Re: Audi 100 (5000 ?) Prospective Purchase

[David Boyd <john@dboyd.demon.co.uk>]

Dave

Thanks a second time for the very detailed and helpful reply. I've been
decisive and bought the beast - GBP 750= around $1150 I think, which ain't
too bad for a sound  '89 with 120,000 miles, even needing a bit of work -
certainly a fraction of the 'retail' in the price guides.
(The seller was also very worried about the red thermometer in the waves
coming up on the Autocheck - he'd called the UK Auto Club rescue services
(AA) out to it when it came on when they were away in the car on vacation,
and he said they could not explain why it was on either, -  I too was a bit
worried, but as soon as I got the car, I topped the coolant level up in the
header tank and, hey presto ! - warning gone. A little Audi knowledge is a
good thing, sometimes.)
Still evaluating this transmission noise and sources of secondhand spares or
repairs - your notes will be most useful.


Regards

David


john@dboyd.demon.co.uk
Cumbria, UK.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Head <dhead@sundial.net>
To: David Boyd <john@dboyd.demon.co.uk>
Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: 11 November 1997 14:37
Subject: Re: Audi 100 (5000 ?) Prospective Purchase


>At 01:46 PM 11/10/97 -0000, you wrote:
>>Dave
>>
>>Thanks a lot for the advice - makes the decision harder !
>>
>>One supplementary question, if you don't mind - Did you get the transaxle
>>bearings replaced in their own or did you replace the gearbox/transaxle
>>altogether or just the transaxle part ? - just trying to get a feel for
the
>>scope of the potential job - I'm a novice when it comes to gearboxes,
diffs.
>>etc.
>
>This is in reference to a 79 5000 auto - however the transaxle and
>transmission are the same in all 100/200 up to the end of 1990. I replaced
>the transaxle after removing it a couple of times for transmission
problems.
>I became very adept at replacing it, to the point of having it on the
ground
>w/in about 3 hours after placing the car on jackstands.
>
>It really isn't a hard job. You drop the front swaybar and the control
arms.
>This allows you to remove the inner axle nuts and swing the struts and
axles
>out of the way. Drop the exhaust, remove the starter, support the front of
>the engine so it doesn't tilt forward. Remove the shift/throttle linkage
>from the transmission, loosen the transaxle mounting bolts (that top one is
>a bear to get to - but its that way on almost every car... Support the
>transaxle, loosen and completely remove the rear side mounts, remove the
>transaxle mounting bolts. At that point I would slide under the transaxle
>and drop it onto my chest, then slide out from under it. A trans jack makes
>it much easier, and can be rented for a minimal charge... My last transaxle
>cost me 50.00 out of a junkyard. With all the automatic trans problems
Audis
>had there a ton of them available with low miles, cheap...
>
>There are some specifics in the Bentley on mounting the trans back to the
>transaxle that MUST be followed correctly - other than that, its a simple,
>straightforward one day job with simple hand tools. No special mechanical
>ability is necessary. This is the reason why I love Audis so much. Although
>they are complex, repairs are not that difficult. The hardest part is
>removing everything to get to whatever you have to work on...
>
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