Re: Thermo-Switch location - 87 5KCSTq ?

["Keleigh Hardie" <hobbesian@worldnet.att.net>]

This car does not have a thermo-time switch. The cold start injector is
activated by the FI ECU.

Keleigh!
88 80Q

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> From: Dirk Dalton <cen20383@mail.wi.centuryinter.net>
> To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: Thermo-Switch location - 87 5KCSTq ?
> Date: Saturday, June 07, 1997 3:06 PM
> 
> I need some enlightenment from you fellow listers as to the location of
the
> temperature sender that controls the cold start valve.  There are many
> other senders that I have found, but not the one I need.  I found the
> injector cooling sender (rear of the engine, near wastegate <1 wire -
blue
> and red), the sender that contols the radiator fan (where coolant hose
goes
> into head <2 wires, forgot the colors), 2 brass one wire senders in the
> same area, and a big sender in the same area with 5 wires.  Is this the
> one???  Or maybe the one in the bottom of the radiator? 
> 
> I am still wrestling with my slow start problem.  i hooked a light up to
> the cold start valve today.  doing the fuse/fuel pump thing, i got the
> light to light up when it got to the cold start valve test, so the wiring
> to that is good.  But, the light won't go off (for even a second) during
> normal cold cranking.  This leads me to believe that the temp sender may
be
> at fault.  
> 
> thanks for the list wisdom in advance, and has anyone seen or heard from
> Avi Meron?  I need to buy a fiche from him.
> 
> tom
> 
> 
>
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>  dirkdalton@centuryinter.net 
>  87' 5KCSTq
> 
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