[V6-12v] Re: Adopted a 95 A6 wagon

[Tom Christiansen]

At 05:00 AM 4/18/2005, Kent McLean wrote:
>Elvis Palombizio <epalombizio at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Does anyone know how long it takes to do a Tbelt and friends on
> >> the 2.8 12v?
>
>Tom Christiansen wrote:
>>I dug out a procedure once that claimed it to be a 2-hour job if you know 
>>what you are doing and have the right tools. That doesn't sound too far 
>>off base, although, I'd allow a bit more myself...
>
>I haven't done it (yet), but this should give you an idea of
>the process involved:
><http://www.12v.org/maintenance/repairs/tbelt.php>
>
>Sounds like more than 2 hours to me.  I've found most jobs
>take twice as long as I think they should.

This is what I'm looking at: <http://home.ec.rr.com/miktip/tbelt.jpg> Looks 
like a scan of some shop manual. It says two hours (if you're a mechanic = 
in my terminology "know what you are doing").

But, yeah... I would definitely set aside an entire Saturday to do the job...

Tom