Re: Exploding Distributor Cap... (fwd)

[Robert Myers <rmyers@wvit.wvnet.edu>]

Sounds like maybe the car needs a brother replacement.  :-)

On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Dan Simoes wrote:

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> >From thompers@together.net  Mon Feb 19 23:30:04 1996
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> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 23:40:56 +0500
> To: quattro-digest-owner@coimbra.ans.net
> From: thompers@together.net (Thompson Smith)
> Subject: Exploding Distributor Cap...
> 
> Message posted for my bro...
> 
> Here's a good one for everyone...
> 
> My younger bro owns a Titan Red metalic '86 5KCStq and just recently had
> his distributor cap explode apart on him....?  He lives at 7800 feet in Tahoe,
> daily driver,  regular guy, minimal maintenance dude. (Never changed it I
> bet...)
> He said that it..."looked as if it got burned and blew apart ... scattering
> brick red plastic everywhere, with a blackend look"  I told him that the
> Audi gods had let a big "dist cap fart..." and that he needed to spend some $$$.
> A new cap fixed that one.
> 
> Next good one...
> 
> The same bro, and quattro went for a long drive with the wife and kids from
> Lake Tahoe, CA down into the depths of Arizona, through the Mojave, to
> San Clemente, etc... and back to Lake Tahoe.  On the trip he noticed on a slight
> steady uphill, (1.1 bar~ or 1.2 bar) and that he felt a random "engine
> miss/skip" at
> 75mph or 3000 rpm's...?  Temp, 90 degrees outside and less than a 1/8 of a tank
> of petrol..... hmmm.  Could this be a vapor lock...?  or something more
> severe...?
> After filling up with petrol he said that all was normal, what gives...??  Was a
> sensor acting up...?
> 
> After replacing the dist. cap he also changed plugs (WR7DC). I thought that
> the orig plug wires could be shot and recommended replacing those as well,
> possibly
> contributing to the engine miss....?
> 
> Looking forward to tons-o-responses.... please help
> 
> Thompson Smith-
> Art Director/QCUSA
> 1983 Ur-quattro #568
> 1986 5000CS tq pearly wifes car.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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  Bob
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