[s-cars] Nuts

[brian hoeft]

Ah, a professional procrastinator huh? me too   :)

I think your recirculate sounds like a symptom of a failing cluster, flap
motor or vacuum, kind of in order, but that doesn't help much, sorry.

Yes to removing the downpipe and corrugated pipe for clutch R&R's. Maybe
someone could claim otherwise on something custom, but can't imagine it
being worth the struggle. Lord knows i've done several B5 S4 clutch R&R's
for in over their head type friends that couldnt afford the clutch/labor,
let alone extra hardware/gaskets/risk of breaking, and that clearance is
not very forgiving, so go figure..

I use(d) new hardware last time and, while being a bit of a hardware freak,
can also say that those nuts can be pinched in a vice until ovaled slightly
to make them "lock-nuts" once again.

As for having to remove the corrugated pipe for the EM to turbo nuts.. for
just the nuts, I wouldn't need to but, the Stromung allows plenty of space
between the rs2,, and cut most all the studs to a ?convenient? length.. I
think I got it down to only 2 EM(rs2) to head nuts that needed to be
tightened in sequence regarding clearance. Plus, I have a bunch of
specially cut bent or bought wrenches and have pretty good dexterity with
my not so burly man hands..

I prefer having the largest hex possible that space will allow. I like
McMaster Carr, but would order this from my local'ish source in north
jersey. Which BTW is RPM foreign auto 973 448 9440 and this just in, the
P/N's on the nuts: N 102 090 05, replace the last 2 digits with 09 if the
former is superseded, just got a call into them while typing. I have a hard
time supporting 034 anymore after all the times i've been sold (or given by
customers) inferior parts, wrong parts, defective parts and extra parts
with the remedy offered being more store credit that I dont want, but it
should be pretty hard to eff up a few exhaust nuts, especially if you are
there first hand.




On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I don't know, honestly.  But I noticed the smell of exhaust coming through
> the HVAC while stopped at lights, shortly after I got the car back from the
> clutch swap.  I was no longer living near the shop so I never got around to
> taking the car back in, and the workaround was to run the AC on recirculate
> so that's what I did.  Now it doesn't stay on recirculate any more (even
> with AC on), so that's another problem I'll have to track down.
>
> Doesn't the downpipe have to come off in order to do the clutch
> replacement?  I don't see how you can get the transmission out without
> removing the downpipe.  It doesn't explain the turbo to exhaust manifold
> nuts, though.  I replaced all of the nuts with new ones when I installed
> the GT2871 hybrid years ago, since they're supposed to be one-time use.  I
> suspect the shop reused the ones on the downpipe, but still don't see why
> they'd need to mess with the ones connecting to the exhaust manifold.
>
> M10 x 1.5.  Thanks, I was going to get them from McMaster-Carr but
> realized 034 has them too so I'll try to stop by there tomorrow.  They've
> got the copper-plated ones for $2 that have 14mm heads, and "aircraft
> quality turbo lock nuts" that cost $5 each but also have 12mm heads which
> could make it quite a bit easier to wrench on them.  Not sure which ones to
> get - am I going to have to remove the flex coupling anyway in order to get
> at the exhaust manifold nuts?
>
>    ------------------------------
> *From:* brian hoeft <qweblog at gmail.com>
> *To:* tedebearp at yahoo.com
> *Cc:* s-car-list at audifans.com
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:15 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [s-cars] Nuts
>
> 8x1.5
>
> Why pull the turbo for a clutch R&R?
>
> I actually have a nice picture of most related parts, with P/N's if anyone
> has a photo hosting account, I could send the picture for use as a helpful
> link.
>
> Just this week I had to pull my turbo to replace 2 broken studs in it from
> what should have been a simple downpipe R&R to cut/weld in a new flex
> section to my Stromung DP that needs attention at least every 2 years.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:40 PM, <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I noticed today that several of the nuts from the turbo plumbing have
> disappeared, most likely worked loose after the clutch replacement about 18
> months ago.  I'm missing one of the turbo to downpipe nuts, and two of the
> turbo to RS2 exhaust manifold nuts (diagonally opposite each other).
> Anybody remember what size these nuts are?
>
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