The front subframe is in! With a little help from my Mrs.

Edited 26 April, 20179 yr by RobClubley

Yay!

 

Very pleasing!

If you're anything like me, you'll be dying to spend every hour of every day on it now it's so close to being done....then you come across a problem and wished you'd never started! Keep up the good work, the end's in sight!

39 minutes ago, boylers11 said:

If you're anything like me, you'll be dying to spend every hour of every day on it now it's so close to being done....then you come across a problem and wished you'd never started! Keep up the good work, the end's in sight!

 

Yep!

So many more jobs to do. Cleaning stuff, for a start. And torquing up bolts, and adding fluids, and removing the bumpers to add some missing seals and clips, etc etc.

 

Excitement...followed by disappointment. I bought the wrong brake pads. Fail.

 

Rear subframe and struts are in.

Took the brake dust shields off the GT rear beam. I was hoping to use them but they're quite different.

So I ordered a pair of new ones manufactured by Quattro Corner in the UK.
I also finally gave in and ordered a few things from Audi Tradition. Waiting for the call to pay duty on that stuff.

These look more like it! Thanks to speed.co.nz for getting them to me super quickly.

 

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Edited 9 May, 20179 yr by RobClubley

Brand new stainless steel brake dust shields for the rear, from Quattro Corner. The quality is excellent.

Bit better than these:

 

Got home to more presents. A box from Audi Tradition.

Shiny new parts to bolt onto an old car are the best thing EVER!

We have back brakes!
The lines seem a bit tight but they're slightly longer than the originals. Flexis are just test fitted for now.

 

Looking good Rob, coming together nicely now.

Bit of progress this weekend.
Connected up the brake lines, torqued up the front driveshaft bolts, repaired and fitted the rear left driveshaft, broke off the corroded shielding on the ABS sensors, re-wrapped and re-fitted them, replaced a broken wire to the rear diff, not sure what it does (yet), looked at a few other things and pondered them

I thought I'd better clean this out..

Yay, got this nut back on. I damaged it trying to get it out of the hub.

And it's in

Brake lines are all complete. No fluid in there yet.

Ticked a few things off the list but I keep adding more.

The damaged fuel line and the replacement I bought from Audi tradition. Not sure that's the right one 

I'm itching to clean it. Need to wait until Final Touch Wellington to do it properly.


 

I think quattros all had an electrically locking rear diff.

Edited 28 May, 20179 yr by KenONeill

7 hours ago, KenONeill said:

I think quattros all had an electrically locking rear diff.

 

The centre and rear diff locks are vacuum operated, by a rotary knob. But there might be some sort of electronic actuator involved as well. Need to do some reading, I have some manuals that I've only scanned through.

It's connected to a feed from the front of the car and an earth so it's not a sensor. 

That's awesome. I wish I had the time, money and patience to do it to that level.

Last night I decided to put some brake fluid in mine. Got the master cylinder and bias valve bled then went to do the right rear and fluid started leaking from the left rear. I hadn't crimped it properly and it hadn't sealed. So I ended up cutting the end off the hard line and re-crimping it while brake fluid dripped out all over my hands and tools. Got it to seal and did the other side but now I can't get any fluid out of the rear left caliper so I think I may have managed to seal it completely somehow!!
By this time it was 10pm and I was over it so will re-visit that one.

 

Finished bleeding the brakes. Need to do it one more time with an assistant to double check.
Also filled up the coolant and power steering fluid.

Fitted the new fuel tank to pump hose. Doing it like this seems to make sense and I didn't need to cut it. Need to sort out the clips and stuff to make them better. 

I couldn't resist...

Also got the handbrake connected up last night. That was a bit fiddly.

I'm getting there bit by bit!!
Just bit the bullet and ordered a Milltek exhaust through NZ Performance Tuning.

Don't forget to tighten all of your hose clamps.

I borrowed some big boy tools from my mate. Got the hub nuts tightened in two minutes.

Put 4l of petrol in. None leaked
Just need to double check the brake bleeding and I can put the wheels back on.

Unsuccessful attempt at firing up the quattro

https://www.facebook.com/ProjectRustyquattro/videos/1055379811228981/

Attached some wheels. Still have tiny bubbles in the brake fluid when I bleed the front left. Need to sort that!

 

Oh and I've misplaced my locking wheel nut key. Sigh.

Edited 11 June, 20178 yr by RobClubley