Great info, eng92. I was thinking about getting this cart:
Cart
Then I could use it for other things around the garage.
Thoughts?
It says 1200# “overall” capacity. To me, that implies a uniformly distributed load over BOTH trays.
How about this? You would think the 1000# rating is for the top surface alone?
The whole thing only ways 148# so the formed top is most likely fairly light gauge steel. I would definitely use wood blocking to transfer the load to the corners.
Are you planning on separating the engine & tranny?
Yes was going to separate to at least do rear main seal while I was at it
Hey when do the rocker arms and lifters usually go bad I’m wondering if I should change them when I get to that point
They rocker arms and lifters shouldn’t go bad. It’s rare that they do… Am I remembering right that you had a bad arm failure on the cylinder head…
The one thing that can go bad is the cam cradle gasket seal. This causes oil to leak into the spark plug tube location.
Thanks Justin I was a bit worried about that and price to replace them and I’ll definitely be changing that gasket I’d be a fool to not to change them and another good thing was since starter died on me it helped me find that coolant was going into oil and I’ll be changing those gaskets in the back. Still to be honest for paying 4k for this car from an auction I’m still saving a lot of money. They literally totaled this car out from the oil filter housing gaskets leaking lol
I have another question should I get the tensioners for the car from Audi it’s self or aftermarket versions of them
I solute your bravery in doing this. As I own the car longer and longer, things like cats, O2 sensors and power steering pumps come to mind.
Driven over 30k miles since October 2019. She’s been (overall) good to me.
Awesome!!!
Congrats!
How much time did it take?
a couple days due to it being outside and freezing with snow and rain but it probably would of took me a couple hours if it wasn’t for that and it being first time i pulled it apart
Yes do the power steering pump since you have it out.
When I pulled the engine, we did not change the power steer pump and it failed afterwards when I was in the interstate. I did not have to pull the engine to change it due to having the custom manifolds otherwise the cat would have been in the way. Also, here is a picture of the cart we built.
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Ok and yeah I was thinking about the power steering pump because on my old Audi it was a A6 2006 4.2 it went and it was a nightmare changing that and since that I had to pull engine on this car due to starter I figured that it would be something where whole engine has to be removed to change it and I’m thinking about changing the ac compressor while I’m at it
Do as much as you can while it’s out, and O2’s.
Audi change list
O2 sensors
Front and rear main seal
Coolant transfer pipe o ring (4)
Valve cover gasket and inner valve cover gasket
Orifice tube and receiver dryer
Balance shaft gasket
Pulley
Tensioner
Oil cooler gasket
4 Ac line gasket
Starter
Power steering pump
Ac compressor
Replace hoses that are going bad
That’s pretty much everything? right and I wouldn’t mind changing the headers how would I go by that?
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What’s the (rough) total $ for all this, I think it covered most everything? I know @justincredible sees the value in gutting the OEM cats over spending for custom headers. Maybe even modify the OEM headers for O2 repositioning. Is that relocation documented anywhere?
@CountVohn do you have any records of where O2 relocation would go for OEM headers?