Clutch job on '86 5kq

[auditude at cox.net]

At least do the main seal, or else it might start howling at you.  There are some listers currently, and many listers historically, that have had to drop the tranny just to replace a howling and embarassing rear main seal.  It's cheap too.  Just do that at least.

As for the tranny seal, I think I skipped it on my car, but there's really no reason not to do that too.

Later,

Ken

Eyvind Spangen eyvind.spangen at c2i.net wrote:
>
> The clutch in my car is *really* tired, and I'll be replacing it soon.
> I've ordered a new clutch, pressure plate and throwout bearing. I will
> replace the rear main seal and transmission input shaft seal if
> they're leaking, but what if they are dry? I'm on a very limited
> budget (college student), so money is absolutely an issue..
>
> Is it *very* stupid not to replace them while I'm in there? :-)
> Anything else that should be replaced?
>
> --
> E. Spangen
> '86 Audi 100 2.2 CS quattro