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Ever do something you think is so great and incredible you just have to share it with people? I did and have been doing over the last two weeks.
I picked up 2 Audi 100's (an 89 and a 90) that have been sitting for quite some time. I'm talking in particular about the 89 here. We got the car in pieces, the intake had been removed the belts and pulleys were in the trunk the radiator support and grille had been removed and the interior was full of water because the car had set with the windows down for almost a year. There was promise in these cars anyways, so I picked them up.
Having no previous experience raising vehicles from the dead, enlisted the help of my good friend Michael. We assesed the situation and went to work. This car had blown it's motor, so the guy we bought them from put a motor with only 30k miles out of a car that hadn't run in almost 7 years. The P.O. was an import mechanic, but got frustrated with this car and put it up for sale. It came with new hoses belts and a couple of sensors.
The first thing we noticed was that the timing belt was slipping off the cam sprocket toward the engine. Doh! The previous owner had put the cam pulley on backwards! Score! We put the intake back together, hooked up a cheap battery, set the timing, turned the key and whiir whir, whir, vroooom! Success!
To make long story short we fixed a bunch of other crap, cleaned out the int. (still smells bad) put the carpet and seats back in and took her on the maiden voyage yesterday. Despite the fact that we didn't tighten the lugnuts, the journey went without incident. I have great pictures, which I'll be posting soon.
The point to this seemingly pointless post is this. I feel like I'm on top of the world now! My current job is working with PC's and as much as I like to help people, I don't get a great amount of satisfaction from it. But taking this immobile object, cleaning it up and making it run under it's own power is one of the greatest tasks I have ever accomplished. Maybe it's a man thing, I don't know, but it brings me great satisfaction to get really dirty and a little cut up, but have something to show for it at the end of the day.
Just thought I would share. Thanks for listening.
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Chris
I picked up 2 Audi 100's (an 89 and a 90) that have been sitting for quite some time. I'm talking in particular about the 89 here. We got the car in pieces, the intake had been removed the belts and pulleys were in the trunk the radiator support and grille had been removed and the interior was full of water because the car had set with the windows down for almost a year. There was promise in these cars anyways, so I picked them up.
Having no previous experience raising vehicles from the dead, enlisted the help of my good friend Michael. We assesed the situation and went to work. This car had blown it's motor, so the guy we bought them from put a motor with only 30k miles out of a car that hadn't run in almost 7 years. The P.O. was an import mechanic, but got frustrated with this car and put it up for sale. It came with new hoses belts and a couple of sensors.
The first thing we noticed was that the timing belt was slipping off the cam sprocket toward the engine. Doh! The previous owner had put the cam pulley on backwards! Score! We put the intake back together, hooked up a cheap battery, set the timing, turned the key and whiir whir, whir, vroooom! Success!
To make long story short we fixed a bunch of other crap, cleaned out the int. (still smells bad) put the carpet and seats back in and took her on the maiden voyage yesterday. Despite the fact that we didn't tighten the lugnuts, the journey went without incident. I have great pictures, which I'll be posting soon.
The point to this seemingly pointless post is this. I feel like I'm on top of the world now! My current job is working with PC's and as much as I like to help people, I don't get a great amount of satisfaction from it. But taking this immobile object, cleaning it up and making it run under it's own power is one of the greatest tasks I have ever accomplished. Maybe it's a man thing, I don't know, but it brings me great satisfaction to get really dirty and a little cut up, but have something to show for it at the end of the day.
Just thought I would share. Thanks for listening.
Chris
