glenbjackson

pics happen TONIGHT on my daily!

????Anybody rebuilding the auto transmission and needing that bearing you have to destroy to get to screws to remove the tail end??? it has a flange, is a roller bearing and i cannot find it anywhere. anybody know what im referring to and where i can find one?? or if no body's making them, are any of you needing this bearing? i going to approach a local bearing manufacture and see if they'll make it.

P.S. on second to last post about the intake manifold flaps had me researching. read an ssp on 4.2 and some of that sludge that gets in the intake manifold is because they imitate a "egr system" by pumping exhaust into intake tract. By overlapping intake valve on exhaust stroke even more. No externally plumbing or valves.... makes some sense. Just enough overlap for quantity of exhaust for next power stroke to pass emissions. kinda neat so i shared

this was on my daily driver. im sure it was missed by myself smh didnt tighten it.

thread lock could have possibly prevented this. although not torqued, if installed with thread lock and even just finger tight would have still not loosened and not contacted the axle stub.

incorrect torque, wheel end vibrations and forward rotation of axle continuously unscrewed this screw clamping the wheel bearing.

glenbjackson

Bringing her home from storage!
Junkyard coolers should fit straight across inside rear bumper. Pedal cluster ready to go in.
For pistons I am going with gas ported top ring and a gapless 2nd I wanna try those. But I am looking for anybody with first hand experience with piston coatings?? Please let me know. Maybe creakote top and some thing on the skirts.??

glenbjackson

LOVE love love the ski-through in this car. I can bring 2x4s, 4x4s, long angle iron, all kinds of stuff makes D2 very capable. finally pieced together a rook rack from scrapyard. so now with added roof storage WOW this car becomes a comforting solution for cross country travel for sure. no bags in the cabin area, roomy CLEAN traveling setup. A recent break down made me realize ALWAYS have backup transportation(bike), tools and a hi-lift jack whenever traveling out of town and with heavy trucks ALL the time. Alot of thing can be fixed as long as you can get to a hardware/parts store or just off the road to gas. i didnt run out of fuel but a fuller tank helped a leaky pump pull enough fuel to get off road OR if your A8 has unusable last quarter tank issue!!!





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PS. my hookup for monitoring oil pressure. i get why manufactures got rid of most important guage, its the miindset of their audience. consumers are NOT paying attention to it soo why pay for it. so i added my own after i had the LOW OIL warning. the senor went bad. you can just tee off where the oil pressure sensor was plenty of room without taking anything apart. feels good to see oil pressure move with the tach

glenbjackson

i cannot speak for all limp modes and this is an event that i can't nor want to recreate so my best guess is all......here was my situation,
i was down shifting in manual mode to ascend a hill and my cluster showed limp mode (all ranges highlighted). I always thought i had to turn car off to get it to reset but i tried to put in neutral then back into drive, i felt the knotch/gate. i could feel and hear the transmission shifting, not making any odd noises, in a locate i could not pull over and on occasion shifting in manual mode would not register on the cluster. With all that in mind i decided to giggle side to side in the D and manual/tiptronic gate and it showed the correct D in the cluster and normal functioning resumed! MADE MY DAY. A nice little trick; bang it around like a manual till it works

i think some limp modes can be triggered by the selector switch in the gear shift lever not lining up/in-sync with the cable switch down on transmission. maybe the slight motion in between tranny, subframe and body adds up to relatively alot of motion and although the cable has slack it still moves enough in the chain to not match.

01E spacers should be here tomorrow, soon the matting of the two!! 6-speed plus 40 valves = appx. 120 speeds

a blacked out selector cluster means no communication with TCM, if all red than its called "mechanical-backup-active" with TCM communication.