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

["Peter Plangger" <pepe@z.zgs.de>]

I'd vote for the front crank seal too. BTDT. Sad that the timing belt
has been done recently because the harmonic balancer has to come off
again for the crank seal.

Peter
'91 90 2.3E
_/_/_/_/_/ pepe@z.zgs.de \_\_\_\_\_

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Von: R Justin Andrews <rjandrew@post.cis.smu.edu>
An: Peter Schulz <schulz@ed.ray.com>
Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Datum: Montag, 12. April 1999 20:58
Betreff: Re: Feeling like Homer Simpson...(Weeping 3B oil Pan Gasket)


>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
>>
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