RE: 5k strut replacement - easy!

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

Tool? What tool? Sounds like a good investment. How much? Gotta source?

Ian Duff, New Bedford, MA
1990 Coupe Quattro

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>From: 	John Karasaki[SMTP:johkar@teleport.com]
>Sent: 	Friday, May 10, 1996 10:22 AM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	5k strut replacement - easy!
>
>Well, I just changed the dead as a door nail original front struts on
>our
>'84 5k wagon.  After changing the oil, this must be the easiest
>maintenance
>item to do on these cars.  It took a little under an hour to do.  This
>time
>includes walking out to the garage, getting the tools out, putting the
>fender protector on the car, removing the old and installing the new,
>washing up, and going back into the house!
>
>This is the second 5k I've done.  I'm so glad I bit the bullet and
>bought
>the special tool to take the inserts out from the top without removing
>the
>strut assembly.  Our V8 gets new front struts this weekend!  (Our V8
>has had
>the brake conversion which also entails replacing the strut assemblies
>with
>those of the '89 200s, so I can use "the tool.")
>
>One bad note though.  I noticed that ps fluid leaking from the bomb
>(which
>is dead as a door nail too) has broken down the rubber of my left front
>subframe bushing.  How hard are these to replace?  It looks
>straightforward.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>John Karasaki
>
>The Karasaki's, proud owners of AUDI automobiles
>
>1981 Coupe
>1982 TQC
>1984 5000S Wagon
>1990 V8
>
>