80 TDI daily driver

[gunman]

Quick update. I got the pump back yesterday after sending it off to be cleaned. Refitted it today and set the IQ with vagcom. I haven't had the chance to drive it yet but the idle is spot on smooth so I'm hopefull. I'll check in later with the findings of the test drive.

[gunman]

Well, she seems to be fixed

Drove the car for about 30 mins this evening and the judder has gone. Was able to sit at 35mph in 5th at around 1200rpm. Never able to do that on it before without feeling like I was on a massage chair.

Idle is smooth as well, no rocking going on at all.

So, thanks to ManiacuV6 for sorting the pump out for me as I really didn't fancy taking the pump apart myself.

The car is taking ages to get up to temp, on the 15-20 min drive to work the temp gauge doesn't get up to 90. I replaced the stat and given enough time it will reach 90 and stay there. I dont even know if blanking a section of the rad off would help.

[ManiacuV6]

Great news ! I'm sure that your car will be ok.

About the radiator you need to block like the area of 2---3 *A4 sheets of paper .
None will enjoy taking all the injection pump out and after same time to put it back.

[gunman]

I swapped out the throttle sensor today, it was lucky that I'd bought a spares car fopr 2 reasons, one was that the throttle pot I had bought had a different plug on it and the other is that I broke the plastic mount for the throttle pedal when I was taking it off. Luckily the pot off the spares car fitted and the pedal was good too.

The car is driving really well now. It's the way it should have been when I bought it as it was described as being a great driver!

The throttle pots looked the same but the one on my car has a 6 pin plug, the other has a 5 pin, but it does have 6 wires, one of which is cut. The colours match so I'm thinking if I spliced the 6 pin plug on it probably would have worked. Only other thing I did was swap the 3 spoke wheel over as I couldn't live with the floppy rubber thing that was on it.

The alloys can wait until the new year.

[macspring]

Hi Gunman,

Enjoying the thread.

What's the story with your possible gearbox leak ?

Kind regards.

[gunman]

Hi Gunman,

Enjoying the thread.

What's the story with your possible gearbox leak ?

Kind regards.

Nearly forgot about that one. It's def leaking from the gear selector input. I'll look at that next. I have the spare gearbox here and still have the clutch from my last tdi which did about 10k miles after being changed. I may just swap the boxes and fit the clutch while I'm at it, this one is very close to the top and the car has 140k. Probably original clutch.

I may speak with Audi to see if these seals are available tho as the box seems good in it. If anyone else knows a source for the seals I'd be interested to find out.

[ManiacuV6]

I had a look and the code for seal is 012301457C (16 X24 X 6 ) . You can use a screw to make the removal more easy.

[gunman]

Thanks.

I'll get on that next then.

[gunman]

I started the refurb of the wheels last week. 4 of them were sanblasted and done with etch primer. Today I have them sitting in 2k primer (flatted back) and am ready to basecoat and laquer them tomorrow. They were actually in fairly good order, not too much corrosion. At some stage they has polished lips which had been laquered, this was the worst bit of them.

Here's a couple of pics as they are now, I'll post up some of the finished rims tomorrow (provided they turn out alright )

[gunman]

I got the rims painted today. Not over happy with the finish on the laquer, not sure whether it was my fault or the fact that the laquer is 3 years old ( which is my fault too I suppose). It didn't seem to atomise as well as it should. Good thing about a wheel is that anyone who's looking at them tend to have their eyes at least 5 feet away

Here's a couple of pics:

[andy10v]

Looks pretty good anyway.

What are you painting with?

[gunman]

Looks pretty good anyway.

What are you painting with?

In terms of paint?

I got the paint from wheelpaints a while back, it's a sports silver metalic and a 2k laquer.

TBH, I would go for a slightly darker basecoat next time. They do the match of the audi factory wheels as well.

Problem is now that they want silly money to post to N.Ireland, I may have to look for a local source now as I'm hoping to do a set of S2 Avus wheels next.

[andy10v]

Paint and gun.

Will check out the supplier, thanks.

I have some body work and wheels to do.

[gunman]

Paint and gun.

Will check out the supplier, thanks.

I have some body work and wheels to do.

Using a devilbiss Finishline FLG3 for the primer (with 1.8mm nozzle) and a devilbiss GTI with a 1.4mm nozzle for the basecoat and laquer. Guns are run off a 150l 3HP compressor and I also have a 3HP 50l compressor to run a Sata air fed mask.

I got all the kit a few years back when Iwas restoring an Opel Manta. I sprayed it myself in the garage, was a real learning curve.

[andy10v]

Using a devilbiss Finishline FLG3 for the primer (with 1.8mm nozzle) and a devilbiss GTI with a 1.4mm nozzle for the basecoat and laquer. Guns are run off a 150l 3HP compressor and I also have a 3HP 50l compressor to run a Sata air fed mask.

I got all the kit a few years back when Iwas restoring an Opel Manta. I sprayed it myself in the garage, was a real learning curve.

Cool, thanks

I think I am about to hit that curve