[urq] Subframes bushings r&R procedure

[Martin pajak]

Mine arean't broken.... it's been 3-4 years now... and I did drive it hard.

A lot of people do not align the subframe and tranny mounts correctly...
This could cause some of the problem.
When installing the subframe the tranny mount bolts should be the last to be
tightened (and made sure they are not binding).

HTH


-----Original Message-----
From: urq-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Bill Bennett
Sent: 25-Sep-04 00:31
To: Buchholz, Steven; urq at audifans.com; Tony Lum
Subject: Re: [urq] Subframes bushings r&R procedure


The subframe cracks, I posted this a couple years back on two cars. One was
a URQ the other was VW Quantum wagon Syncro. both had aluminum front
crossmembers mounts, and both had cracked front subframes, and both had
broken in the same place, right front inboard about 7 inches from the right
front body mounting point, they were not cracked, they where separated,
split, broken, 5 mm gap. wanna break a front crossmember? add solid mounts
and you will. Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Lum" <tlum at flash.net>
To: "Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz at kla-tencor.com>; <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 6:34 PM
Subject: RE: [urq] Subframes bushings r&R procedure


> At 01:27 PM 9/24/2004 -0700, Buchholz, Steven wrote:
> >I seem to recall reading a report from Audidudi some years back that Al
> >bushings couple more vibration to the unibody of the car and can lead to
> >damaging the integrity of the unibody.  Does anyone else remember this
> >report?  I know that he was referring to a car that he was auto crossing
...
> >
> >
> >Steve B
> >San Jose, CA (USA)
>
> Yes I remember that post.  I think it referred to a FWD 4000 where cracks
> in the body developed.
>
>
> --
> Tony
>
> '80 5KS
> 83 urquattro #DA900302
> '85 4kq
> '87 5kcstq
> '87.5 coupe GT
>
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