[V8] Removing Transmission

[Buchholz, Steven]

... are you sure you want to pull the transmission?  It might actually be
easier to get at the flex plate by pulling the motor!  Since all you need is
enough spacing to get at the crank bolts you might be able to pull a few
things off the front of the radiator and the fan shroud to make enough room
without disassembling the coolant plumbing and disconnecting the tranny
cooler.  If you find that you don't get enough clearance that way you can
get a bit more room by loosening the core support.  You'll need to pull the
starter to access the bolts that hook the flex plate up to the torque
converter and all the bellhousing bolts either way.  It might actually be a
bit easier for you than it was for me because you don't have to line up a
pilot shaft when bolting it all back together.  

Either way, good luck!
Steve B
San Jose, Kaleefohnia (USA)
> 
> Well, I've FINALLY gotten around to changing the flywheel (flex
> plate..whatever) in V8Q #1.   She's been sitting for almost a year. 
> First thing I did was pull the starter (BOY, was that rear bolt FUN,
> thanks alot for that one Hans.) No surprise, the flywheel had 
> the Alfred
> E Neuman syndrome.  But WHY?  Fellow Qlister Jeremy got me
> thinking.....how could #1 son had "started" the car when it 
> was already
> running, if Audi ignitions won't let you make that mistake?  Fuel
> Pressure regulator wasn't more than a few months old.  During 
> the summer
> (car had already been dead several months) I had pulled the 
> plugs to do
> some other checks and shrzzzp, it sure sounded like I had 
> stripped a few
> more teeth as she cranked over.
> 
> The culprit seems to have been the starter!  I took the starter to a
> rebuilder, and he showed me the huge amount of distance 
> between the hole
> of the bendix teeth and the shaft.  According to him, this play could
> cause enough of a cocked mating to the flex plate teeth to take chunks
> off of them.  I'd never seen this before in a V8Q, but, I 
> always seem to
> be that guy hits all lotteries with the ridiculous 
> odds...only the prizes
> suck. ;-)
> 
> I've already dropped the exhaust, heat covers, drive shafts 
> and only wish
> I could find the previous posts or remember specifics (I'm 
> getting old)
> on transmission removal.  I remember something about engine 
> support and
> shifting weight.  I'm doing this on a borrowed lift in a professional
> garage with an engine hoist and transmission jack.
> 
> BCNU,
> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
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