The manifold on the car was in good condition but needed a little clean up. I was going to get it ceramic coated but the cost was around £200 and was told the coating is easily chipped and I felt it was just not worth the expense. So for under £50 I had the manifold shot blasted and then I painted it with Eastwood high temperature paint which got good reviews.
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I wanted to cure the paint as best as I could as I was going to be a good few weeks before the car was started so I got the blowtorches out for around 20 minutes
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Next up was to add the rest of the heat shield for the engine bay. Have to say the parts on this car are getting more difficult to find, sure there is Audi tradition but that is limited in what they have left
This shield was absolutely rotten and fell apart when removed from the car, tradition had none but I managed to find the last one in the country at a VW dealer is Scotland.
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Also some parts that Audi are supplying these days don't fit first time! This shield for example is a revised part from the original and is now listed with the A4 B6 version, however the top bolt holes on the B6 are M6 where the B5 A4 are M8, so had to be drilled out. It's not a big problem but I was finding issues like that more and more on revised parts.
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Other than the transmission tunnel shield this was the only other heat shield I was able to clean-up and reuse.
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Next up was starting to put the engine pipe workback on. One of the biggest problems I was having here was perished rubber hoses. Some had been almost cut through from rubbing over the years.
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So with new pipe work and gaskets the inlet manifold, and alternator were refitted, the manifold was shot blasted and I purchased a new alternator I wanted the original 70A version but could I hell as like find one so ended up with a 90A version.
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While I was waiting on a new viscus fan, and power steering pump. I started working on the slam panel. The original was was in good condition but had plenty of rust on the rivet nuts, and on a couple nuts the screw thread was snapped off and left in the nut. Only way to remove the old nuts is to drill the top of the head off.
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So I ordered replacement rivet nuts which are designed to be used on plastic.
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These were just going to rust again so I gave them a coating of epoxy
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This was the rivet tool I used, unfortunately none of the rivets that come with the tool were useful on plastic, as when the rivet is pressed in it starts to snap the plastic.
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New nuts pressed in
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New radiator also purchased, the old was was OK, but the alloy fins around the bottom were starting to corrode.
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I wanted to cure the paint as best as I could as I was going to be a good few weeks before the car was started so I got the blowtorches out for around 20 minutes
3.png
Next up was to add the rest of the heat shield for the engine bay. Have to say the parts on this car are getting more difficult to find, sure there is Audi tradition but that is limited in what they have left
This shield was absolutely rotten and fell apart when removed from the car, tradition had none but I managed to find the last one in the country at a VW dealer is Scotland.
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Also some parts that Audi are supplying these days don't fit first time! This shield for example is a revised part from the original and is now listed with the A4 B6 version, however the top bolt holes on the B6 are M6 where the B5 A4 are M8, so had to be drilled out. It's not a big problem but I was finding issues like that more and more on revised parts.
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Other than the transmission tunnel shield this was the only other heat shield I was able to clean-up and reuse.
7.png
Next up was starting to put the engine pipe workback on. One of the biggest problems I was having here was perished rubber hoses. Some had been almost cut through from rubbing over the years.
8.png
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So with new pipe work and gaskets the inlet manifold, and alternator were refitted, the manifold was shot blasted and I purchased a new alternator I wanted the original 70A version but could I hell as like find one so ended up with a 90A version.
10.png
While I was waiting on a new viscus fan, and power steering pump. I started working on the slam panel. The original was was in good condition but had plenty of rust on the rivet nuts, and on a couple nuts the screw thread was snapped off and left in the nut. Only way to remove the old nuts is to drill the top of the head off.
11.png
So I ordered replacement rivet nuts which are designed to be used on plastic.
12.png
These were just going to rust again so I gave them a coating of epoxy
13.png
This was the rivet tool I used, unfortunately none of the rivets that come with the tool were useful on plastic, as when the rivet is pressed in it starts to snap the plastic.
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New nuts pressed in
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New radiator also purchased, the old was was OK, but the alloy fins around the bottom were starting to corrode.
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