Re: Audi designers we'd like to meet

[geo <gamills@ns.sympatico.ca>]

> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 23:57:27 GMT
> From: quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)
> Subject: Audi designers we'd like to meet
>
> In message <48828D30.1299@mailgw.sanders.lmco.com> kirby.a.smith@lmco.com writes:
>
> > Phil Payne said:
> >
> >      One day I would like to meet the guy who designed RHD clutch master
> >      cylinder placement.
> >
> > Have him bring along his buddies, the designer of the exhaust manifold
> > stud-breaking scheme, as well as the designer of the later model door lock
> > assembly access.  I suspect others on the list could name other suspects,
> > possibly involving timing belts.  We could no doubt invent some purgatorial
> > automotive repair exercises for them.
>
> Timing belts was where this thread started, so we're back home.
>
> What about the guy that buried the battery/alternator/main feed splice deep in
> the harness?
>
> - --
>  Phil Payne

So Phil, since you brought us back home with the timing belts, I got mine done today.
Used the ol' Lord and Burnham pipe, six feet or so, on the end of my sturdy rachet
with the eight inch extension and the 27mm socket and went at it...stood on it, jumped
on it, finally came free...slooowly.  Everything else was not so bad from there.  Used
Paul Heneghan's 'calibration' for torque (got my green eyed beauty to stand three feet
up on the pipe to get the approximately 320 ft/lb of torque to secure the damper...and
yes Paul, she is 110 lbs.  What kind of weight are you living with? ; )

As for the purgatory these 'engineers' deserve, let them do it!  One at a time, free,
no charge, out in the rain, at 34 degrees F, no special tools (okay, maybe, and I say
MAYBE, the 2084), no help from my green eyed beauty....and.....and......BARE NAKED!

There, I feel moocho better now.  Going to have a beer, forget the whole damn thing.
Probably get a water pump leak in a week.

Geo