Re: Feeling like Homer Simpson...(Weeping 3B oil Pan Gasket)

[rjandrew@post.cis.smu.edu (R Justin Andrews)]

Are you sure it's not the crank seal weeping??
sometimes it WILL look like an oil pan gasket....

HTH!
rich Andrews
rjandrew@post.cis.smu.edu
> 
> Finally found the source of the slow oil leak on the 200 TQW...
> 
> When the engine is hot, oil weeps out of the pan gasket near the front
> of the pan, by the oil filter, just where the pan extension starts.
> I tried loosening and retightening the allen bolts, to no avail.
> 
> When I found this yesterday, I started thinking:
> 
> "stupid oil pan!!!! $#%#$^#^#%^^&^&!!!! Doh, Doh...
> 
> Then realized that I was dealing with the Audi Gods...
> 
> Oops, nice Audi...
> 
> So now that I finally have the TQW almost all buttoned up, with a 
> new H20 pump, TB, idler, belts, thermostat, rebuilt alternator, starter,
> new plugs, bomb, bilstein, Eurolights, and a whopping 2 miles
> of test drives, (after having to drop the subframe, oil pan, and oil
> pump to retrieve a broken idler pulley bolt, replace the pan
> and oil pump gasket) the question is:
> 
> Will I have to redrop the pan and try again with another
> new gasket?
> 
> Is there a secret to reinstalling the oil pan gasket?
> 
> Stupid gasket!!!...
> 
> DOh...
> 
> -Peter Schulz
> 1991 TQW weeping oil...
> 1990 CQ
> 
> schulz@res.ray.com
>