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Excellent work!
If you were to use rivnuts on the rear heatshield, would you have to remove the carpet to drill through just the floor and not damage the carpet? |
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I will be using rivnuts on those yes, but I won't be taking the carpet out. I'll just use a stop on the drill bit.
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Any specific cleaning guide to pass on to the detailer?
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Paul Gosport UK ________________________ Audi S8 2002 FE Avus Silver / Extended Red Leather. Daily Driver: BMW 3 series GT - Just more practical for my camping trips! |
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I'll be coating the floor with the same sealant I use in the engine bay, so in theory it should remain relatively hydrophobic for a while and be easy to wash off any muck. That certainly worked on my Mum's Beetle cabrio which I did back in 2019, although that doesn't do many miles. It certainly makes it a nicer place to work when its nice and clean underneath |
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Queue is behind me lads
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2008 (facelift) S8 with B&O, ACC, glass sunroof, reversing camera, front and rear heated seats, ceramic brakes, homelink, electric side and rear blinds, ski load through, heated fan washer jets, remote boot closing, de-flapped manifold, fridge, umbrella holder |
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I think you might have missed the most important part of that sentence
The fuel line rubbers cleaned up nicely in Evaporust, so then I soaked them in Autoglym rubber conditioner for a while and then put them back on the car with new clips and hardware The paint is finally dry on the subframe so I put the engine and gearbox on it, ready to go back in the car |
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PS pump, new AC compressor and a few other bits back on the engine
I discovered an interesting thing about FE suspension today, specifically a slight side-effect of using the PF lower front arm since the FE one is NLA. The anti roll bar links don't fit properly, which puts the bushes constantly under tension and will wear them out in short order. There's a gap between the mounting boss on the arm and the bar. Because on the PF arm, the mounting sits slightly further outboard by 3mm or so Bizarrely, the PF anti roll bar (top) is actually shorter than the FL, which would appear to compound the problem. I'll figure this out when I put the PF back together. The A4 and A6 have this gap by design. They have the same design of ARB links, but with a small spacer on one of the bushes to accommodate this gap. I've ordered a couple of these to see if they fit better. Arms, arb, downpipes and driveshafts back on so this is pretty much ready to go back in The grip-washers came in for the heat shields too Final cleaning of the tunnel and floor tomorrow and the engine can go back in |
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Paul Gosport UK ________________________ Audi S8 2002 FE Avus Silver / Extended Red Leather. Daily Driver: BMW 3 series GT - Just more practical for my camping trips! |
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Yeah same on Big Red too, and a couple of others. The B5 links should sort it and they are the same price.
One bonus, ish, of using the PF front arms is that the bespoke 20" headlight levelling link is no longer needed and the standard link can be used instead. Good if it's missing completely like this one. Less good if you already have a good 20" link I guess. |
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Regarding the drop links, have you ever thought of poly bushing them or do you prefer original rubber ones? The drop links seem to be similar to ones used in many Audis, I know my S8 (D3) is exactly the same as an A6 diesel of the same era
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2008 (facelift) S8 with B&O, ACC, glass sunroof, reversing camera, front and rear heated seats, ceramic brakes, homelink, electric side and rear blinds, ski load through, heated fan washer jets, remote boot closing, de-flapped manifold, fridge, umbrella holder |
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