Re: Attack of the giant woodpeckers

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

Kurt;

    If your engine is stalling, the compressor is seized. A bad clutch would
not stall the engine.

Fred Munro
'91 200q  277k km (with a brand spanking new Denso compressor!)

----- Original Message -----
From: Kurt Wesseling <kurt.wesseling@nexusmgmt.com>
To: 'quattro' <quattro@audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 12:49 PM
Subject: Attack of the giant woodpeckers


> Ok, here's the deal...hit the "auto" button on the CC controller and a
noise
> comes from the compressor like a woodpecker or jack hammer.  Or, if you're
> one of those people you can trill an "r" with your tongue continuously,
> that's the sound it makes...much louder of course.
>
> So, knowing that the R-12 level is like, zero, I first try a 2 oz oil
charge
> in the system. Result: No change---still get the jackhammer, woodpecker,
> whatever noise.
>
> Bright idea #2--put some freon in there.  Not a problem since it only
costs
> $780,000 an oz.  Put in 24 ozs.  Result: jackhammering continues.
>
> Lamo-no-chance-it-will-help-but-I'll-try-it-anyway-idea #3--try driving
the
> car to "mix up" that freon.  Result: return of giant woodpecker.  But
don't
> quit now, dear reader, it gets worse.
>
> Get home.  Turn on a/c -- SQEEEEAAAAL--shudder--clunk.  Engines dies.  Too
> much drag from compressor.  That's where we are now.  I can use "econ" ok,
> but hit "auto" and the woodpecker kills the engine fast.
>
> This is the part where you all come in 8-].  How can I exterminate the
> woodpecker??  Do I need a entire new compressor, or just a clutch?  Any
> BTDT?
>
> --Kurt
>
> 1989 200 TQ
> 140,000 miles
>
>