E-bay 4kq: Good news, ugly discovery, one minor q...

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If you're sure that it's the top bearing, I would say that it could probably
be 3 things:

1. Not the correct torque (I use the impact to remove, but the open cut socket
to torque it)

2. The bearing pop out of the rubber casing and went side ways (btdt)?

3. The bearing is actually shot. Did you replace them? That would be the right
moment.

Good luck,

Carlos.


>From: "R Mangas"
>To: quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: E-bay 4kq: Good news, ugly discovery, one minor q...
>Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:49:21 -0500
>
>
> Some (Peter :) ) may recall a thread from several months ago
>wherein I
>was concerned that my recently scored '87 4kcsq (Ebay, 67k miles,
>$1550!)
>had some significant problem in the tranny/center diff. Had a howl
>like I'd
>never heard before which didn't seem to change when sawing the wheel
>back
>and forth. This was because _both_ front wheel bearings were bad.
>Swapped
>them out this past week and I'm back in biz except for a couple
>minor
>issues.
>
> One of these is a cold-start problem. Think I've got it pretty
>well
>licked, but in the process of diagnosis/preventive maintenance I
>made an
>ugly discovery. Took the rubber plenum (fuel metering head to
>throttle
>body) off to check for cracks/verify metering plate freeplay and
>discoverd
>that it was full of rust! WTF?! I had a new airfilter on hand
>anyway, so I
>decided to swap that out and investigate further. Well.
>
> That job is an absolute blast; I really enjoyed it. Apparently
>the last
>guy to do it didn't like it quite so much, and just sort of crammed
>the
>filter in there, putting some holes in the filter in the process.
>Problem
>1. The bottom of the airbox was just chock-full of rust as well,
>from the
>Long-Term Rust Injector that Audi fitted at the factory. The warmup
>air
>shroud that sits on the ex manifold was of course rusty as hell, so
>rust
>flaked off, got sucked into the tube and then bloop! straight into
>my
>engine. Lovely. It runs good, so I'm just going to change the oil,
>press
>on, and hope for the best. If it takes a crap eventually this car
>is a
>perfect candidate for a turbo swap... The Audi gods have spoken!
>
> Minor q- to swap the bearings out I pulled the uprights and used a
>press.
>It went smoothly, but now I've got a bit of vertical freeplay at the
>strut
>bushing on the pass side. It acts like I just didn't get the main
>nut at
>the top tight enough, but I used an impact gun. Any insights?
>
> Nice to be quattro'd again :). Been driving the turbo Miata in
>the snow,
>kind of a handful at times...
>
>Robert
>
>
>
>
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