[V8] Yet another car
toml99 at todomundo.com
toml99 at todomundo.com
Fri May 24 22:55:58 PDT 2013
Hey, well a friend who's got the large German auto place in town
called me about 3 yrs ago asking me if I wanted a client's Black V8
for $1500 or so....I said no......He called last week and apparently
it's been sitting in his boneyard ever since and was calling before
he crushed it.....When it died, it was running on 6 and running rich.
I removed both distributors/wires attached and replaced and fired up
on all 8. Drove it 4 blocks home, and have been messing with it. It
was parked under a fruit tree, and as such, some rats decided to take
up residence in the engine compartment, and seem to be fond of the
knock sensor wires. Tech left it with all the plugs out(compression
check), and the tops of the valve covers were covered in rat poop.
Assuming the motor could eat some rat poop, I put some new plugs in
and ran it. It was smoking really bad and smelt rich. I found 1/2
case of 5W-30 in the trunk and when I drained the oil, it was like
water.....Filled it up with 15-45(Rotella for my Diesel) and smoking
almost went away. No codes, but was still running rich. I changed
the fuel filter that was an OEM audi filter that was orange(never
seen that), and a bunch of stuff came out in the pan, and here's the
pic of filter.......
Anyway, even though no codes, I pulled the OX wire, and it ran
better, so I replaced the OX sensor, and it's basically fine, but
still smells rich but runs great....FPR/vacuum is fine, and all the
breather hoses are new(yeah)......May swap ECU just for fun as the
spare has the chip I believe, but aside from that, I'm thinking
Injectors?....Car has newer rack/OEM hoses/front end/shocks...needs
all 4 brake hoses(have)/sunroof cable(have)....winning.....Tom
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