Project Audi A8
The new power steering pump failed and caused other issues to my son’s car so it went back in the garage. The worst part that failed as a consequence was the water pump, which is not super easy to get to and is driven by the timing belt.
Finished the car this weekend, finally, hopefully. We did quite a bit of work, but the power steering pump has been the worst because we’ve gotten 3 bum units… talk about bad luck. More like, cheap knock-offs.
This is after the timing belt and tensioners are back installed to spec. Music to my ears.
The Back-up Plan
My oldest got one A- last year. Based on our deal regarding grades, the earliest he can get a nice-r car for good grades is winter. Because of that he’s been working on our old Audi so that he has something to drive when his birthday rolls around. It has a leak in the coolant system and it needs a rebuilt abs module. I told him I’d pay for any parts if he wanted to fix it up a bit. However, I just checked in on him and found the car like this.
The coolant leak necessitated taking the front end apart, but now the story is well… since it’s taken apart we might as well replace this and that and this and that.
I don’t know if fixing everything was exactly what I had in mind when I said to fix it up, but pretty dang ambitious.