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Started to put the car car back together yesterday. Unfortunately it's been two years since we last saw where everything went so it's a bit of a challenge. Fortunately we have an 83 in the corner to refer to. Unfortunately, because it's a Quattro you can't see anything LOL.

Still, we press on regardless.

Aligned the engine and torqued all the subframe, engine and transmission bolts. Well, the ones you can get a torque wrench on.

connected the hydraulic pipe to the bomb. This connection does not seem to rotate so we took the bomb off and rotated that instead. This is now the third time we have installed the bomb.

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Reconected the exhaust.

Reconnected the rear drive shaft.

Reconnected the shift linkage. Goes into all the gears but might need adjusting though.

Installed the right engine mount heat shield, again. It wanted to go in front of the oil cooler mounting tab so we mounted that too. I bet we take it off again later.

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Installed the right transmission mount heat shield. Yes, we are missing a screw. It's like no other screw on the planet and seems to be NLA. Thanks Audi.

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Reconnected the clutch line.

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Not sure when we'll get chance to throw some more parts at it. Schedule is a bit full for the foreseeable future and the Tour de France is on TV six hours a day!

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Le Tour be dammed; we're working the car! A bit.

Got the oil bollocks, er, we mean oil filters installed.

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and the front torque support/alternator mount. What does that do anyway?

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Installed the vacuum lines on the front diff actuator while it is still accessible. Looks like we may have guessed the orientation correctly.

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Axle, strut and brakes! Well, on one side at least but still......

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It's starting to look like a car again. Next year we'll install the strut on the other side

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More progress. Yes, we know. We are going nuts.

We had to put the other side's front suspension on. We couldn't help ourselves.

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The interesting thing now is that we could roll it off the hoist if needed. However, we swore it would only ever drive off. Let's see how that works out.

One exciting (to us) aspect of the suspension reinstall is that we think we may have found a solution for a problem that isn't really a problem. Due to the upper strut bushings compressing even when new, there is always a gap between the strut top and the body. We found some rubber washers in the plumbing isle that fill this gap perfectly and installed them today. Makes us warm and fuzzy inside.

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We used two per side. One and a half would have been perfect.

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Paul,

toilet parts installed in a Ur Quattro.
All the great work you put into it and now this, I am disappointed. :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Ciao

Werner

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Some bright spark pointed out that the strut top has to be loose enough to rotate with the strut shaft so we removed one washer.

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Then we reinstalled the inner CV heat shield on the right side.

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These are the wires which have to find their way onto the starter. We are not sure where the two different style of spade connectors go. Any insight?

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so we took a guess for now. Are we right?

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Reinstalled the alternator, intercooler and turbo intake hose.

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All that's really left is the radiator, hydraulic system, ignition system, throttle body, injection system and to connect a bunch of wires and vacuum hoses. How hard could it be?

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Quite a bit of progress today.

Installed the front anti roll bar. Almost forgot it had one.

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Installed the new hydraulic pump belt. Of course we had to remove the pump to get the belt over the pulleys. Not a lot of room in front.

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Also installed the alternator belt though we didn't think we had one. Our car (WX) is supposed to use a 9.5x850 v-belt but we only had a 9.5x786 for the WR and GV model. Turned out that was the right one for our WX. Go figure. This one went on a lot easier than the pump belt though tightening the alernator pivot bolt was a challenge.

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Excited buy our belt success we looked in the parts box to see what else we could throw at the car. We decided to reinstall the hydraulic hoses and reservoir as it all goes on the left side of the engine bay and would be easier now rather than with the radiator in place. But first we had to locate and connect a few wires as these all reside under the hoses. The wiring connectors are beginning to find their own ways home but some are still troubling us. We are hoping those will become obvious soon enough.

First the oil reservoir. We thought we'd dismantle on the bench and see if any of the parts indicated on the parts diagrams needed replacing. However ours was empty inside. Is this right?

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It worked before so we reinstalled it.

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Then we reinstalled all the hydraulic lines.

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Next time we think we'll put the cooling system back. Hopefully that wont be too long from now.

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STAY COOL AND QUATTRO ON.

Yes, we put the cooling system back in. Found some new old stock hoses in the parts bin too

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Starting to look together

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On an unrelated topic does anyone know which one of these two connectors goes to the warm up regulator and where the other one goes to?

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Next, the ignition system, perhaps.

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However, this little spring was left over from the distributor refresh. We can't figure out where it came from. It's not shown on the parts diagram. Any ideas?

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We also found some new ignition leads in the parts bin. 200998031A
Right ones?

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Paul,

gray to gray and black to black.

The spring is from the governor, wouldn't work to well without it. :-)))))

Ciao

Werner

PS: He is running again, just trim and a/c charge left.

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Not had much time to work on the car lately what with work and domestic activities but here's a little video Winding Road did of the car a few years ago as motivation for us and a teaser for you. Soon be doing this again.



[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCaySv1Blok"]1985 Audi Ur-Quattro - WR TV Sights & Sounds - YouTube[/ame]

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When we left you we were trying to figure out where the little spring went in the distributor and contemplating reinstalling the ignition system. Well, just prior to our trip to Pebble Beach for the car events and elsewhere we did just that:

We pulled the distributor from our 83 and i turns out it goes right here:

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So we popped it in, reassembled the distributor and installed it on the engine. Timimg was still set so it was a doddle to line up at TDC.

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Then we turned our attention to the spark plug wires. The car is supposed to have a plastic tube to carry and support the wires but ours never had one. Fortunately we had picked up one in a parts haul a while back and now seemed the time to install it. This meant pulling the ends of each lead and pushing through it's a appropriate hole then reattaching the end. We used our old leads after testing them as the spare ones we showed you earlier proved not to be compatible.

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The carrier is attached to the valve cover screws with two plastic-clad metal brackets. We didn't have these and they are NLA but a trip to the hardware store produced something almost identical so we went with those.

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So now we have an ignition system:

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This week, schedule permitting, we'll start on the fuel inject system. Almost done!