help find vacuum leak?/stupid human tricks revisited

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <199706161917.PAA11085@hammurabi.nh.ultra.net> Huw Powell writes:

>> Audi recommend (but not in North America, or they might get sued) an unlit 
>> propane torch.
> 
> After all the jeers when I suggested it months back, it was refreshing for
> me to find, in a troubleshooting column in some 8 page industry rag (for
> auto repair shops) a reference to the "standard propane method" of finding
> vacuum leaks.  Just do it outside, wear goggles and gloves, and make sure
> there's film in the camera....

I'll go with the "outside", or at least well ventilated.  But the torch only 
needs to be on a low setting, and there aren't many open spark areas in an Audi 
engine bay.  Really works, though, especially on the mass sensor to turbo hose.

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club