plastic necks and AAA!

[William Ng]

Thanks Kneale,

Short of having the luxury to be able to weld aluminum tanks to the
existing one, I also conclude that a metal replacement is the only
recourse. Since the other half of the neck was missing in my case, there's
no possibility of sleeving the break internally and externally which might
yield the strongest repair.

As for the towing...I should have mentioned that he did hook the rear at
the chassis' frame rails. The front end was attached at the front
subframe.
But when he removed the car, I thought his procedure was unorthodox.
Instead of winching the car off the platform, he set the parking brake as
hard as possible so that the car was stationery on the inclined platform.
Released the winch chains and "rolled" the car off at what I thought was a
bit too fast. If the car was winched off, I wouldn't be dealing with yet
another problem.
:-P

Will

Original Message:

Message: 15
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:59:08 -0500
To: willng at netzero.net, quattro at audifans.com
From: Kneale Brownson <knotnook at traverse.com>
Subject: Re: RANT: Damn radiator plastic necks and AAA!

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If you do a Google search on the audifans.com website for something like
radiator necks, you'll probably find several repair processes reported on
repeatedly:  Epoxy in a piece of copper tubing just the right size, use
the
Audi plastic neck repair kit, etc.  Most report the fix works for a while
and then fails again.  Most reliable repair is to replace the radiator.

The flatbedders need an anchoring spot at each end to tighten the car in
place.  Commonly, they use a heavy hook that goes around most vehicle's
rear axle and has a piece of chain on the end that slips into a notched
hole in the bed of the truck.  Then they winch the car another couple of
inches to snug everything up.  On a quattro,  they "want" to hook around
the suspension parts near a wheel.  You really have to talk them into
using
the tow hooks unless they have the "modern" approach with slings that go
over each rear wheel and fasten to the truck bed.



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William Ng
1990 200 quattro @ 176k miles

audi200quattro at yahoo.com    willng at netzero.net
Boston, MA USA

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