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Bolt mystery
Hello, I hope you are all keeping well during this crazy time.
I have been away for a while, life got in the way, but I'm still driving the old D2. I was doing an oil change today, and discovered this large bolt on my undertray. A bit worrying! The main work I had done recently, and by recently I mean around 5 months ago, was a steering rack change after the old one leaked out all the steering fluid. I managed to get under the car, but as far as I can see the steering rack bolts look different to this one. I did notice that one location on the gearbox seems to be missing a bolt. I checked inside and there is definitely thread on the engine block side of this hole. Could I be missing a gearbox-to-engine bolt? Oh I forgot to say, its a manual gearbox, so the bolt pattern is probably different to the auto box. The parts diagram does seem to show a bolt in this location, but its a different type of bolt than the one I found. The photo is from the left side of the gearbox looking forward. Would someone changing a steering rack need to remove the gearbox? Thanks for your help. |
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