IanH's 955hp V10 Audi RS6 - Another Car Diary!
Discussion
Converted £120 worth of fossils to fun hooning around the roads of Kent, Surrey and Hampshire for the RS246 club meet, Hindhead Tunnel Run and a quick visit to the Goodwood Motor Circuit.
Slightly over 5000hp combined at the meet, with the most obnoxious sounding exhaust I've ever heard on a family car in front of me during the tunnel run!
Easily the best run I've had out in my car for what seems like 2-3 months, great day!
Slightly over 5000hp combined at the meet, with the most obnoxious sounding exhaust I've ever heard on a family car in front of me during the tunnel run!
Easily the best run I've had out in my car for what seems like 2-3 months, great day!
Bugger! 
As a "Happy Christmas" present my car has decided to do something catastrophic, involving the No1 Cylinder and a whole bunch of burnt oil! I'm in the process of stripping the intakes down and pulling the No1 plug out when my s
tty luck continued.
Not only does my spark plug tool not fit, not only has the locking part of the coil-pack plug dropped somewhere into the engine bay (supposed to stay attached) but I've also somehow managed to drop a little spring from my pliers down the intake pipe past my blue-roll "blocker" (1 squillion to one shot!) and it's now sitting nicely infront of the turbo blades (hence the boroscope shot of the turbo), which should be fun getting out if it's not magnetic!
Once I get to Halfords for a new spark plug tool on boxing day I'll eventually take the plug out and boroscope the cylinder to see whats happening and see why the plug isn't firing properly. I did notice the Crankcase Vent pipe line from the oil separator to the turbo's is dripping with fresh oil when it should only have vapour residue, not good!
Anyway Happy Christmas Everyone
As a "Happy Christmas" present my car has decided to do something catastrophic, involving the No1 Cylinder and a whole bunch of burnt oil! I'm in the process of stripping the intakes down and pulling the No1 plug out when my s
tty luck continued. Not only does my spark plug tool not fit, not only has the locking part of the coil-pack plug dropped somewhere into the engine bay (supposed to stay attached) but I've also somehow managed to drop a little spring from my pliers down the intake pipe past my blue-roll "blocker" (1 squillion to one shot!) and it's now sitting nicely infront of the turbo blades (hence the boroscope shot of the turbo), which should be fun getting out if it's not magnetic!
Once I get to Halfords for a new spark plug tool on boxing day I'll eventually take the plug out and boroscope the cylinder to see whats happening and see why the plug isn't firing properly. I did notice the Crankcase Vent pipe line from the oil separator to the turbo's is dripping with fresh oil when it should only have vapour residue, not good!
Anyway Happy Christmas Everyone
James 33 said:
Sorry to hear this. Any updates yet? Any chance it could be something simple?
Nope, turns out no-one in the whole world* has a 16mm spark plug socket for sale in an actual shop that you can just walk in and buy. There's billions* online to buy with a 2-3 day wait for the postie but all 7 shops I went in today/yesterday sell 15 & 17mm but not 16mm! So I've bought a pair from eBay for a couple of quid (Laser and Sealey).However I did manage to pick up a flexible "magnet/grabber on a stick" from tool station, to get the dropped spring out of the turbo compressor housing.
*no exaggeration!
IanH755 said:
James 33 said:
Sorry to hear this. Any updates yet? Any chance it could be something simple?
Nope, turns out no-one in the whole world* has a 16mm spark plug socket for sale in an actual shop that you can just walk in and buy. There's billions* online to buy with a 2-3 day wait for the postie but all 7 shops I went in today/yesterday sell 15 & 17mm but not 16mm! So I've bought a pair from eBay for a couple of quid (Laser and Sealey).However I did manage to pick up a flexible "magnet/grabber on a stick" from tool station, to get the dropped spring out of the turbo compressor housing.
*no exaggeration!
Justin S said:
Fingers crossed its just a failed coilpack ...........
Sadly that doesn't explain the burnt oil pouring out. It could be a valve stem oil seal (oil coating the plug stopping it firing) , failed plug damaged the bore, a blown piston, all of the above or more. Until I get the plug out I won't know how much lube I'll need before Audi/Bank Manager want a chat! cossy400 said:
But have you got the spring out with the magnet?
Tomorrows job! It should be fairly simple once I smash the crap out of the engine with a fire axe whilst foaming at the mouth and speaking in tongues after the simple job becomes nothing simple at all Spring removed for the Compressor Housing which was a suspiciously easy job
Next up is the plug removal which should be Friday depending on the Royal Fail delivering my socket in time
so hopefully the next update will be filled with pics of a pristine bore, clean spark plug and just a simple oil leak from the valve seal (pretty pretty please!)
Next up is the plug removal which should be Friday depending on the Royal Fail delivering my socket in time
so hopefully the next update will be filled with pics of a pristine bore, clean spark plug and just a simple oil leak from the valve seal (pretty pretty please!)Gassing Station | Readers' Cars | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff