Cooling Fan FIASCO… (RARE Abandoned Audi Turbo – Part 7)

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• Audi really did a good job on the 200 series. Electric water pump and fan cooling after engine shut-down!

  YUM

• No complaints Ivan this car is going to make you rich.

• Gauge wire integrity?

• My Aussie 2006 NON-turbo 3.6 litre EFI V6 VZ Holden Commodore leaves its cooling fans on for exactly 1 minute sometimes after engine switch-off, & I'm not sure why?

• I said it with the Triumph and now this one, the owner had better get up to speed with basic mechanical know how to kept it on the road cause they will always be tinkering.

• I wonder how many people that jack has hurt or killed.

• The Audi series is getting old, This car must belong to a relative or a friend, no one could afford all the time you've spent on this heap

• Ivan I love watching you work. Great at explaining everything. I’m a retired auto mechanic just a couple of years now. Still work occasionally on side jobs.
  You mentioned that the older cars you couldn’t use a scan tool to help diagnose. GM have to say you can even on OBD 1 systems you can look at ECT. Chrysler you can also
  Keep up the fantastic videos and hope you and family have a great Christmas and New Year
  And stay warm. I think I’ll just stay here in Ga

• so this 91 is not even ODB1

• When my friend and I worked on his "New" 1991 Explorer it looked like your Audi with all the corrosion. We stripped the interior and then we disconnected every electrical connection, cleaned, and tightened them and used electrical grease on them and… we had 3 electrical problems to track down which were all easy repairs. He is still driving it today and NO electrical gremlins!
  Sometimes it just pays to put away your test equipment, roll up your sleeves, and do the hard work. The 2 days it cost us easily saved us weeks of diagnostic work.

• There is a reason they start with OWW! Known in the industry as the 4 rings of death, lol.

• I don’t know. Turning it into bottle caps may have been a better option. 🙂

• Are we having fun yet? You mentioned in this video that you can't plug in a scanner; it is a 1991 model; an OBDI car. 1996 was the first year of OBD II. GREAT VIDEO!

• The bill for this job is going to be frightening……

• Great job Ivan. Brings back memories. I do remember having to replace the multifunction coolant sensor and the thermoswitch on these cars but remarkably as complex as the system was I didn’t come across many problems. Probably the most complicated cooling circuit on any car. Guess you could say life before CAN and PWM strategy was complex with many points of failure. I feel I was fortunate to learn during this era. No scan tool meant you had to understand a circuit and develop a good diagnostic strategy. Personally I like the track diagram or Valley Forge diagrams as an instructor once called them. Once you get a hang it is easy to follow. Life without a scan tool was a real struggle at times. Pretty much a norm for most European cars in the 80’s. Or at least the ones I worked on.

• It never fails to amaze me how over complicated a simple cooling system can be. I'm with you Ivan. My brain needs a cooling fan too after looking over those wire diagrams. Gezzz.

• LOL……its hair pullin time….think thats why it was abandoned

• 🍷Happy Holiday🍷

• I once heard that projects like this were a labor of love for the owner. The more I watch this I am beginning to see the title to a country song emerge. Perhaps I got the labor, he got the love. Jerry Reed could finish it if only…. This is quite a project. Merry Christmas and thank you.

• The ONLY thing that sucks about this awesome series is that it arrives in the mornings when I’m at work, so I took a vacation day for tomorrow and started My Christmas/ New Year’s break a day early! Thanks Ivan! 👍👍🇺🇸

• Good to see you making progress however in years to come when your body becomes like mine you will decline these type of jobs as it will take you a month to get over the strain on your body.Cheeres mate

• One of the most enjoyable mini-series of all time. Merry Christmas! #MAGA!

• A left hand thread on the jackscrew? I wonder why they went to that much trouble.

• awesome, as usual.

• Wait so why did it overheat then previously when you test drove? Do we know thermostat, water pump are ok?

• That jack was designed with a lost leg. I hope whoever decides to use it doesn't lose one of their own. Sketchy on level concrete, disaster in the dirt.

• Maybe check if cluster caps/bad caps?

• If it has an ecu it isn't a good investment as a "Classic" car – it's going to become – at some stage – a money pit. If you want a classic, get a pre-ecu one. Thank me later. I work on 'em, I see the bills…

• There is also a nice surpise under the rear seat. A mercury switch! Engingeers in the 80's discovered, when it is very slippery, you could lock all 4 wheels on 4wd cars, and the ABS unit thinks, all good, we stopped and won't release the brakes. As accelometers were not a thing in the cars in the early 80's, they just added a mercury switch, that would signal the ABS unit, we are still moving, release the brakes.
  Regarding the ABS, there is a combi relay nr. 76 under the dash, it switches off the ABS when diff lock is engaged or button on the dash is pushed. Burnt out coil is common failure on these relays, wokring one could be hard to find. I've seen it fixed with adding an regular external relay to it, and wiring it in place of the burnt out one.

• I like that series of videos about that nice Audi. Since I am from Germany, I know these cars, but you don’t see them on the road anymore. I have a nice 89 Chevy caprice for the summer sundays, much easier to deal with problems than what I see with this Audi, and I love the V8s. Only boring 4 or even 3 cylinders here in Germany

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