Wanted: Intake Manifold Linkage Arms
 

For my 2002 S8. The one inch ones please.

Does anyone have one or two?

I made mine in the end, quite simple to do and have worked perfectly +++

Yes, I saw the thread - impressive. I was hoping for a quicker solution though.

Right, I've ordered the bits to make mine too. I can't find them anywhere and I'm not paying £80 (including delivery) for the metal ones from the USA.

I'm also investigating getting a CAD file made up and having some 3D printed. But that will take a bit longer.

I'd have probably tried to repair them, unless some of the parts had gone missing of course.
I find that most plastic components, unless there's very limited space, can be glued back together and then reinforced externally to be even stronger than initially.

Part of it is missing! :(

Possibly still on the under tray, but I quite like Sir Will's solution.

You could make a mould from the remaining link, using Polymorph, then use that to make a new link from some sort of strong epoxy resin. Might take quite a bit of work/finishing to get the ball sockets right though.

I was a cheapskate as i was simply not prepared to pay that money either and used a metal cable tie pinched at either end to stop it rolling of the ball joints if you get me - i love cable ties of any material !! One of my favourite 'tools' - doesn't say much does it :)

Im being lazy like my fix but pls link your fix - be interested to see how i could have done it better !!

Jim, why don't you order alu billet ones from the gruvenparts? This is what I did.
If you decide to take that path please make sure you order the short S8 ones as ordinary linkage arms A8 are longer.

http://www.gruvenparts.com/audi-vw-4...-linkage-arms/

I've been tempted to buy some of those a few times myself.

Did you buy the pivot levers too?:
http://www.gruvenparts.com/vw-audi-4...-pivot-levers/