Bringing my TQS back to life!

[Gops]

Hi all!

Some of you may remember me from the 8L section where I had a Badger 5 S3 with 605bhp! Since then I've had a few BMW's and now im back to an Audi!

So why have I bought one?

Well, it was more for a father and son project with my dad. I bought Bill's old 1.8TQS which I planned to get fixed up (it wasnt in the best condition but for the money it was well worth buying) so thanks to bill for selling me the car!

So.. What happened to it? Well because its age the tensioner had crapped itself, so it was rattling like hell. So I decided to park it up and come up with a plan, which originally was to stroke it and gain as much power out of it as possible. this just felt so wrong. It's a rare and classic car which I feel needs restoring and appreciating for now. I may change my mind later and stroke it but for now, I want to restore its glory.

Its not in the best conditon, so the first job is to get the engine running, which I could just easily get a new tensioner and service it, but I want it to last long. So the engine is coming out and I'll send it over to bill for some rods and a general rebuild, a K04-015 and thats pretty much it! Why not bang in something crazy in? Well I just don't think its worth doing to such a rare car. Plus, I want to use this as my daily car so a little bit more power I can be happy with.. 200bhp plus would be nice enough for now.

 

[Gops]

 

[Gops]

Engine is out! Took me some time to get it out, couldn't get my 8mm allen key to bite on the balance rod on the gearbox and after much swearing and a few cries, I managed to get this out with the help from Mr J (dad). Next thing to do is pay Badger 5 a visit soon, bribe him with some samosa's and get this into him when he's not busy. I would rather things done right and well and bill's craftsmanship is worth every penny! Gearbox is being sent to Gas n gears for a refresh!

This isn't a fast build so we're taking our time with this.

 

[S3 Rav]

Looking forward to this one gops! Hopefully wont take you and mr j too long to get on it!

 

[Gops]

Looking forward to this one gops! Hopefully wont take you and mr j too long to get on it!

Thanks Rav! I’m going to remove the gearbox and send the engine down to Bill next week, the bores really need checking to make sure it’s okay, hoping not to spend big bucks rebuilding the engine, found a K04-015 for £120! Besides that the car actually looks very young underneath. I found a place to refurbish my AC compressor and my steering rack (be silly not to do this whilst the engine is out) and the inside just needs cleaning. Found a double din unit in the US with the Climate unit so I’ll be ordering that to put an apple CarPlay unit in the car.

 

[Sandra]

Good to see you back @Gops i will look forward to reading your progress. Enjoy the build with your dad.

 

[Homer Simpson]

Looks good so far Gops! I need to come down and see this one day!

 

[midas]

Not bad not bad, will be an interesting build. Wish I had the money and time to do this to mine. I agree though, these are modern day classics now, so be a shame to go doing irreversible mods etc.

 

[Gops]

I really haven't done much!! I've left it through winter and only just really started again!!

So I've managed to strip most off the engine to get it over to bill in the coming month, gearbox is ready for Gas n Gears, although they are very busy so i'm waiting for a response off them to get my box in.

The garage is a mess and full of spiders, so we spent more time trying to get that sorted and cleaned up. Alternator and AC pump are going off to a refurb company as well as the PAS rack.

Things to buy:

• Turbo
• Manifold
• Downpipe
• SMIC
• Some Coolant pipes
• Some boost pipes
• New engine mounts
• New gearbox mounts
• Starter motor
• flywheel
• clutch

I found some wiring that I'd like to repair and the interior is horrid and full of mould but for now, I'll send the parts away for refurb and hopefully get them back so I can start reassembling again.

 

[Gops]

So, I have some good updates on this car!

Engine will be going in with a new turbo and manifold. Spec of this engine was a shocker but glad that Bill and Alex sourced a stonker for me!!

Gearbox is off for a check over.

B5.5 Passat Wipers I have restored and they look sublime!

Headlining is out of the car. I tried to save it but couldn’t do so, so I’ve ordered some new material which I will retrim

Double din Centre console is now in, ready to go!

Refurbed cluster is in which is now calibrated and DIS works!

Headlights have been sent off to trups for Bi-LED conversions!

I found a milltek exhaust for it! Haha yes!!!!

I have a set budget on this car for now, but I’m hoping to get the engine and gearbox inside the car soon. It needs new pads and discs, the rest would be fine for now and can be done at a later stage.

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[midas]

Nice work, glad to know I’m not the only one throwing money at an old B5.

How hard is the headliner to get out with all the glass in?

 

[Gops]

Nice work, glad to know I’m not the only one throwing money at an old B5.

How hard is the headliner to get out with all the glass in?

Thanks bud! Everyone keeps asking me why I throw money at it, but I can’t help it! The headliner isn’t too bad to remove, front seats need to be down or out and the rears can just be pulled down. Then pull it out of the tailgate, try not to crease it too much but It will come out.

I also got rid of that spoiler!

It’s now a 1.9 tdi! Half tempted to keep the badges on! But S3 Rav has given some good advise to remove the badges. Will do it once I get it back from bills.

Gearbox is coming back to me with no issues or work required to it. Parts are impossible to buy so
It’s best just to keep it the way it is.

Headlining and a post trims will be retrimmed in black. I have however forgot about the sun visors.. will have a look at them to see what I can do with them.


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[Gops]

So, some good updates on this car. I managed to source a good engine that’s capable of many horses. For those who remember, it’s probably better spec than my S3’s engine was. However the tiny turbo I’m whacking on makes no odds to it at all. I’ve been thinking for ages to upgrade to a G25 but I cba just yet. Engine is down at B5 to which I need to send the whole car down. I was going to put it all in myself but my parents need this car out of the garden to start some building work at the house so, I have no choice but to bribe bill with food to help!

Before I send the car down I need to get things done on this car, so everything I took out needs to go back in:

Need to fix this wiring on the rear light

Sorted:

Then needed to sort out the window that didn’t go down. Checking the switches, I have 12V switched when using both switches. Took the regulator out and it seems that the motor doesn’t want to turn.

So ordered a new/used regulator and then felt the need to sort out the wiring. Audi have unprotected door harness’ for some reason (usually to bring down cost). It’s not inlined anywhere obvious so I could only use the anti-abrasive tape so far as my fat hand would let me:

Get the junctions sorted first

Full AB tape with anti rattle tape on the door card breakouts.

Now I wasn’t happy with how Audi routed this harness right past the spring under the regulator, it clashes hard against the spring, which is a big no no. There should be a 6mm static clearance from the spring or 19mm dynamic clearance from rotating parts. This instance, both parts do not have a dynamic envelope around it, so I drilled a hole in black metal frame and attached a T-on clip. Then routed it back to the second hole but only half taped the T-on clip to reduce the stress on the harness:

Now that’s better and I can sleep at night! I needed to sort out the seats. Rears and fronts in and cleaned again.

With merky water!

I also sorted and painted the corners (not like Midas but just enough so that the new wheels look
Good)


Rear before

Rear during

Rear after

Followed this on for all corners

Also cleaned the gearbox

After:

It’s pretty much ready, just needs the stuff sorted to take up to B5. Hoping to sort it out this week for a Saturday departure over there if Bill has space. We’re getting there slowly!

Happy Sunday all!
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[Gops]

Wheels have come back!

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[Sandra]

Wheels looking good @Gops

 

[Mr Mohammed Janjua]

Very nice

 

[Mr Mohammed Janjua]

I bought mine back in July, still trying to get it ULEZ Complaint.

 

[Gops]

Cars been dropped off to B5! Bill is super busy so it’ll be there a while, but for now it’s time to wait and focus on my house.

I did find a bonnet and two front wings for the car but I’ll get them swapped out when I get it back!

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[midas]

Those wheels look awesome, really inspiring me to get my own redone.
What’s it having done?

 

[Gops]

It's just having its engine back in, hopefully I can head up to B5 this weekend to fuel the B5 team with Samosas again

 

[S3 Rav]

Good work gops!! Looking forward to seeing this in the flesh!

Love the wheels btw!!

 

[Gops]

Gooding of the evenings all!

I hope everyone is doing well!

For those who do not know, I’ve got the car back off Bill! He’s managed to get the engine done, honestly it looks amazing, can’t thank him enough for that!

So why did I get the car back? Well truly because it would of just racked a massive bill to get sorted, as things weren’t exactly straight forward since parts were all over the place, it’s hard for B5 and his team to piece it all together. So Bill gave me the option of taking it back and doing it, perfect since my dad has just built his garage and it’s all ready to take back. Thankfully it arrived back and is now sitting pretty in the garage:

I’ve since bought some taller axle stands, a better battery charger and some parts to fix the compressor so I can start tackling the little jobs… first up was fitting the parts to the gearbox

The slave cylinder was broken so I changed that

Next was to take out the rear diff, as that’s leaking like anything. Whacking that thing out was a pain, the bolts were just old and seized, but luckily we have enough height and space (and patience) to get it out, drop the diff ready to have those seals changed

Next thing to do is get some fixings from audi. Most of the fixings don’t have a zinc nickel coating which should give 1000hrs of salt spray before corrosion, and since most of these bolts are below the “wade line” they’d need to ensure proper coatings. That said, whatever Audi have released onto this car to use should have these coatings on. I’ll ask to see if they do tomorrow when I go down. Also need to order a centre prop shaft bearing as that’s seen better days!

Next stop - fix diff and put it back in! I was also going to do the Milltek exhaust but I’m missing the centre section and I can’t actually remember if I ever had one, so I may need to get one made.


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[S3 Rav]

Nice nice Gops..can't wait to see the progress on this.

 

[Gops]

Thanks Rav! Did a few more bits tonight and gathering parts from Audi as well..

Rear diff was cleaned up ready to get the seals. The seals were available from Audi as they use it on Lamborghini diffs also! So let’s get going.

The coupling was a 6mm hex bolt that came out pretty easy with the impacter to reveal the seal:

Loads of grit and crap seems to be in the passage way so I cleaned it all up ready for me dad to pop the seals back in:

And done!

Repeated it for the other side as well which was filthy! Sadly forgot to take after pics of that side but it’s literally the same as the other side.

Sorted!! Just need to clean up more of the grease and grime off the diff body itself. Whilst doing so, I started to look at the prop shaft to see what the centre bearing looked like.. as per usual it was *****:

I really didn’t want to do this, But I have no choice. There is a dark side development where I can pop
It over the bearing, but the bearing sounds like an old sliding wardrobe, so rough and horrid. So I have no choice but to remove it and refit with a new one. I’m just going for a normal bearing off Autodoc. I will document the process but there is a really good YouTube video that shows it’s to the T. It doesn’t end there I’m afraid, the prop shaft CV joints are dented and horrible. I know we did this as when we tried to tie up the shaft to send to B5 we tied it up with some rope that got so tangled and ruined it! There are no options that I can see that are direct serviceable parts… until I found this thread :

Propeller Shaft End CV-Joints - Look here - AudiWorld Forums

A4 (B5 Platform) Discussion - Propeller Shaft End CV-Joints - Look here - Nowhere are those to find, and one only finds CV-joints for the transverse driving shafts to the wheels on Quattro. The inner CV-joints, transmission side, are all the same all wheels all years as far as I know. The outer...

www.audiworld.com

The seems to be a replacement being used which is the Meyle 214 498 0033. These are on Autodoc for £30 each. I’ll have to get these done, it doesn’t feel right getting the car done so I’ll be getting this sorted. I’ll also get the driveshaft balanced afterwards… so more work to do! I’ve also identified the right fixings for the exhaust which is good.

Next stop is to go to B5 tomorrow morning, then finish off the rear diff and get that back onto the car. Then I’ll get onto this prop!

More to come!


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[Gops]

Evening all!

Tough little day today! Managed to get the milltek sorted!

Thankfully that’s ready to go. Been working on filling the diff with oil but obviously with 25 years of life being on that nut, it wouldn’t budge. So used some Asian persuasion and managed to get it open

I’ve ordered 2 new nuts off the net so that’ll replace these. Drained the oil as well:

Looks lovely! Haha. Whilst that’s on the side I also tried to drain the gearbox but I didn’t have the special 1/2” so I’ve ordered that and also another 2 of the drain plugs incase they also need a telling off.

So whilst that’s on the side, we started to take off the centre bearing

My dad pretending to work!

It wasn’t actually that bad. It came out pretty okay. Just need to get the parts to reassemble the whole prop and get it over to Dave Mac propshafts in Coventry for a balance and paint!

So on the order list:

- centre bearing
- x2 drain plugs for transmission
- x2 drain plugs for diff
- cv joints for prop
- new radiator

When they arrive I’ll get onto to dealing with refitting everything! Hope everyone is having a good weekend!


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[mojocvh]

EPIC!

 

[Sandra]

Amazing work as always @Gops