RE: 85 URq developing an oil addiction.

[Andrew Asher <andrew.asher@pnz.co.nz>]

Thanks Phil,
Whats got me confused is the - worse when its warm part and the oiling
#5.
I will have to check on monday re: the compresson test method - Ive got
to have some faith in the dealers, they seemed to think they were all as
close as you could expect.
It did have a coolant loss problem since fixed - radiator and water pump
got together on that one.

RE: the Turbo main seal ? would I expect to see oil in the inlet
manifold ?  It is at present as clean as a clean thing.

Andrew Asher
Auckland, New Zealand
Andrew.Asher@mail.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk
> [SMTP:quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk]
> Sent:	Saturday, November 22, 1997 10:11 PM
> To:	andrew.asher@pnz.co.nz
> Cc:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	85 URq developing an oil addiction.
> 
> In message <199711220256.VAA19966@coimbra.ans.net> Andrew Asher
> writes:
> 
> > The dealers are pretty keen to rebore it, figuring that this will
> cure
> > all known ailments one way or the other - but I don't share their
> > confidence.  I'm figuring a problem in the valve guides or in the
> > crankcase ventilation system, as the problem is HUGE under high
> vacuum.
> 
> I'm thinking turbo main seal.
> 
> Are the compression figures different with all plugs out and with
> plugs in the 
> adjacent cylinders?  Any coolant loss?
>  
> IMO this is pretty typical of a car that hasn't been 'idled down'
> after hot 
> runs.
> 
> -- 
>  Phil Payne
>  Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club