Re: Its runs, but its not happy - sickly Ur quattro

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <000b01be94c3$32d1dae0$6c0b883e@default> "Jim Haseltine" writes:

> >Of course, the colour of the smoke and its smell are important.  Black
> >and rich is OK, blue ...

> Oh sh*t.. its sort of whiteish/blue...

White and smells acrid?  Sign of burning coolant.  Blue is usually valve
guides or a turbo seal.  Looking for a cause of both together?  Something
serious has happened to the head gasket between #4 and #5 or behind
#5.  On the MB, this doesn't always result in exhaust products in the
coolant, which is the usual sign otherwise.

> Hmm.. Theres a white 88 for sale not to far from me - asking price is
> less than GBP6k - a drastic solution but it would give me something
> more powerful (and classy) than the Metro to drive until I get this
> one fixed.

If it's the one in Preston - contact Roger Galvin or Richard Simmonds.

This car has already been viewed.

> But can I really justify three of these cars?

Galvin has three ur-quattro, a 200TQ and a Coupe quattro.  I think (and
I've told him) that he's an idiot.  He also has two small children and
(for the moment at least) a wife.

> As for an air leak, this will be a leak into the engine via a seal or a shot
> breather hose rather than in the induction side? I know that the air dome to
> turbo hose is on its last legs but I assume that if this was at fault
> clamping the breather wouldn't have had any effect.

That big?  Base of the big breather hose, where it leaves the crankcase.

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