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Old 1st April 2019, 10:16 PM
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Those of you of a nervous disposition might want to skip ahead a bit here so here's a picture of some ridiculously cute bunnies:











Are you still here? Are you really sure???

Here's Lisbeth and Gizmo while you prepare yourself....




Ok, don't say I didn't warn you......














This is the driver's side tensioner as it came out




Holy ****!!! The pad broke in half on the drive here The engine literally had minutes to live! I removed the tensioner and the pad stayed in the engine, broken in half sitting on the chain. One more cold start and it would have spat out the pieces of the pad and valves would have met pistons.

I had to go and have some cake after I found this. I forgot to take any more photos.


Talk about dodging a bullet.
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Old 2nd April 2019, 10:26 AM
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Thanks goodness for the bunnies, cats and cake! That was a near miss for Stephen. I wonder what mine will be like?
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Old 2nd April 2019, 04:24 PM
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So close

MJ - wife wants to knnow the breed of the cats (not interested in the near engine fatality...)?
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Old 2nd April 2019, 04:39 PM
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They are Maine Coons They're about a year old in the pic. They are both considerably larger now!
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Old 2nd April 2019, 07:20 PM
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They are Maine Coons They're about a year old in the pic. They are both considerably larger now!
I want another Maine Coon - loved mine (30th birthday present!) - this time we should have two

Great swerve on the engine destruction stakes!
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Old 2nd April 2019, 11:18 PM
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Just for information, here's a genuine Audi timing belt hydraulic tensioner next to an INA one. They clearly came out of the same mould, but the INA one is missing the Audi logo and part number:



The water ways are similarly as spotless as the internals



New pump and thermostat and all new original bolts. The old bolts have the familiar green zinc coating (well, most of them are rusty by now), but new ones are black. This is a new coating which mixes better with aluminium and lasts longer.



A familiar mess down at the crank sprocket



That's better



This bushing thing has to come out - its just a sliding fit so a couple of magnetic pick-up sticks can encourage it out







With the oil seal removed the oil pump chain is visible. The sprocket for this is actually driven by friction from the bushing which is held in by the crank sprocket.



New oil seal in



Bushing back in and sprocket back on with a new bolt. The torque on this bolt is immense - 240Nm then 180°



Belt all done

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Old 4th April 2019, 08:58 AM
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Old 4th April 2019, 09:51 PM
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The bung on the front of the inlet manifold tends to perish and fall off leaving a big vacuum leak. This is an enterprising solution, but not good enough



Better



Nicht gerfingerpoken rusty oil sumps Obviously I poked this after refilling the oil, but I guess this is the best place for it to spring a leak. Sumps are still available new, but on back order so A8parts supplied a replacement next-day



Engine all buttoned up



Nice and clean now





On to the Milltek. This was originally a facelift system which had been modified to fit a pre-facelift. I had to modify it back again!





A couple of pieces of 60mm stainless tube tacked in place. This was actually several hours of fiddling and fettling which included adjusting the gearbox mounts to get the downpipes to line up!





Tig welded





All hooked up. Note no H-pipe. This was lost when it was originally modified and we decided to leave it out to see what it sounds like. Pretty damn epic actually

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Old 5th April 2019, 03:45 PM
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