Had a really good day on the car today, feeling rather goosed now, and still gotta drive 300 miles down to Somerset
, may have to prime myself on Relentless
So i started by cleaning all the years off crud n oil from the engine bay and removed the bonnet to make it a bit easier putting the engine -
I then installed the drivers side BFI Engine Mount.
Had a little bit of bother with the driver side engine mount, the base plate is only about 10mm thick - the original is approx 30-40mm thick so the plain section of the bolts were too long, i found some M10 Capheads to use temporary. I'll get some proper bolts from work next week.
The Gearbox mount had to be stripped as it uses PU inserts to replace the OEM stuff.
I drilled out the aluminium rivets and stripped it down. I cleaned all the corrosion off the aluminium parts the reassembled it with the new BFI parts -
I then removed the coolant pipes from the heater matrix connections.
Whilst working in the bay i realised the drivers side driveshaft was gonna get in the way of the transfer box....so not having a socket to remove the nut from the driveshaft end i decided to just get the plasma out and cut it off!!!!
Next up i got the engine hoist out and lifted the engine out of it stand -
After cleaning up the engine to gearbox joining plate and installing it on the engine I then installed the Clutchmasters FX400 Clutch & Flywheel kit, the kit uses a steel flywheel and a 2mm thick steel ring to distribute the load from the claping bolts.
I used new OEM bolts and torqued them down to 40nm, tightened them one then its opposite. I then tightened them a further 180 degrees.
Just a little hint for people i used a marker pen and marked the bolt and flywheel, then turned them about 1/8 of a turn working my way around all the bolts until they were all done 180 degrees.
Had to modify the clutch alignment tool as it didn't fit the middle of the crank that well.
I then bolted the pressure plate down again working my way around rather than just tightening one bolt at a time. These were torqued down to 20nm and i used Omnifit (loctite) on the threads.
Fitted the new clutch slave cylinder into the Quattro gearbox, torqued the colts to 25nm.
After much wiggling and jiggling i managed to get the gearbox joined to the engine
I used brand new OEM bolts and nipped them up, i will torque them all up properly once the engines in, didn't fancy pulling on the bolts when the engine was in the air.
Break for pictures.....
