with the 2 torx screws and do the flat seal for it...

Paul Jager wrote:

>Here's a shot of my'93V8 taken today (115KB)....
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>http://www.jageng.com/Images/AudiV8_Moving.jpg
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>I think I've had it about 6 years and it runs & looks better than ever.
>Everything works, put in a sub chamber for deep bass, using our spare well
>sealing system (just like on our 928 Audio).
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>I still am living with an oil leak off the back, driver side of the engine.
>I did a 1000 mile trip and used a quart over the distance. Consumption of
>oil is not the issue, just the smoking 5 minutes after initial start, or on
>stopping after a few hours on the highway (burns off the cats after loss of
>cooling air flow across the cats.) Embarrassing!
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>We did the distributor seals and o-rings. I still suspect the head gasket
at
>the corner. A barely noticeable coolant leak was in the same region, leak
>stopper fixed that.  I might get a dye kit and use mirrors to trace.
>
>Paul
>www.jageng.com
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