A little something to keep me busy

[Tractor Dave]

Happy to assist in any way I can.

I'm really enjoying working on this car and will be looking for my own Urs6 when it goes.

[hunker7]

I will include some tips after I get it back together. A couple of things I've already noticed is that the subframe bushes have no washers and the cross member to diff front bushes are wider than the original and therefore need longer bolts

That is really annoying considering the cost of them. I know someone who makes poly bushes and they're copies of original.

I will probably have few questions, mainly around what products you've used and things.

[Tractor Dave]

Yes, it a good job. Have to say I don't miss having to hunt around for obsolete bushes. That was the biggest pain with the S2 hunting for the correct parts. What's the bill on parts for the S6 looking like? More of less than the S2?

I will add it all up at the end but it's looking about the same.

[Tractor Dave]

Great work mate, looking forward to updates! Making notes as I go along when I come to doing all that on mine in few weeks time

I will include some tips after I get it back together. A couple of things I've already noticed is that the subframe bushes have no washers and the cross member to diff front bushes are wider than the original and therefore need longer bolts

[B5NUT]

Yes, it a good job. Have to say I don't miss having to hunt around for obsolete bushes. That was the biggest pain with the S2 hunting for the correct parts. What's the bill on parts for the S6 looking like? More of less than the S2?

[hunker7]

Great work mate, looking forward to updates! Making notes as I go along when I come to doing all that on mine in few weeks time

[Tractor Dave]

They turned up this afternoon.


Everything seems to fit perfectly so far.
Now the re assembly begins.



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[Tractor Dave]

It's a nice sunny day and perfect for zinc paint.


If you remember a couple of weeks back my Dewalt drill fell apart whilst drilling out bushes. I got a replacement within 24hrs from FFX but realised it was still under the 3 year warranty with Dewalt. They collected it last week and it came back today. Amazing service. Works perfectly. Now I have a spare.
Straight away I put it to good use drilling out the old cut off bolt in the hub carrier.


Then tapped in new threads.


Unfortunately Error isn't going to have any billet connectors in time for this project so I got a Vaico one. Audi version is nla and only other option is topran which I wouldn't trust. The Vaico looks sturdy and fits well.


My bushes never turned up yesterday. DPD are not very reliable anymore around here. Sad face.


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[Rikki Kitto]

Amazing these are all now NLA, Audi are truly rubbish in this respect

[Tractor Dave]

Apparently my bushes are coming from Verkline tomorrow.
I made a start getting things together.


And cleaned up the many bolts, most of which are nla from Audi.




They will get treated and painted.


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[Tractor Dave]

Diff Bush removal looks a bit brutal, well done on getting it out

It had well and truly welded itself in there. Fold the lip over with old blunt wood chisel then using large drift hit it like f##k in the right direction

[B5NUT]

When it all goes wrong you can always count on a BFH

[Rikki Kitto]

Diff Bush removal looks a bit brutal, well done on getting it out

[steve briance]

I made this pipe straightener when i decided i didnt want to spend the money on the kwix tool. They really are the business but a bit too much for me and the amount of pipes i make.

My design sort of copies the principle and worked pretty much as well. Keep working pipe back and forth and rotating it - the rotating action replicates the action of 4 rows of rollers but with just 2.

[Tractor Dave]

Thanks for the heads up. I will see how much they are.

The remaining brake lines were good but the plastic coating had some damage.
They got rubbed down and painted with epoxy.





Then the rear driveshafts were finished off with the new cv joints.


Onto the rear diff. Old bush removed and housing cleaned up ready for the new polybush.




Input flange got cleaned ready for paint.


And output shaft seals got changed.


The big one was a sod to get out but easy to put in. I managed to get this from Tradition. Seems to be the only place selling them now?




I just need to put some fresh oil in then it's more or less done.


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