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[Marc Swanson]

Well, my newly aquired 88' 90q passed inspection today after I spent the
weekend custom fabricating an exhaust for it and fixing a leaking fuel
system.

One thing that was really worrying me was a nasty grinding noise when
shifting into 3rd or 4th.  The fact that it happened in more than one gear
suggested that syncros would be unlikely as I'd think only one would be
likely to be bad.  But anyway I started noticing that if I rev-matched
really well I could get the grinding to stop or at least happen less... This
started to make me think in the direection of the clutch although the pedal
felt just fine (great in fact!).  So I gave the clutch a good pressure bleed
(I HIGHLY reccomend the EZ-Bleed at http://www.rdent.com/pages/tools.html or
you can do like Nate Stuart did and make a homemade version).  Basically the
kit came with a bottle that you fill up with fresh fluid, an assortment of
caps with rubber sealing rings to fit onto the brake resevoir, and a "tire
filler" style shrader valve connector that hooks up to the plastic bottle.
You just hook up the fitting onto a spare tire or other source of 10-20psi
air and voila!  The air gets instantly purged out of the system.  Took me 5
minutes.

The best part of all of this was after bleeding the clutch, no more
grinding!  This car may be worth my time/money yet.  In summary, so far In
getting the car on the road I've spent:

1988 Audi 90q (about 240k on the odo):    $350
new fuel pump, filter, accumulator, and lines:   $360
custom exhaust pipe parts and connectors:   $80

and next up, shift mechanism parts:   $60
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== $850.  Not too bad!



Later


-Marc-

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