rear main seal leak
auditude at cox.net
auditude at cox.net
Fri Jan 14 11:44:17 PST 2011
Hi Bernie,
Yeah, I was going to mention that I did try some Rislone "rear main seal repair" (ha ha, good marketing name) treatment and so far is hasn't worked. I will try something else or try again before I go so far as to drop the tranny. BTDT on an '88 5ktq and it's a bit of a chore.
http://www.rislone.ca/34250.htm
Is there any particular brand of snake oil you recommend besides that one?
What it might be is that the clutch was replaced and they botched the rear main seal install. Actually that doesn't seem likely as the PO family was more of the type to go to the dealer, I think. Perhaps when I inspect things more closely I'll find that it's coming from somewhere else nearby.
Cheers,
Kenneth
---- Bernie Benz <b.benz at charter.net> wrote:
> Ken,
> Give those leaking rotary shaft seals the Snake Oil treatment. Mine
> are original at 230K and still running dry. Clutch also.
>
> Bernie
>
> 2
> On Jan 14, 2011, at 10:52 AM, <auditude at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, my 200q20v has a leak apparently coming from the rear main
> > seal. Even worse is that the clutch seems pretty good, it engaged
> > low near the floor and isn't hard to depress, which to mean means
> > it's still pretty meaty and may have been changed. So either their
> > didn't change the rear main seal or when they did they screwed it
> > up. Putz! lol I was considering just replacing just the seal to
> > save the clutch money for other stuff, which is potentially putzy
> > move, but it would come out of my own hobby labor rather than a
> > maintenance budget.
> >
> > So was the 034 200q20v a "one-off" build or is it something they
> > are offering? I could not find it on the website. You had it
> > installed for fitment testing and then gave it back to them? So
> > they might have a prototype bouncing around?
> >
> > Did it drone?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Kenneth
> >
> > ---- robert weinberg <centaurus3200 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> the 034 200q20v turboback is proprietary to the 200q20v. i know
> >> this because
> >> they used my car to design the exhaust ;-)
> >>
> >> i didn't buy it to keep it on the car because i was already angry
> >> at the car for
> >> pissing oil all over my garage and having to replace the cam and
> >> crank seals.
> >> not really the car's fault because the previous owner replaced the
> >> timing belt
> >> 10k miles ago BUT did not replace the seals nor the waterpump and
> >> roller. putz!
> >>
> >> but the notion of blowing another grand on top of the repair bill was
> >> prohibitive at the time. i do wish i kept the exhaust in
> >> retrospect though. not
> >> sure how much they want for the turboback now - this was in 2008.
> >>
> >> see ya,
> >> Robby
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: "auditude at cox.net" <auditude at cox.net>
> >> To: 200q20v at audifans.com
> >> Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 9:36:54 AM
> >> Subject: 034 turbo back on 200q20v? (firtment, instead of an S4/6)
> >>
> >> Referencing this thread from last month, has anyone installed an
> >> 034 turbo back
> >> exhaust on a 200q20v? It's designed for a C4 S4/S6, which from
> >> the Stromung
> >> discussions has a different tailpipe location from the 200q20v but
> >> is otherwise
> >> close enough.
> >>
> >>
> >> Is the tailpipe location issue the same as with the Stromung, or
> >> does 034 have
> >> some sort of a 200q20v-specific exhaust that I can't find on their
> >> website?
> >> Robby's post sounds as if there might be a variation specifically
> >> for the
> >> 200q20v.
> >>
> >> The 034 tailpipes look like they are slipped over the dual outlets
> >> of the
> >> Magnaflow muffler and welded directly to the back plate of the
> >> muffler body. If
> >> there isn't already an accomodation for the 200q20v then it would
> >> be cool to be
> >> able to get the exhaust without the tips welded on (I'd still like
> >> to have the
> >> tips). I noticed in the pics that the welds for the tips don't
> >> appear to be
> >> quite as awesome-looking (or at least not like the tiny perfect
> >> bicycle frame
> >> style welds) at the closeup pics of the downpipe welds at the WG
> >> merge joint,
> >> for example, so maybe they are put on at the end (of the process
> >> that is, ha ha)
> >> or manually or something.
> >>
> >> One more question, which maybe I'll find a answer better on
> >> Motorgeek, but with
> >> all the revisions to the Stromung system to elminate drone, how
> >> does the 034
> >> system fare for exhaust drone? It just has just the one muffler
> >> at the end.
> >> The 034 system seems less expensive than the Stromung prices I'd
> >> heard from
> >> earlier group buys.
> >>
> >> I'm curious at the moment because there's another round of
> >> Stromung group buy
> >> going around and I'm asking myself the question about whether I
> >> want one for a
> >> 200q20v. In upgrading a 200q20v, I prefer the mods to be
> >> transferrable to an
> >> urS-car in case I get one someday (and if I do that I'll want the
> >> tips to look
> >> as clean/original/unmodified as I can get them, but I'm thinking I
> >> can't have it
> >> both ways).
> >>
> >>
> >> Speaking of that, does anyone have any pics of an unmodified
> >> Stromung on a
> >> 200q20v? I know Taka had one on his car but he had extended the
> >> tips, and I
> >> don't recall seeing how that looked.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Kenneth
> >>
> >> robert weinberg centaurus3200 at yahoo.com wrote:
> >>
> >> "the 034 turbo back for the 200q20v is about $1k plus
> >> installation, i believe.
> >> it
> >>
> >> is California legal. my guess is that they can use any cat with
> >> their exhaust -
> >> not just ones that will fit audi exhausts. hence the cats are
> >> cheaper."
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