[V8] Steering Rack Rant

[Jason Wilkerson]

No - the real trick is taking the transmission out first!  It only adds about 13 hours to the job, but it really is much easier to get out.  Good luck.

--- On Tue, 11/16/10, D Morralee <superdaveski at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: D Morralee <superdaveski at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [V8] Steering Rack Rant
> To: "audi fan" <v8 at audifans.com>
> Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 12:50 PM
> 
> Rant of the day  (1993 Audi V8 4.2 with servotronic 
>  
> Getting a steering rack of these cars is a night mare ….
> It like giving birth feet first!!!  
> I tell you I’ve done a lot of stuff on cars from pulling
> engines to doing the timing belt on the 4.2 , but this was
> just plane nasty …. What did Audi do, build the car around
> the steering rack !!!! The real problem wasn’t undoing all
> the nuts, bolts, lines, it was to jimmying the fricken thing
> out of the car through the little hole in the Passenger
> wheel well. I had to undo the top of the shock tower and
> move it over a few inches. I think that when I go to put the
> rack back in I’m going to take the whole strut out …. I
> really think that is the trick.  
>  
>  
> Ahh I feel better now that I’ve vented   J
> superdave     
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