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924RACR · Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject: major 2.5L overhaul yesterday

Long day, 10 hrs (including BS'ing), but she's all done now... new belts, new seals, new water pump and t-stat, oil cooler seals, and such.

Gee, these engines really are smooth - when you time the balance shafts properly! They were more than one tooth off! Arrgh.

I was pretty happy with the tensioning procedure, went pretty smoothly IMO.

The oil cooler seals were a bitch - had to install the oil cooler 3 times before I got everything lined up properly. Glad I did it though; when I went in there, I found it was already leaking coolant, as it turned out. Needed it done, I just wasn't aware of it.

Still, as nice as it runs, I'm glad I won't have to do that too often!

Also put new sunroof gears in - sure nice to have that roof to pop open in the summer! Major improvement over the 2.0L cars with the manual sunroof, much better airflow...
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Paul · Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the joys of the S!

You will be surprised how quickly 3 years will go by and you will get to start all over.....

I'm facing that now...
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Slam · Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:28 pm Post subject:

Yeah...I got pretty good at R&Ring my 944's oil cooler last summer...

The engines in these cars are so much more refined than the Audi units, but I have days when I like the 924s simplicity.
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