Re: The smell of burning oil...

[Marty Stark <martys@tiac.net>]

I'd check the area around the steering rack.  Although racks are much better in
90's decade Audis, I remember similar symptoms in a 5K with leaking rack seals.

-Marty-
'91 2c tqw, '95 xj12, '87 tr

Sean_Ford@idx.com wrote:

> To:   quattro
> Anyone feel like throwing a dart at what this might be?
>
> Myself, my wife, and my son are in my '92 100CS yesterday on our way home.
> At a highway junction, on the on ramp to Rt. 95 (from 128, if anyone cares)
> in MA, I drop down into 4th gear because its a
> right-into-a-fairly-tight-decreasing-radius-left on ramp, and as I come out
> of the corner onto the straight I floor it. WOT in 4th, up to about 4200
> rpm and shift up to 5th. The whole car is then consumed with the smell of
> burning oil.
>
> In retrospect, I should've pulled over and popped the hood. I didn't, and
> now I'm wondering what the hell is going on. I think I'm going to have to
> perform another WOT and see what happens on that same on ramp. It seems to
> me that oil leaked SOMEWHERE, and I'll be less than pleased seeing as how
> the gaskets were all just replaced at the end of Oct '98.
>
> Any other 12v'ers have, or having, something similar?
>
> Sean Ford
> '92 Audi 100CS 5-spd 43k mi
> http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/5528