Hello fellas!
As the title suggests, I'm running out of ideas and patience with my 106k mile 6-speed 1.8TFSI. I'm new to the forum, but I've studied this place like a bible over the last few years of VAG cars ownership.
I have read through tens of forum posts before posting this, and I have tried all of the advice you legends put down on here, but to no avail...
Alongside a new turbo, I've put a full Sachs clutch + DMF kit into the car a few weeks ago, and had the pleasure of driving the car for an hour or so, before I lost all gears and had to push it back home (not too far luckily). Instantly I though the new CSC has failed during the bleeding process, and luckily I had one Sachs spare from when I thought to do an SMF swap.
The gearbox came off again to get that CSC replaced, but it had no leaks or obvious failure signs - strange I thought, but replaced it anyway for peace of mind. Checked the clutch due to doubting mysef, it was the right way around, centred with a proper tool. I also heard of how ******** the bleeding blocks are, so I fitted a new one from the local Audi garage just whilst I was there. My lovely CSC collection below:
Had no luck pressure bleeding with a Gunson and leaving cap open as many forum posts suggest, so I thought let's replace the Master Clutch Cylinder and give all the seals and the plastic feed pipe some attention too. I noticed the feed pipe grommet had a bit of misting on the MC connection side, so I replaced the cylinder and changed the crappy plastic pipe to a braided silicone pipe with clamps in one go, to prevent any air being sucked in.
Tried using the Eezibleed again and after doing the workshop manual procedure: pressurising to 2.0bar and pumping 2 times a second 20 times for the Nth time, I felt the pedal firm up a bit - switched the car on, managed to get it in 1st, although within 2 seconds it lost gears AGAIN
When pressurised, I can't hear any leaks from anywhere, and the only thing making me go "hmm right " is creaking coming from the gearbox area, like an airlock would sound if compressed along with metallic noises from the new pressure plate.
I have now tried to bleed it around 8 times total, using pressure bleeding, reverse pressure bleeding, manual bleeding, gravity bleeding and even bleeding myself from dried out skin - everything I could think of and could find on forums, but the car will still not go into gear and move at all...
If any of you Audi scholars have any ideas or advice, I'm all ears! It's terrible to feel like you're falling out of love with your car after all this hard graft and £££ spent
Thanks for reading if you made it this far!
Jacob
As the title suggests, I'm running out of ideas and patience with my 106k mile 6-speed 1.8TFSI. I'm new to the forum, but I've studied this place like a bible over the last few years of VAG cars ownership.
I have read through tens of forum posts before posting this, and I have tried all of the advice you legends put down on here, but to no avail...
Alongside a new turbo, I've put a full Sachs clutch + DMF kit into the car a few weeks ago, and had the pleasure of driving the car for an hour or so, before I lost all gears and had to push it back home (not too far luckily). Instantly I though the new CSC has failed during the bleeding process, and luckily I had one Sachs spare from when I thought to do an SMF swap.
The gearbox came off again to get that CSC replaced, but it had no leaks or obvious failure signs - strange I thought, but replaced it anyway for peace of mind. Checked the clutch due to doubting mysef, it was the right way around, centred with a proper tool. I also heard of how ******** the bleeding blocks are, so I fitted a new one from the local Audi garage just whilst I was there. My lovely CSC collection below:
Had no luck pressure bleeding with a Gunson and leaving cap open as many forum posts suggest, so I thought let's replace the Master Clutch Cylinder and give all the seals and the plastic feed pipe some attention too. I noticed the feed pipe grommet had a bit of misting on the MC connection side, so I replaced the cylinder and changed the crappy plastic pipe to a braided silicone pipe with clamps in one go, to prevent any air being sucked in.
Tried using the Eezibleed again and after doing the workshop manual procedure: pressurising to 2.0bar and pumping 2 times a second 20 times for the Nth time, I felt the pedal firm up a bit - switched the car on, managed to get it in 1st, although within 2 seconds it lost gears AGAIN
When pressurised, I can't hear any leaks from anywhere, and the only thing making me go "hmm right " is creaking coming from the gearbox area, like an airlock would sound if compressed along with metallic noises from the new pressure plate.
I have now tried to bleed it around 8 times total, using pressure bleeding, reverse pressure bleeding, manual bleeding, gravity bleeding and even bleeding myself from dried out skin - everything I could think of and could find on forums, but the car will still not go into gear and move at all...
If any of you Audi scholars have any ideas or advice, I'm all ears! It's terrible to feel like you're falling out of love with your car after all this hard graft and £££ spent
Thanks for reading if you made it this far!
Jacob
