My Ocianic Blue Ur restoration

[Tractor Dave]

Thanks Steve. I do like to try and do the best I can.
hopefully have it in its wheels soon

[steve briance]

Loving these updates, not only do they satisfy my thirst for seeing clean working parts on a restored car (bodywork is ok but for me it's what lies underneath that i like the most) but, the next installment seems to come along every other day!

Awesome

[Tractor Dave]

So today I decided to fit my propshaft.
First I took the cv joints apart and cleaned them out. New grease and they are good to go.


I also took the opportunity to grease the centre joint.


And up it goes. I'm normally working on my own so have to come up with ways to do these things by yourself.


Also got the downpipe on.


And had a tidy up ready for the oil cooler. The heat shields are new.



The oil cooler is having a tidy up and shampoo before it goes back.


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[newsh]

Very tidy!

[Tractor Dave]

So, while waiting for some new flag terminals I decided to have a look at the fuel lines. If you remember from when I put the engine in I just caught one pipe whilst jacking up the gearbox. Unfortunately it was the high pressure one (feed). I couldn't really see how bad it was but didn't want to take a chance. I decided to replace it. I've done quite a few of these now.

The damage wasn't actually that bad.


I found an old pulley that's really handy when making the tight bends.


And this new tool is brilliant at making flares. Don't forget the nut!


I had some heat resistant sleeving which is useful on the section near the exhaust. The original pipes didn't have this but it is on later Audi's. It's also useful where the pipes might rub against the body on the up into bay section.


All done.



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[Tractor Dave]

Just a bit of wear and tear plus heat damage. Having to cut bits out and replace with good. Before I started, I had boost cut issues. Think I found the issue as behind the rubber insulator on the air intake sensor, the wires had fallen out completely after a previous bodge repair. Sensor itself test good which is a relief as they are hard to find and made of unobtainium

[B5NUT]

Does not sound good what's wrong with the current harness?

[Tractor Dave]

Bear with me guys. Having to remake most of the loom in the engine bay

[sal_s2]

They go through the big seal under the tank.


At least they do on mine.


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Thanks for that. I thought so but couldnt remember!

[newsh]

Thanks. I didn't have any in the parts box so you got me worried. My pics showed wires cable tied to oil cooler pipes. That can't be right

Actually I think that's how it's done but the trouble with that is what happens to the cooler pipes when they're old and go hairy.

[Tractor Dave]

Thanks. I didn't have any in the parts box so you got me worried. My pics showed wires cable tied to oil cooler pipes. That can't be right

[newsh]

Thanks John. I don't suppose you have a pic of the support grommets

I'd like to say yes but after 5 minutes with my head under the front bumper and a few pics with my phone I have absolutely no grommets to show, so now I'm thinking the grommet bracket is an S2 thing, or if not it's gone missing from the UR during the rebuild. However my memory is not totally shot as the alternator wires are covered with new yellow heatproof fibreglass sleeving. Need to jack the car up and have a proper look at some point!

[Tractor Dave]

Definitely worth taking some time to make sure the starter and alternator wiring is good, well insulated and the support grommets are present and in good shape. One of the thick wires on mine rubbed through its insulation and was intermittently shorting to chassis, made for a very interesting midnight drive home down the M40 from Birmingham in a lightning storm!

Thanks John. I don't suppose you have a pic of the support grommets

[newsh]

Definitely worth taking some time to make sure the starter and alternator wiring is good, well insulated and the support grommets are present and in good shape. One of the thick wires on mine rubbed through its insulation and was intermittently shorting to chassis, made for a very interesting midnight drive home down the M40 from Birmingham in a lightning storm!

[Tractor Dave]

Quite a lot of boring stuff to do now.
Torqued up all the subframe bolts and engine mounts.
Also got the big boys toys out for the crank bolt.


I wasn't happy how the gearbox mounts sat.


The cup washer was way off the bush. These are Meyle bushes. So I happened to have a pair of Febi ones so swapped them over.


Much better.

I fitted new gearbox linkage and mount ball.


But I'm not getting half the gears so will have to make some adjustments.

Starter motor fitted.


And the link coolant pipe which I got from another forum member.


Just been looking at the wiring loom that runs around the starter and alternator. It's not in a great shape so I've got some fixing to do.


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