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Well, there's your compression leak.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 01:18 |
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What'd they do, run it on urine? The right side of that combustion chamber looks terrifyingly clean. What's the air filter look like?
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 01:43 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What'd they do, run it on urine? The right side of that combustion chamber looks terrifyingly clean. K&N garbage, hasn't been cleaned in ages.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 01:49 |
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CommieGIR posted:K&N garbage, hasn't been cleaned in ages. Ah, a clodsucker filter. Couple years ago I looked at a used Impreza with a prominent K&N sticker. Lifted the hood and found that they had chopped the air piping all the way back into an open fender (missing fender liner) and stuck on a K&N pod filter which had clogged up with dirt, collapsed and had an open airway directly to the MAF where the seam on the filter had torn. Closed the hood.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 02:11 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Ah, a clodsucker filter. Couple years ago I looked at a used Impreza with a prominent K&N sticker. Its generally why I frown on K&N, because usually if I find a car with K&N on it, its going to look bad.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 02:18 |
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CommieGIR posted:01 Honda Accord. #3 cylinder no compression. We'll see. If you fix this the automatic is going to grenade itself next
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 06:10 |
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8ender posted:If you fix this the automatic is going to grenade itself next While doing 65 on the freeway...
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 10:20 |
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CommieGIR posted:Its generally why I frown on K&N, because usually if I find a car with K&N on it, its going to look bad. I'm in the same boat, I hate on their stuff pretty hard and people in the groups go no no no it's good!!! Yes because when the filter collapses in half and sucks in enough dirt to kill a turbo you have a great reliable product. I seem to think of someone had two similar toyotas with different filters and there was a long term filter test, but I could never find the article or post again.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 13:51 |
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8ender posted:If you fix this the automatic is going to grenade itself next Thankfully, its a manual. And its not my car so let it die.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 14:27 |
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Welp, my 90 Quattro designed to imitate a Land Rover and spill enough oil that the dipstick shows naught. Refilled, and now has a nasty lifter tick. Son of a bitch.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 20:57 |
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That loving blows.
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 03:11 |
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sharkytm posted:That loving blows. Culprit found. The lifter quieted down, but still, I'm gonna have to replace them all at least, if not borescope the cylinders.
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 03:32 |
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loving oil senders.
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 06:17 |
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Stay strong, little obscure Audi!
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 14:33 |
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SuperDucky posted:Stay strong, little obscure Audi! Lifter is dead silent this morning, so I'm hoping it was just the sudden drop in oil pressure, triple checked after starting, driving, and stopping the motor for new leaks, no new oil has appeared.
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# ? Jul 23, 2015 15:02 |
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Those 5 cyls are notorious for having lifter tick if the oil pressure drops at all. I would even give it a second thought.
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# ? Jul 25, 2015 13:36 |
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Sick of driving in the heat of Hotlanta, I finally broke down and devised a scheme to recharge the R12 AC system. By filling it with PC Duster, which contained Difluoroethane, AKA R152, which is an EPA approved replacement for R12 and alternative to R134A. First snag: The Can Tap (green oil filter wrench looking thing) needs a pin to open the schrader valve so you can fill via the AC manifold, so I had to cut a small piece of metal rod and use it to push open the schrader valve on the tap. Then, filled like a charm. Success! After evacuating the system to zero, and then filling it with the R152, the compressor kicked on a couple times, then stayed on steady, the gauges showed good fill pressure, and the air is blowing cold. Then drove 150 miles to Guard Weekend, blew cold all the way, enough to start frosting the front window.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 03:14 |
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Pretty sweet. Did you not have to put oil in?
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 03:17 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Pretty sweet. Did you not have to put oil in? Nope. And I've been checking pressure and listening to the compressor at intervals, steady and smooth and pressure is holding steady.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 03:20 |
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Super kickass. Rock on, you crazy bastard.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 03:29 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Super kickass. Rock on, you crazy bastard. In other news: Someone is donating me a VW/Volvo D24T 2.4l Turbodiesel Inline 6. It bolts up to the Audi 4000 Quattro Transmission.....interesting....
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 03:32 |
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That doesn't surprise me at all. There used to be a video from some crazy Finns where they strapped a D24 to a dilapidated 740, stuck a stack out the hood (complete with flapper valve) and thrashed it in a field to the sound of Jessica Simpson's rendition of Take My Breath Away. I'm pretty sure at one point they put an Audi I5 diesel on there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ-kZc0vlyg Here's more of that same car making the poof poofs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNi6QXxva8 Later, it made more poof poofs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGpn3w0qigo It goes without saying that I would daily drive this fine automobile. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Aug 1, 2015 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:That doesn't surprise me at all. There used to be a video from some crazy Finns where they strapped a D24 to a dilapidated 740, stuck a stack out the hood (complete with flapper valve) and thrashed it in a field to the sound of Jessica Simpson's rendition of Take My Breath Away. I don't see how I can go wrong with this And some tinkering with the Injection pump and replacing the injectors and turbo
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 03:42 |
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Their fabrication was top notch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu1fbjQPKdQ
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 03:43 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Their fabrication was top notch. That's it. Next Mad Max, they need a totally inappropriate Turbodiesel Volvo 740 setup like this. True Apocalypse style. .....is that coolant pouring into the intake?
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 03:46 |
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I'm going to be honest with you. Yes. It's water injection and not at all a clumsy hack to keep the engine working for long enough to survive an entire filming with that China Syndrome radiator leak.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 03:47 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I'm going to be honest with you. Chances are the pressure in the coolant is due to a cracked head, apparently common with those engines if you don't let them warm up. But that is bad rear end.
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# ? Aug 1, 2015 03:51 |
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Unless your compressor has its own oil supply, you're going to have to change it. R12 systems use mineral oil, which is not soluble in r152a, meaning it's likely accumulating someplace until your compressor goes dry.
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# ? Aug 3, 2015 08:04 |
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CommieGIR posted:In other news: Someone is donating me a VW/Volvo D24T 2.4l Turbodiesel Inline 6.
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# ? Aug 3, 2015 16:10 |
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mafoose posted:Unless your compressor has its own oil supply, you're going to have to change it. Its PARTIALLY soluble in R152, its completely not soluble in R134, at least according to the tests I'm finding. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1443&context=iracc http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/22/21162.pdf So yeah, I probably need to change the oil out, but its not likely to be a major issue right now. Wrar posted:My parents had a Volvo 240 Diesel and it was a massive piece of poo poo. Apparently the design was modified from a 4cyl and it never oiled properly. It spent more time in the shop than out of it. From what I've been reading, the issue was exasperated by people not letting the engine warm up before use, and it demands synthetic only oil. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Aug 3, 2015 |
# ? Aug 3, 2015 19:54 |
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Considering that we lived in Miami at the time and we idled it out of the neighborhood being warm wasn't really an issue, and my dad was a huge believer in synthetic oil. It's just an awful engine.
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# ? Aug 3, 2015 20:31 |
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Wrar posted:Considering that we lived in Miami at the time and we idled it out of the neighborhood being warm wasn't really an issue, and my dad was a huge believer in synthetic oil. It's just an awful engine. Warming up for a diesel doesn't just mean temperature, you have to sit and let the engine get the oil moving around. For instance: Detroit Diesels recommend a 5-10 minute warm up period before use in order to get everything lubricated before use or they will wear out prematurely.
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# ? Aug 3, 2015 20:35 |
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CommieGIR posted:Warming up for a diesel doesn't just mean temperature, you have to sit and let the engine get the oil moving around. As for the DD, they also piss oil out of every orifice (and thru the block)... and everywhere else.
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# ? Aug 4, 2015 02:05 |
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mafoose posted:Unless your compressor has its own oil supply, you're going to have to change it. Mafoose, I ended up charging the system with a can of Ester oil, checked compatibility and that seems to be the best match for R152A. Seems to be making it a little happier.
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# ? Aug 6, 2015 00:57 |
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CommieGIR posted:Mafoose, I ended up charging the system with a can of Ester oil, checked compatibility and that seems to be the best match for R152A. Seems to be making it a little happier. Esther oil works good on retrofits, that's what I'm running in mine.
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# ? Aug 6, 2015 07:46 |
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I am glad to hear your conversion is working out well. I am planning on doing my Range Rover Classic AC with R152a, but my system doesn't have a low side cut off, just a TXV valve. I assume this will do all the poo poo that a low side cut off will, but I need to pick motronics brain a little more.
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# ? Aug 6, 2015 17:48 |
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I found out why the 90 refused to idle properly with the AC on: The Throttle Valve Closed switch was pushed back and could not get contact, so the ECU was assuming that the engine was always at partial-full throttle, causing the Idle Air Solenoid to open late. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Aug 17, 2015 |
# ? Aug 17, 2015 02:21 |
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CommieGIR posted:I found out why the 90 refused to idle properly with the AC on: Those microswitches are a pain. I had the full-throttle switch get gummed up once, and it caused all sorts of havoc. Sort of like a sticky secondary butterfly in a throttle body or Carb.
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# ? Aug 21, 2015 21:02 |
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sharkytm posted:Those microswitches are a pain. I had the full-throttle switch get gummed up once, and it caused all sorts of havoc. Sort of like a sticky secondary butterfly in a throttle body or Carb. That's what I was hunting. I was sure it was either an Idle Air Control Valve or O2 Sensor/Mass Air Flow Sensor issue, and found that. A week later, and its working great.
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CommieGIR posted:That's what I was hunting. I was sure it was either an Idle Air Control Valve or O2 Sensor/Mass Air Flow Sensor issue, and found that. Oh, are you still interested in VW Snowflakes? I think we chatted about it, and it got bypassed. I've got a bunch, and no VWs onto which to install them. I keep one set for the wife's Fit (wrong taper lugs instead of wheel bolts, yeah yeah yeah), but the rest can certainly go away.
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