My Ocianic Blue Ur restoration

[4WDrifter]

I made up a new splash guard from tractor inner tube. Strange there is only one on the nearside on the Ur.




Tie rods were fitted. These failed quality control last week so have been stripped and painted again. There were one or two rust spots coming through.


And then drive shafts. All new cv joints.




And I got this from Rob on the forum. Very impressive copy of the original.


I'm waiting for my new boost hoses which are coming from Germany. I got stung this time with import duty. Cry.
They are in the Swansea Parcel Force depot for the weekend sadly.



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Did the car have splash guards fitted originally?
I can appreciate what they’re designed to do but have most uRs lost them through time?
What material was originally used for them?

[Tractor Dave]

They were only fitted on one side. The original material was a type of rubber sheet.

[4WDrifter]

They were only fitted on one side. The original material was a type of rubber sheet.

Thanks. The reason I’m interested is that I knew that something like that or a wheel arch liner would contain a lot of the spray and rubbish thrown up from the road in the arch rather than it finding its way into the engine bay. I’m guessing it was on the near side as there’s more sh*te to be thrown up from the kerb side. Both sides, if I’m making them myself, probably won’t do any harm.

[Tractor Dave]

Yes, good plan but you will have to drill holes for the other side.

[4WDrifter]

Are these the holes I use on the front side of the passenger side?

[Tractor Dave]

Upper yes, lower no. You can see where the button clips are in my pic above.

[4WDrifter]

Great I’ll get measuring this incoming week

[hashluck]

Dave, Having read the Fuchs product specification, it states that CHF11S is actually synthetic and not mineral based as I assumed but it is suitable. I found a very informative link explaining the differences between PAS fluid types.

HTH

https://powerracksdirect.co.uk/what-fluid-to-use/

Old thread but just been researching this myself and found this

There has been a good measure of controversy over this question. Here is what our own experience shows. Over the last decade we've had no compatibility problems mixing the CHF 7.1 non-synthetic mineral base fluid and the CHF 11S synthetic based Audi power steering fluid. No problems with our own vehicles and no problems with our customers vehicles. Our success in mixing the 2 Audi power steering fluids coincides with the Audi tech bulletin 48-89-T07 issued in November 1989. It states "The new [synthetic Pentosin 11S] and old power steering fluid [non-synthetic Pentosin 7.1] can be mixed if necessary ... the part number [remains] unchanged." So according to Audi, you can mix the 2 Audi power steering fluids. Even though the composition of the fluid changed (CHF 11S synthetic mineral oil vs CHF 7.1 non-synthetic mineral oil), Audi didn't even change the part number. All 1990 - on Audi models have come filled from the factory with the synthetic CHF 11S Audi power steering fluid (G002000). Please Note: Never mix generic power steering fluid or other fluid with the CHF 7.1 or CHF 11S Audi power steering fluid (G002000). If you or someone else did, flush the Audi power steering fluid as described below.