A8 Trans update

[John Cody Forbes]

Yeah, as described in the very beginning part of the story (the boring part, 
I don't blame anybody for not reading until there was pictures hehe), the 
cars previous owner ran over a cinder block in the road. The impact smushed 
the transmission oil pan hard enough that it bent into and broke the 
transmission oil filter which has a plastic body. The plastic oil filter 
shattered like a drinking glass. The object isn't foreign to the 
transmission as a whole, but certainly it is to the pump ;-).

I've got the old pan and filter, but haven't gotten arround to taking 
pictures quite yet.

-Cody Forbes

Peter Orban wrote:
> 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:
>
> Message: 4
> 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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