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Originally Posted by Nollywood
I for one am happy you've found the culprit. I would have hated to see this S8 parted out to act as organ donor to a project ride.  |
I'm happy that I've found the culprit. I haven't decided yet whether the car will yet donate it's vital parts or not. I will put it back together and drive it around but as the cheapest S8 engine I could find was £1500 and that was without Loom, ECU etc... this is still the cheapest way for me to get the V8!
Anywhooo... on with the photos.
Sooo the car is on the ramp.
First thing out of the way is the exhaust. We ended up cutting through the clamp bolts and some of the flange bolts. The clamps did however still slide out of the way.
Yes I did start it up like this
Couldn't help myself. I'm very tempted to do something silly with the exhaust as it sounds soooooo good!
One CAT out of the way with Lambda sensor. You can get to the wiring from under the front carpets which thankfully just lift up.
The downpipes are a real sod to get off. Some of the nuts are accessible from above, some from below but it took all manner of extensions, UJs etc to get to them individually.
The pile of stuff removed grows...
Wheels off to get to the driveshaft bolts and CV boot shields.
Axle stand out of shot.
It was at this point that I realised that the starter motor was going to be one of the toughest things to remove. You've got to remove this to get to the torque convertor bolts. The problem is that it sits behind the right hand engine mount. FUN! You can't remove the mount easily as there's no room.
You can just see the bottom starter motor bolt in this photo.
I ended up loosening the subframe, working out just how far I could drop the bolt out so that it still 3 turns of threads going into the bodyshell.
With this, I managed to get the engine mount just out of the way to get to the starter motor.
A little bit more jiggery pokery and I managed to get bolt the engine mount and starter motor out of the way.
Now we can get to the three flex plate TO torque convertor bolts out.
Here's how the starter motor and engine mount sit when bolted up.
If anyone ever asks you to 'just' change the starter motor on an Audi V8... run away!
More to come...
MG