Hello All! First post on the forum.

Last week I purchased a 1993 945 Wagon in excellent condition with about 350,000 km. Car was properly serviced and maintained with OEM parts. The engine (B200F) and transmission were both replaced with new units in 2006, and have about 100,000 km on them since then. Within last two years, radiator was replaced, and within last year, head gasket and water pump.

Car has a few minor issues I could use some help with. First, it has an intermittent stalling issue when stopped at red lights or when idling in drive. Engine just cuts out, but has no problem restarting. I am getting a code 2-1-4, crank position sensor, so perhaps that is the issue, though it may also be related to two other issues I have since discovered:

1) It seems to be missing a hose or two from the air intake system. There is also a small broken rubber tube and plastic part just in front of the driver side firewall, which seems like was some sort of inline air-freshener or filter. Here is a link to three photos, can anyone identify what is missing and/or broken, and if it they are important to replace/repair?

http://goo.gl/8u4uDA

2) From what I have learned on this forum, my car has the incorrect expansion tank cover. It has the green 1.5 Kpa cover, and I can hear a slight hissing/gurgling sound after driving from the tank before it de-pressurizes, and there is a very small coolant leak where the small high pressure connection screws into the top rear of the radiator. The leak appears to be seeping from around the larger threads which are flush against the radiator. As mentioned above, the radiator was new about two years ago and appears to still be in excellent shape. I don't know when the green cap was installed, but from what I've been reading, this may be the cause of my current coolant leak issue.

Thanks in advance for any advice and input!

Cheers,

Michael

 

the missing hose from the bottom open tube on the first pic to the tube on the heat riser on the exhaust header of the 2nd pick is the 'heat riser tube', totally unneccessary. its purpose is to help the car warm up faster in very cold weather. it MAY be an 'inspection item' if you have smog inspections (I gather from your 'km' and 'B200F', you're not in the US of A, the US only got B230F/FT/FD models).

the filter in the 3rd picture is for the windshield washer fluid.

I use a green cap here in California on my B230FT 2.3L turbo, its been fine. the fitting you describe, that sounds like a transmission cooler line? the overflow bottle (expansion tank) has 2 fittings, a skinny one goes to the top side of the radiator, and a ~2cm hos goes to the lower main radiator hose (I think?)...


my 1992 745 turbo

the metal fitting visible in that picture on the back side of the radiator is the transmission cooler line.