Cutting up a car

[Hayes Myers]

Pretty good day.. Found the timing gear snapped in two.   Andrew and I went
to the wreckers and found a couple of old Audi's.   Little bit of
wrenching/sawsalling and cam gear and woodruff was ours. (I had no idea the
cam gears are the same for so many VAG engines.  We found an I5 to snag ours
from anyway)  We cut the belt to get it off.in hindsight we prob should have
come prepared to grab the belt too as ours was 1/3 missing/frayed.
Manually lined up the timing, checking the valve clearance with the cam
gear.lined up and went through the entire cycle without any noises (like
valves popping on something) so we hooked up the wastegate (PO took his hypo
spring out.we put more hypo spring in J )  PO neglected to mention taking
the battery out. Needless to say we finally got one in and with judicious
cranking brought her to life.sort of.  Regardless of running like crap we
heading home. After about 1km the intercooler came off (we had put new one
on as old was mashed in accident).  Fixed that.nother 3-4 km and we had
valve noises. (plinkity plink  as Andrew noted)  Inspection of belt showed
stretch/fraying that probably allowed slippage.  So, towed it after that.
Probably should have towed noting the timng belt being frayed but we took
the chance. C'est la view.  Lots of great parts though on this 1988 5000 CD
quattro.  I'm debating to put the leather with alcantra insert seats in my
car in lieu of the cloth I have.    Going to put most suspension goodness
away etc. however if you can think of something you would like.  I got some
really nice shape Ronal's (the 15" ones) think came with car?  I have the
BBS already in nice shape..but these are nicer imo and they have decent
rubber on them.  All in all good score for ~450 all told.  Plus a lot of
learning for me about timing and  tenacity in making something work.