Capscrew fun-disassembling a quattro

Steve Jensen sjensen at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 3 23:32:37 EDT 2000


> The capscrews that hold the driveshaft CV to the rear
> drive input flange are installed with Loctite Red.
> Yeow!  One must have taken 400 ft. lbs. to break
> loose!

That d*mn monkey lad must have gotten around, he did the same thing on the
rear driveshaft/tranny output flange on my parts car!

When I sold the tranny, I gave the new owner the remains of the allen head
(with a little Loctite Red on the mangled remains) and told him that it was
a five hour bolt.  It took me five hours of stretching, straining, cursing,
spraying (with PB penetrant) and finally filing and Vise-gripping to get
that sucker out.

They should have an IQ test before selling that stuff, sheesh!

Rantification off.

-Steve Jensen
87 5kcstq (the shiftless one)
87 5kcstqw (the startless w/o some help one)






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