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

[Jim Haseltine]

I'll echo this. Sometime before Xmas I replaced the front mounts on my 88 Ur
in a hurry one afternoon and a few weeks ago I noticed some 'knocking' from
the front end. Couldn't work out what it was and decided that it HAD to be
the rack. Then I thought that I'd check the castle nut ('threaded bush').
Both were loose by approx 1/2 a turn. Tightened and no knocking since. And
yes, it took about 10 minutes.
Moral - always use the correct tools, saves time in the long term.

Regards,

Jim Haseltine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Pajak" <Martin at quattro.ca>
To: <JShadzi at aol.com>; <porter_dog at hotmail.com>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 6:59 PM
Subject: E-bay 4kq: Good news, ugly discovery, one minor q...


Javad,

You are jmping the gun here.
Replacing the wheel bearings would not make the strut bearings go bad.
Most likely the small nut/fastener holding the bearing came loose when he
was tightening the big 22mm nut with an impact gun BTDT.  This is due to the
rotational difference... tightening one will cause the other to try to
loosen.
This is why it is very important to make sure that either that fastener is
very tight or you use proper tools (allan key and offset 22mm closed wrench
works well).

Before you get a new bearing just take the nut off and retighten that
fastener, can easily be done in the driveway and should take about 10min.

Hope this helps.
Cheers
Martin Pajak
http://www.quattro.ca

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You need a new strut bearing.
Javad

In a message dated 2/14/2003 6:00:14 AM Pacific Standard Time,
porter_dog at hotmail.com writes:

> 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?