A8 Trans update

[Peter Orban]

Hi Cody,

I really enjoy your well documented saga of this gearbox repair, kudos to you!

Just wondering, did you find the source of those plastic bits? Did something disintegrate inside the gearbox or was this a real foreign object? If so, how did that thing get inside? Are not these gearboxes factory sealed?

Regards, Peter

--- On Mon, 3/16/09, quattro-request at audifans.com <quattro-request at audifans.com> wrote:

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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:44:56 -0400
From: "John Cody Forbes" <cody at 5000tq.com>
Subject: Re: A8 Trans update
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
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http://jcforbes.com/jcfpics/a8trans_3-15-09

Well that actually went rather well. I'm realising that the captions for
the 
photo's are a good tool, so text is the e-mail is getting less useful ;-). 
Had I not slept in this morning there's a good chance I would have had the 
trans completely back together today. Now the larger issue is that I don't 
THINK there is anything else that can cause issues, but I don't know that 
for a fact. I've been through ELSAWin and the family album a few times and 
it looks like the only valves, pistons, and solenoids are in the pump and 
the valve body. From what I can see all passage ways lead back to those two 
areas and are clear. Even so it's still a big gamble to spend 9 or 10 hours

to put the trans back in and then have to spend that taking it back out 
again if this fails!! Of course I bet those times are going to down now that 
I figured out what I'm doing.

...

-Cody Forbes





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