How I spent my weekend...

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

1.  Saturday afternoon was time to try to help T with her fuel line
leak(s) in her 4kq.  The first one was coming from the fuel line holder
right over the center driveshaft.  Working the connector off cause a
much bigger leak a little further to the rear in the return line.  After
fashioning a chunk of replacment line and putting it in, it seemd the
main line still leaks at that first location.  Damn!  I'd hoped both
leaks were in the same pipe.  Didn;t manage to fix that one, not enough
decent bits of fuel line around with the right (or close enough) bends
in them.

then she mentions that new lines are available from the dealer for about
$75.  I'm tempted to buy a pair for my coupe while they still exist and
mothball them for the inevitable leaks.  I do *not* want to ever try to
make one from scratch with a bending tool!

2.  So today was time for fun.  Either pull my fresh air intake plenum
and try to clean out the top of the heater core and fan (something is
"whirring" in there...) or start to strip the CIS-E off the 84 in the
field.

My car was in shadow, the 84 was in the sun.  easy decision.

In about an hour I had the harness stripped back and hanging over the
edge of the car, the fuel distributor and lines off, and some other
assorted clutter.  Took another hour to rip through the AC evaporator to
find the ecu connections to the fuse box, pull the connector off the end
of that harness and get the entire harness out of the car.  Joy of joys,
even though the coupe doesn't have a heated OXS (I do) it still has the
connector for the heater.  Another hour spent removing 5 of the intake
manifold bolts.  All the easy ones.  Lots of anti-seize on their
threads, but they were torqued in tight.  All except the back one which
was a few mm out before I started...

I now have three more to remove (5,6, and 7 frm the front).  they are
not being nice about it.  I could use my IM but the newer one has less
useless vacuum attachments.  Any ideas to make this a little easier,
besides yanking the head?

Which leads to the next question... there is a vacuum or PCV type hose
hooked up to a little flange between I think the #2 and #3 injector -
right into the head.  I wonder how inportant this is?  I know I will not
be using the block vent hose, since the 82 has no block vent, is this
just another PCV thing I can do without or is it important to the
running of the motor?

And... anyone know if the Hall generator on the K and KE cars is really
the same?  the connector is different, but the same three terminals -
would be easier to do this if I don't swap distributors as well.

Did I forget to mention the whole point of this exercise is to put the E
system on my 82?  And that will obsolete a bucket of spare warm up
regulators, fuel distibutors, and ecu's, in case anyone is in need of
K-jet peripherals...

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.thebook.com/human-speakers

82 Audi Coupe; 85 Coupe GT
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