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Re: oil & oilfilters



I agree that it is probably a vacuum leak.

Check oil filler cap to bake sure that it is seated
properly and that the seal is not dirty.

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| From: BMD <eurocar@gci.net>
| To: Claus Vegener <vegener@post7.tele.dk>
| Cc: Quattro List <quattro@audifans.com>
| Subject: Re: oil & oilfilters
| Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 3:12 PM
| 
| Guaranteed not the oil, seen it used in the Great White
North in temps
| from -60 to +90F with no problems. Maybe they loosened a
vacuum line, left a
| cap loose, dipstick out? Perhaps other failed vacuum
line, they are not
| uncommon. Could even be totally unrelated.
| 
| Bryan Doughty
| home.gci.net/~eurocar
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: Claus Vegener <vegener@post7.tele.dk>
| To: quattro audifans <quattro@audifans.com>
| Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 9:24 AM
| Subject: oil & oilfilters
| 
| 
| > We have just talk't about filters
| > - too late
| > I got new oil-filter Saturday - and it is a Fram -
worst brand according
| to
| > all papers, I now have read.
| > My mecanics also poured Mobil 1 into the engine, what I
have asked him for
| > but I had expected 5-40. He uses 0-40 and now the
question:
| >
| > Next day after the oil change the cars got rough idling
and dies when
| warm.
| >
| > Can that be a coincident or is it because the lifters
believe they're now
| > fast
| > bleeding lifters at idle - and don't bother lift at all
?
| >
| > Claus
| > 200QT 20V Avant 1990/91
| >
| >