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Man, this old car thing really gets ya with the details....
Was trying to get my head around missing parts that i will need soon and where to order them from. One of the things mossing from my car is the procon cable to the steering column, the other 2 are still present. I swore i could find it on audi tradition but no longer it seems. I feel as though i should at least try to make it as safe as possible seeing as my kids aren't that far from driving (i mean 6 years seems like a lot of time but it'll possibly take me 5 to get it back on the road lol).
The cabby has 2 airbags and i was planning to use it's dash anyways. Try and retrofit the bags into the coupe? The detail there would be are the pyro seat belts (set off by the airbag right?) long enough to reach the upper anchor point?
I would stick with the procon10 if you can get it to work. It was proved to be actually safer than airbags back in the day but Audi went with the crowd. I have proof it works. My brother was driving a b3 80 saloon back in about 93 and had a head on collision with a bmw 3 series whilst both cars were travelling at about 60 mph. The bmw driver was killed and although seriously injured, my brother survived. The fire officers who cut my brother out said the cable safety system had worked incredibly well and undoubtedly saved his life.
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It would undoubtedly be easier to keep it lol. I've put out the bat signal to try and find a cable but no luck yet....
Edit: actually maybe not so hard to get it??
online parts catalogue says the part number i need is 893 419 999f. Of course the russian site is acting up again (there's gotta be a better way?!) So i can't get the length.
Did a different search and came up with 4a1 419 999d. But that's a c4 chassis part number? Are they the same length? 11gbp on ebay (with friggin 40 for shipping )
Edit 2: no they are not the same length. I've joined a couple more fb groups so we'll see if i can find the cable that way. Worst case i still have the 2 going to the belts. I wanna use the dash from the cabby because it's black. But if i do that i need to figure out how to disarm the bomb that is the passenger airbag without screwing up the cover....
Last edited by ottawa coupe; 20 January 2024, 20:11.
Big gulp from the visa and i have everything needed to get it back on it's wheels as a roller making it's way to me. That is esternal diff seals, diff lock parts, cv boots, tierods and a buncha little clips. Brake lines are here so i can at least start bending them up.
As predicted, i am busier at work now (thank god) so progress on this will slow appreciably.
Hopefully brake lines by the end of the week. Fuel line seems to be taking the scenic route here though .
Still no rear subframe or uprights from sandblasting. Getting a bit annoyed. 2 days has become more than 2 weeks now, starting to delay things....
So now i've got a can of worms. I am certain if i go anywhere near the holes with a welder to plug them up, it'll just blow out into a chasm. So i'd likely need to replace whole sections of the frame. Access between the control arm mounts are limited for cutting methods i think...
If i recall, the front and rear subframes are the same core parts, just different bracketry arrangements. If so, i could just embrace the suck and harvest the front subframe from the cabby in the snow and weld on the appropriate attachments?
Either way, this be comes a project in of itself now....
edit: took a break and confirmed front and rear frames are interchangeable, at least from mounting to the car and control arm location. Threw some part numbers at audi tradition and it spit out a front frame that is common to coupe and cabrio. Logic suggests then that the cabrio frame is likely the best route to go as upon closer inspection, the coupe frame is toast. Every time i look at it, i see more holes. So, time to break out the shovels and jackstands and warm drinks and extract the cabrio frame.... i can't wait
Last edited by ottawa coupe; 22 January 2024, 19:21.
Harvested the cabby subframe. Surprisingly, it has a pretty nasty hole in it but at least it's the only one and is easily repaired. But i have visually confirmed that the 2 halves are the same pressing and that it does bolt into the rear of the car.
Downside is that it seems the 2 side mounts for the gearbox are different so i'll need to make a proper jig in order to ensure the diff is mounted in the right spot.
Given the amount of work and welding to be done, i think i'll get this one blasted as well so i'm working with the cleanest metal possible.
Cabby subframe dropped off for blasting, hopefully it won't take 2 weeks this time, although i really need to get on with brake lines.... i think i am procrastinating because the task sucks so much lol
Copper nickle lines for the win. Being able to bend and correct mistakes by hand means the rear brake lines are bent and installed in 45mins as opposed to a whole day of frustration and waste because doing 4 times to get right lol. Gotta get the flares done but i figured i should quit while i was ahead lol.
20240125_153027.jpg STILL waiting for the fuel line to arrive. Could someone enlighten me as to the order of lines? Like, is the fuel return on the outside, middle or inside?
Gotta get all the stupid plugs and grommets back in the floor and figure which ones i will steal from the cabby.
Speaking of the cabby, i am half tempted to just get the engine out in the break in the weather next week. Seeing as the subframe is already out basically the only thing i need to do underneath the car is cut the exhaust. We'll see.
still on the hunt for a procon cable for the column. If anyone knows of one i'd really appreciate it if they point me towards it.
20240126_161555.jpg but first on the agenda, bitching about something produced results again and my fuel line arrived last night lol. So now i need to know about the order of the lines, can anyone confirm?
Gotta source the right thickness of metal for the subframe and i guess that's the next big thing to tackle. The shipment from FCP (with my diff mounts) is apparently being delivered via mule so it's gonna be a while.....
thanks, copper nickel lines make it soooo much easier.
started my nightmare job... cleaning and repacking CVs. at least it's not like back in the day when i would do this in an unheated garage in in the winter. god that was cold for the fingers!
hopefully by the weekend i am in a position to dig into the rear subframe.
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