You could be right shaz! OR. It could just be old age and a poor memory? Remember the Sebring Sprite I mentioned a few months ago, on another thread? Well, I have just remembered it was a Speedwell Sprite! It's looking cleaner now. Can't shift the muck off the gearbox though! The bloody thing was filled with smelly red ATF for some reason? Now the new seals are fitted it will be filled with G 052. The hardest job was removing the filler/level plug. Even with the correct hex socket and a breaker bar it took some shifting! It was distorted, compared with the drain plug! I had to bash the periphery to close up the hex. Note the crack! Someone must have used an impact wrench to fit it when they put in the AFT! Some casings are different. The 90 20V Q casing dose not have this lug. It was not cast in, so the tubular manifold will clear on the 300 or so 193 bhp homologation specials that AUDI built. There is a service bulletin with instructions to remove the lug, with a hacksaw, if fitting a new case to a 90 20V Q as the original casing is NLA. Funny what one can find out when someone starts you thinking! OK folks. What the feck caused this damage? It certainly was not my doing!
Any corresponding damage on the casing behind the flange? could be someone's jammed something through the hole to lock up half the diff?
Back on the road at 1900 hours Sunday. Beautiful smooth snick-snick change now! Although, I believe that I need to bleed the slave cylinder, with the car on the level, somehow? The lift is at the end of pedal travel and I think air is still in there due to the nose being higher than the bleed nipple? Lifting with one arm, whilst laid on my back, and packing the unit with wood, till it was high enough for the trolley jack to go back under, was hard work! I wasted about 3 hours as I had to make some gaskets for the inner CV joints. One was completely missing, and the other was about 60% intact. Finding 1.5mm gasket paper, scalpel handle, new blade, double sided tape, compass, etc., took about 2 hours! No damage to the casing behind. All I can think is that the idots who had the box off before did not line up the flange and CV joint properly and took a hammer to one of the bolts till the flange spun and lined up. They used a chisel to loosen the two large Torx screws on the relay shaft!
All my Golfs and Audis seem to have had them? But: VWMS don't bother with them. Of course, SAABs used needle roller bearing 'Bipod's on the 96 and 'Tripod's on the 99. So gaskets were not required.
dave do you know if that's a 240mm flywheel and sprung clutch in that box? might be an option for folks with 6spd mk4s wanting to dump the twin mass flywheelif it's the right size
I think the starter spur gear engages from the engine side on the Audi. No use for a transverse setup which engages from the gearbox side.
