now mine, banged up rr and all

["Steinbrueck, GL" <steinbru@VNET.IBM.COM>]

Hello all,
A couple of weeks, ago I bought the $500 tq that was looking for a home.
It had been a victim of a rear end attack while being backed out of the
driveway.  I have an '86 5ks, and thought to get a parts car for cheap.
Mmleslie honestly said the tires were good and it ran well, he just
didn't want to tackle the work or expense of repairing it.  Well, the
short version of what promises to become a long story is that by the
time I got home, I didn't have a parts car.  I had another project!
Don't we all have just too much time on our hands?  That's where Audi's
come in, they absorb extra time and money and keep us from indulging in
foolish frivolity.

When we started it to check things out, it had very noisy lifters, and
let off some blue smoke after idling for about 15min.  Both of these
symptoms have not recurred (any tips on the smoke?).  I have welded the
dangling hanger (jolt to the exhaust at impact probably, combined with
some rust).  The drivers door has some rust at site of a previous (poor)
repair.  I can't find much else wrong --the radio was stolen, therefore
is gone, only some scratches remain to show for it.  Oh yeah, the
passenger front storage tray is gone, probably ripped out to get to some
part of the radio mount.  Mostly just normal wear for a 10yr old Audi
with 127K on the clock.

Well, now the plan is to stretch out the collision damage enough to get
a tailight back on and fit the bumper back (where DO you get those
little clips?).  Then I'll run it this winter (what else would you do
with AWD) to see if any undetected gremlins appear and contemplate
further fixin' in the spring.  (Oh yes, and get the '92 droccA ready to
sell.)  OK, enough, enough.

I was almost ready to sell the 5ks last year, and then I found this
list.  It helped me with the flying trim, the mysteries of pentosin,
places for parts, fuel pump fixes, those endless electrical puzzles.  It
made me want to try the quattro.  Suddenly, shazaam!  Now I have two
audi's and actually enjoy working on them, and one is a quattro.  Was I
always this easy to hypnotise?  I went to the NE gathering, and found
there were others with this besides me.  Does it wear off I wondered.
Then I drove the tq back from NH, and realized it doesn't.  Please, help
me before I binge again.  I just left an offer for a 5k with a beautiful
body and no tranny on somebody's answering machine.  Damn parts car
syndrome is back, don't I ever learn?

I have to spend some time in the archives, but I'll be back for more
help I'm sure.  In the meantime, does anybody have an owners manual for
an '86 5k turbo quattro I can dup?  This thing has alot more gizmos than
the fraternal twin next to it in my driveway.

--G.
'86 5ks by the Hudson
'86 5ktq (now mine, banged up rr and all  --body shop this week!)