My silver RS2 Project

[Ian Simmonds]

what??? First I’ve heard of this… would make sense though as I’ve been through a few mafs now. Every days a school day I guess, think I know what my next purchase is going to be now

Sadly, the filtration oils get drawn off the filter into the induction system, contaminating the MAF sensor wire. I salvaged my first MAF twice with an isopropyl alcohol bath, but it died after that. The current MAF went on about 13-years ago with OE filters, it’s not had a bath or played up once.

[K Simmonds]

Sadly, the filtration oils get drawn off the filter into the induction system, contaminating the MAF sensor wire. I salvaged my first MAF twice with an isopropyl alcohol bath, but it died after that. The current MAF went on about 13-years ago with OE filters, it’s not had a bath or played up once.

Yep, the oil on the K&N cone fitted when I got the car killed my first 3B MAF pretty quickly, I cleaned it once to try and cure poor running which it did briefly, then the MAF died completely.

Fitted an RS2 air-box as they were affordable back in 2008 and a genuine Audi paper filter as I could still get them back then and never had a problem again and I am pretty sure the car went better.

[K Simmonds]

I have a full set of Teng. For 10nm I use the smallest (5nm to 25nm).
i will do some testing tomorrow using another to see how consistent they are.

Getting torque as low as 10nm bang on is pretty tricky even with the best possible torque wrench, it's so easy to go slightly too far or only just hit 10nm.

I suspect the wrench you used is reading slightly low, even being only one or two nm out could cause a leak like that on such a low torque fastener.

Hopefully it's still dry in the morning, which isn't long now...

I've only just gotten out of the workshop after a crazy tiding spree and it's still not how I want it.

[Tractor Dave]

It's dry. However, I'm not celebrating yet. I need to re check this after first run of the engine as the oil is cold atm.
Anyway, cracking on with a few other things.
The propshaft got a clean, re grease and fresh paint.


All the bolts got a clean and I replaced a couple that had damaged heads.

A little rtv was placed on the seal to help it stay where it's meant to be.



Thread lock on the bolts and it's back on the car. I will get a pic tomorrow.


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[Tractor Dave]

Here it is.


And now I can refit the heat shields.



Next job is the exhaust.
Cats got a scrub.


And I made some spring loaded mounts with some stainless tube and parts I had knocking about. The originals were missing.



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[K Simmonds]

Fair play Dave that's starting to look really tidy now.

It's going to be a lovely car underneath, what the top side paint work like?

[Tractor Dave]

Its not bad. A few rusty bits bottom of front wings and couple of scabs around the windscreen.. A nasty dent in the drivers door and the odd small dent here and there.

[K Simmonds]

That's a bit of a Ssd, getting paint to match a 30 year old metallic silver car is going to be difficult, sounds like a full respray apart from the roof if it's dent free may be the required.

Avant tailgates and bottom of B/4 wings are always the places rust first rears it head, though I expect you know this by now.

[Tractor Dave]

I've had a nasty cold for the last few days and have done very little.
Today I cleaned up these (thanks Sal)and made up some rubber bits using some foam sheet.


Then I went to fit the exhaust but found that the sealing ring I ordered was the incorrect size.
The one I had enabled me to fit one side. Plenty of copper grease on the new ring helps these seat nicely.




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[Tractor Dave]

Next job on the list is the front driveshafts.
They got a clean.


Marked and disassembled



Given a wire brush




Masked off and some zinc.



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[Tractor Dave]

I also made a start cleaning up the parts required to re build the struts.




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[John.]

I also made a start cleaning up the parts required to re build the struts.

Are you fitting new bump stops or are the ones on the struts ok?

[Tractor Dave]

I have some new ones. The old ones were falling apart.

[John.]

I have some new ones. The old ones were falling apart.

Were they easy to get, I ordered a kit from autodoc and only the gaiters were in the box so still need to get some.

[Tractor Dave]

I couldn't find the originals. The auto doc ones I ordered a couple of years back didn't fit at all. I have found bump stops from an alfa gtv that fit not too bad. I have a spare set here I think.
Alternatively, Classic Quattro (Simon) sells a set of bumps and boots that fit ok ish.