[urq] DAMMIT! Center diff casing failure

[Martin Pajak]

Mihnea,

Did you ever check the fluid level in the tranny?
The rear output shaft seal likes to leak, after a while you end up with an
empty tranny.
Another possibility is that it had a defect from factory but only the 20v
turbo made it apparent.
I have yet to hear of such failure on the 016.
Sorry to hear that.

Cheers
Martin Pajak

http://www.quattro.ca

1983 Audi Ur-quattro (269,000 km) Canadian spec. winter car
1985 Audi Ur-quattro (156,000 km) Euro spec. import ;o)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: urq-admin at audifans.com [mailto:urq-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of
> Mihnea Cotet
> Sent: August 1, 2002 04:23
> To: quattro at audifans.com; urq at audifans.com
> Subject: [urq] DAMMIT! Center diff casing failure
>
>
> Fellow listers,
>
> This morning while cruising with my recently 3B-converted coupe quattro on
> my way to a mechanic's to have my Scorpion exhaust installed my car's
> center diff casing EXPLODED!!!
> Yep, a huge explosion noise and afterwards some pieces of metal running
> underneath the car... I immediately stopped and went back by foot to check
> what broke and found some pieces of metal on the road smelling a lot like
> tranny oil... so after inspection, the center diff's casing was open,
> showing its inside...
>
> I limped back home for 15 kms at about 30 km/h (impossible to do more than
> 35 km/h otherwise everything seemed to be wanting to explode) and
> here I am
> with a broken center diff casing, wondering why the hell it broke....
>
> Has anyone BTBrokeThat? Could excessive torque (like 1.4 Bar overboost
> pressure in 5th) cause such a failure?
>
>
> Thanks for your answers in advance,
>
>
> Mihnea :(
>
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