HELP Audi V8!

[Neil Swanson <75377.3445@compuserve.com>]

Need help out there,

At the shop we've got a '90 V8 auto trans that needs a part.  I work at a
dealer and we can get zip for parts. Nothing on the fiche.   NO PARTS were
ever brought into the states for an auto trans for a V8.  Those trannies
worked till they stopped, and then you got another whole tranny.

We've called ZF and been told that maybe if we can get a part number we can
maybe get the part from Germany.   We can't even get a part number!  If we
had had a number it would still take 17 days to get one!

We called the Audi training centers but there was never any training on
those trannys 'cause we were never supposed to fix them anyway.  We were
just hoping they had one gathering dust.

I gets worse.

So what is the part?  The oil pump in the tranny has 2 broken "tangs" or
"tabs" that fit with the torque convertor. So without those two "tabs" the
tranny flat out has no drive. No pump, no go.  WE are trying not to have to
tell this guy that yes he does need a $10,000 tranny.

So we need an oil pump assembly.

Shokan has a used tranny.

 We'd like to find a shop or individual who has a tranny they/we could
break up.  And at this point I don't care if it is in the USA or not.

I'm going to bring the numbers for Anderson Bros, SportWheels, 2Bennett etc
to work on Monday. Anyone else to put a call into. Ned maybe?

All advice or leads are welcome as to where to come up with a donor tranny.
  

E-mail here over the weekend or you could call me at work on Monday. 
Continental Motors in CT.  203-335-3919, ask for Neil Swanson.

Thanks a bunch  


Neil