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the fan resistor is right to the right of the power steering tank. That area behind the driver eh.. I mean passenger side head light. A nice close up would be awesome.
Ok, no problem Josh. It's dark outside now, but I'll take a few tomorrow and post them up
Jase..
2001 Avus Silver B5 RS4.
2004 A4 Avant 1.8T quattro Sport-LE.
1995 S2 Coupe - sold (sniff)
Here you go Josh. Fixed only at the top as you can see in the photo
Part number 4A0 959 493 A.
awesome, thanks a bunch. I think I might like to do that exact setup. I might have to get someone to ship the part from europe but that's ok. Maybe I can get the heater control knob surround in black plastic not wood, without ac too while I'm at it.
I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got quattro?
awesome, thanks a bunch. I think I might like to do that exact setup. I might have to get someone to ship the part from europe but that's ok. Maybe I can get the heater control knob surround in black plastic not wood, without ac too while I'm at it.
You should be able to get that part quite easily, depends if you want the earlier or later one in black earlier has square type control knobs, later one has rounded style. Stiglett might have one spare he'd send over.
This swap of my has me overwelmed at times but it's going very well. I had to take a double look the next day at your picture and then I realize that your fan setup is for only two speeds. Which totaly makes sense because u don't have AC. So then it I realized I don't have AC either and I really don't need a three speed setup. I'm going to look into getting this audi A4 unit. Maybe if I'm lucky I can pull one from the local junkyard tomorrow after work. It's a little more compact and anything smaller than normal is allways good with my v8 swap. I think that bracket or that idea, is my current back up plan right now but I thank u for the picture again and making me realize I've got some options. Not to say that I don't have options but sometimes my brain doesn't think as creative as it can sometimes. I need to be influenced by some idea or picture and then take it from there.
thanks again.
I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got quattro?
After lavishing all that care, attention and new parts, she goes and spits the dummy right out of the pram...................well! I should say spat the water pump.
Started the car after work the other night and she sounded a bit more rattly than usual, more rattly than an oil burner should. Got on the A1 and half way home the water level/temp light came on on the minicheck. Stopped in the services where I get off the A1 and "tried" to have a look. I say "tried" as the area where the water is, is in complete darkness and I could have been butt humped by an elephant for three weeks before someone would notice
Filled her expansion tank up and got home ok. Had a look with me big torch and the pulley off the water pump is wobbling around like a plate full of wobbly things. Guess that'll be the bearings shagged then. Water slowly dripping out of the pulley spindle.
The water pump isn't situated like our 20vT's, it's sort of an extension off the side of the block, powered by an aux belt which also runs the PAS pump.
Job getting done today, £80 all in for pump replacement, coolant change and thermostat. "Mates rates" at my local specialists
And lots of swarf chucked down onto the PAS pump.
2001 Avus Silver B5 RS4.
2004 A4 Avant 1.8T quattro Sport-LE.
1995 S2 Coupe - sold (sniff)
Unlucky Jas. At least its not the HG, which is what went in mine....
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Have seen a few threads on here asking about five lugs conversions on non quattro's, so better stick this up on how I've done it.
I got to the point of being sick and tired of hunting out info on the net and going cross eyed looking through the utter minefield that is the driveshaft/CV section in the FA, that it was better to just say fug it and try it.
82mm wheel bearings, 75mm, bearings, shaft diameters, spline counts on shafts and CV's, hub bolts and on and on and on........nightmare!!
But, it worked, the research paid off in the end.
(Note, I opted to keep the standard brakes even though I have a set of G60's which would have bolted on in conjunction with standard S2 front discs)
Parts used to convert to five lugs on Sooty.
Front.
1/ S2 hubs and hub carriers complete with ABS sensors.
2/ Outer CV joints from a 2.8cq,
3/ Outer CV boot kits for a 2.8cq,
4/ New 280mm x 10mm solid front discs, re-drilled for 5x112 PCD
5/ New set of pads.
Rear.
1/ New 1995 B5 A4 1.6/1.8/1.9TDi FWD rear discs (the disc IS the hub)
2/ New 80/A4 inner and outer wheels bearings,
3/ New 80/A4 ABS rings,
4/ New set of pads.
Procedure;
Front.
Before jacking the car up, loosen off the driveshaft retaining bolt. Jack the car up and place securely on axle stands. Remove wheel then remove the driveshaft retaining bolt. Undo pinch bolt on bottom ball joint and use a copper/hide mallet to drop the balljoint off the hub carrier. The front brake discs were relatively new so didn't have a big lip on their outer edge. This meant we could just slip the complete caliper off the discs without removing the pads. Again the pads were relatively new, so it was decided to refit them later. Removed disc, both were firmly stuck to the hub so needed a good few smacks with the mallet to get them off. Remove the three bolts securing the brake shield to the hub carrier (note the brake shield on this TDi, I had a big argument with someone a couple of years ago who said these were only ever fitted to the RS2, nope, my S2 has them too)
Pull forward on the strut/hub carrier and the outer CV will pull through the hub out of the other side. Open the bonnet, locate the two ABS sensor connections, both secured to the front of the strut towers, one behind the air box, the other behind the expansion tank. Push the cabling and connectors through the strut towers to the inside of the wheelarch.
Undo the hub carrier to strut bolts and remove the hub carrier.
Two ways of doing this next bit of removing the CV joint from the end of the driveshaft. This depends if there are two of you working on the car. As both were getting done at the same time on mine, this meant if we had used the method of tightening the hub bolt back in to push the CV off the shaft, it wouldn't have worked as both driveshafts are free to turn. We used the mallet to shock the CV joint off the shaft after peeling back the CV boot. Just a couple of sharp taps and off they came.
Remove the old CV and clean up the end of the shaft. When removing the old CV's, remember to note the correct order and orientation of the dished washer and plastic thrust ring that are on the inboard side of the shaft.
Refitting is the reverse of removal, with a couple of notes to make. Check the new CV in the hub, make sure the ABS sensor isn't fouling the ABS ring, if it is, just "slightly" tap it back until the joint is free to rotate. NOT too much though. Use the grease supplied with the boot kit. Mine came with two separate packets of it, One packet for the joint and one for the boot. Use it!! Be careful when putting the new CV on the end of the shaft, don't go guns blazing with a hammer trying to whack it on. Make sure the splines are engaging BEFORE giving it a knock with the mallet to engage it over the circlip on the end of the shaft. I didn't and nearly fecked the shaft
Once everything is reassembled, REMEMBER to torque up the driveshaft retaining bolt when the wheel is back on the ground. A tightening torque of 200nm + 90° is needed. Make sure you have a torque wrench that goes to 200nm. Scary too, thought they were going to snap at that torque
Rear.
Make sure handbrake is off!!
Once wheel is off and car secured on stands and the front wheels chocked, use a 13mm and 15mm spanner to undo the slider pins on the caliper, the caliper can then be moved off the carrier and tie wrapped up out of the way. Remove the carrier allen bolts with an allen socket rather than a key, you don't want them rounding off. They are usually VERY tight, so use releasing spray or heat if need using caution as you do.
Once the carrier is out of the way, remove disc. In our case, again both discs were firmly stuck to the hubs, this wasn't a concern as the hub was coming off too. Remove the grease cap being careful not to dent it out of shape, it has to be refitted with a good seal, water ingress at a later date isn't good. Remove split pin, locking ring and then the hex bolt. On both sides of mine the hex bolt was only finger tight as it's supposed to be (more later), remove thrust washer and then grab the disc (or hub if your discs came off easily) and pull the hub off the stub axle. All you'll be left with is a bare hub axle.
Again refitting is reverse of removal with a couple of notes to make.
Clean the stub axle and apply a little high temp grease. Clean the axle backing plate, notably the ABS sensor "without" moving it.
Fit your A4 discs/hub onto the axle and refit the thrust washer and hex nut. DO NOT tighten this hard with a spanner/ratchet. tighten it enough so that the thrust washer behind can be moved with a screwdriver. Refit the locking ring, if the split pin can not be put through one of the holes in the end of the stub axle, DO NOT tighten the hex nut, back it off slightly.
After getting to the stage of refitting the caliper to the carrier, you'll need to wind the piston back in. We didn't have the correct wind back tool, but a pair of long nose pliers did the job without any fuss. Push and turn the piston clockwise back into its bore. Refit wheel.
Once the car is back on all four newly fitted five lug hubs, remember to pump the brake pedal a few times to reseat the pads front and rear. DO NOT PUT YOUR HANDBRAKE ON until the pedal has gone hard indicating the pistons in each caliper are where they should be.
Jase..
Last edited by Jas11n; 13 June 2008, 10:01.
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2001 Avus Silver B5 RS4.
2004 A4 Avant 1.8T quattro Sport-LE.
1995 S2 Coupe - sold (sniff)
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A nice close up would be awesome.
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