So if anyone is doing a 1.8t oil pump conversion I maybe able to help out with the gear
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Found these dumped on my doorstep.
The troublesome Autodoc parts I ordered almost 2 months ago have appeared today.
The wife and i went out with the woofers for a lunchtime walk, came back and found the box just left on the doorstep, half a delivery label and half open box..
Despite there previous promises, no refund has ever been issued and my card issuers are still chasing a refund.
So I suppose I might as well us them, after all I've paid for them, well i paid for SKF ones not stark ones, anyway that's another rant for another day.
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Hello folks, its around MOT time for the old bus - Last weekend I started working on it. Now follows the litany of disasters that occurred in the preperation......
First.
Checked the brakes. After inspection, decided to change both front Disks (Heavily ridged on inner faces) & fit new brake pads all round. Front rebuild went ok, caliper pistons retracted all the way in to allow for new disks & pads, assembly went Perfectly OK.
Moved to the rear - found drivers side was seized solid on the sliding pillars. After some persuasive (heavy metal) antics, managed to get Caliper off & Sliding Pins removed. Strangely, only the drivers side caused problems - Passenger side went relatively easily.
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They had been assembled sometime in the past with Coppaslip coated on them. THIS IS A VERY DEFINITE NO NO! Coppaslip is NOT a lubricant, its an anti-seize compound designed for Bolts & other NON MOVING parts. If used on moving parts, it will congeal & basically stick the parts together eventually like glue. After a careful cleaning of pins (& mounting holes), both were perfectly reusable so reassembly done with Lithium based waterproof grease.
Now got brakes done both ends, BUT before finishing, rear shock absorbers are now in line for replacement. Sounds easy? NOPE!
The bottom bolt on drivers side required an EXTREME amount of force to get the nut off. Like hanging full bodyweight on longest breaker bar type of force. However, finally got there (took a while) so now got shiny new shocks on too. Strangely, once again, the passenger side went much more easily as sliding pins were greased correctly.
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NOW, stick the wheels on, go for a drive to start bedding in new pads. Sounds easy? WRONG!!!
After fitting front wheels, found that, with the new disks/Pads they now foul the wheels!
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The wheels I fitted last year are off an Audi A5 - I assumed because they fitted OK (at the time) all was OK but WRONG - obviously the offset is different. Blood E Ell. Nothings ever easy.........
Only one thing to fix this.......... Wheel spacers. So, onto the interwebby thing & ordered up some 5mm spacers with extended bolts. That should do it.
All procedures now halted as ran out of weekend & have to continue earning a living.
Back this weekend to get on with it. WRONG AGAIN. Got 20 of the wrong type of bolt - tapered instead of radius. Blood E Ell again. Should have looked more closely at the fleabay page.
SO, fit the spacers then. Problem. Being universal ones, there is nothing to hold them in place whilst fitting the wheels. Time for some improvisation.
After a look about the garage, found a couple of thick plastic washers so drew up a shape, fabricated them from the plastic - hey presto, spacers now sit OK so wheels can be fitted easily.
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SO, car back on wheels, everything hunky dory - temporary bolts fitted & correct bolts ordered up (fleabay again) .
NOW, whats next. I've been putting off fitting a new thermostat for a long time now - I'll do that as theres plenty daylight left.
AND the new litany of disaster commences. A story for another day as Its not over yet........
Cleaned this dirty ****** out
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Have you kept to the same manifold it changed to one without swirl flaps?
Had the old bus MOTd today, passed again with no issues.
One advisory, that both inner edges of my front tyres are wearing, possibly related to my lowering her.
Removed your duplicate posts chap...
Have you kept to the same manifold it changed to one without swirl flaps?
You have dpf ?
Wanna do the egr delete myself but don’t wanna block my dpf
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No I haven't got a DPF, my engine is a BRE. To remove your EGR you would need to address your DPF too or I believe it will clog.
The manifold I got with no swirl flaps was a BKD. £40 off eBay.
Here's my thread.
https://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/bre-brd-intake-manifold-swirl-flap.421649/
No I haven't got a DPF, my engine is a BRE. To remove your EGR you would need to address your DPF too or I believe it will clog.
The manifold I got with no swirl flaps was a BKD. £40 off eBay.
Here's my thread.
https://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/bre-brd-intake-manifold-swirl-flap.421649/
Bkd? Off an 06 a3 ?
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Cheeky remap!
Dialled it in to 340bhp as the car is high mileage (141k and rising!!), worry about bending a rod if we pushed it to its limit.
Im really happy with it. Nice power delivery and pulls well through the gears.
The traction control kicked in for the first time since I’ve owned the car when coming out of a round about this afternoon ha ha!
Didn’t get a print out of the dyno results (thank you Covid!) but they are emailing it over so will post it once received.
Overall I’m really pleased. Need to put it against some scoobies and stock S3’s now, see how she gets on
Also, Hopefully going to take my stock and hybrid k03’s apart this weekend.
I’m interested to see the difference in compressors and want to take a look at the seals as both failed!
Mot coming up thought I’d better get these done
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They look a out as good as my ones did.
I put shorter ones on the rear though, so she doesn't bottom out on the stops.