Back in the four-ringed world!

[Tony Hoffman]

Congrats, I've always loved A8's. Some day I'll have one, till
then..............

On the oil leak, clean teh engine as well as you can, then put some talc
powder (I use foot powder) around teh entire area where you suspect the leak
is coming from. Run the engine, and inspect. This will show it very well.
On the output seals, probably done 50 of them :( Seem to be a weak spot on
the later ZF autos. Pull the CV's, and pull the flanges, then swap out the
seals. If the boots look suspect, now is the time to change them as well.
The rear is similar, drop the exhaust, pull the driveshaft CV off the rear
output, pull the flange, and change the seal. To get the bolts out of that
CV may require a bit of heat, and you heat the flange right near where each
bolt goes in.

HTH,
Tony


On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Vincent Gelinas <vrgelinas at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks to Chris at Force5, I am now the proud owner of a 1999 A8q with the
> 4.2l V8. A very nice car, I might say. A few minor things wrong - a mystery
> oil leak, the common output seal and diff leaks, trans needs a fluid and
> filter change, outer front CV joints, and a tie rod end which may be
> covered
> by an Audi TSB. Besides minor crap like the headrest problem, the interior
> is perfect. Though I am going to shoot the PO who messed up the stereo
> wiring bypassing the Bose amp. Oh well. I'm gonna have my trusted auto
> electronics people fix that mess. I'm happy and excited to be back and
> thank
> you to Chris for making things easy!
>
> Any btdt on those repairs?
>
> Cheers,
>
> V