Titanium Grey S4 Avant

**hunker7** · 4 August 2015, 10:25

Got some exhaust gasket material to make new downpipe gaskets as Audi doesn't do them anymore

Definitely not paranoid of getting it dirty

P.S. Yes, I know I have the cover on and it will shorten the life of coils

**quattrostyle** · 4 August 2015, 10:59

Why not add some washers to the underside of the coil cover so at least some air flow can go over the coils?

**hunker7** · 4 August 2015, 11:03

Originally posted by quattrostyle

Why not add some washers to the underside of the coil cover so at least some air flow can go over the coils?

I actually been looking at having spacers of some sort.

**UrS4boy** · 4 August 2015, 15:06

Originally posted by hunker7

...P.S. Yes, I know I have the cover on and it will shorten the life of coils

YUP. It will. Guaranteed.

**andy10v** · 4 August 2015, 21:00

Looking very clean.

**hunker7** · 5 August 2015, 13:09

As usual something HAS to go wrong.

Basically one of the exhaust stud holes have had a thread repair in the past, and what happened when I was removing it broke the thread insert in half, so now I can't drill it out. Any suggestions that doesn't involve removing head?

**hunker7** · 5 August 2015, 15:02

Should mention it's at the very end where downpipe is.

**andy10v** · 5 August 2015, 19:56

Can you get a picture of what is left?

**hunker7** · 5 August 2015, 20:01

Not really. Judging by the piece that came out there is about a half left in there.

**newsh** · 5 August 2015, 20:07

Is it one of the downpipe studs on the outlet of the exhaust manifold?

Show us a pic of the bit that came out and the location of the stud that you mean.

**newsh** · 5 August 2015, 20:10

Oh, it's one of the exhaust manifold studs in the head? Can you not just screw the thing back in with the helicoil on it? Why did you take the exhaust mani off?

**hunker7** · 5 August 2015, 20:14

That's the one. I can't screw it back on because thread is non existent. I literally pulled the broken half out with the stud, which makes me think the thread has been badly done when fixing it.

It came off as I wanted to change manifold, gasket seemed to be blowing slightly and it gave me a better access to get it all cleaned up.

**newsh** · 5 August 2015, 20:21

Ok, maybe you can get a pick in there and hook the thread out, then drill and tap and fit a Timsert.

**hunker7** · 5 August 2015, 20:23

That's the best shot, but tried it yesterday without any luck. Maybe will try some bolt extractors.

**Error404** · 5 August 2015, 20:32

This is s job for Mr Dremel

Titanium Grey S4 Avant

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