Re: Replacing CV boot and FI Line?

[Dave Head <dhead@sundial.sundial.net>]

At 10:17 AM 3/1/96 EDT, you wrote:
>Spent part of the weekend crawling around and under the 5KQ and found a few
>things to fix. In particular, the left front outside CV boot is split and the 
>No. 1 fuel injection line appears to be leaking. 
>
>My question(s) is "How hard is it to repair these two items?" My Haynes manual
>has nothing on the FI line and makes the CV boot repair look like a half day
>job for someone of my mechnical bent. Anyone come up with some "quick and easy"
>procedures for either job.

I would go to a junkyard and pull a new line off one.  You are supposed to
replace the washers each time, but I've never had a reused one leak.  The
injector pops out with a firm tug.

The CV isn't really that hard either. Loosen the outer nut on the wheel
before jacking up (book sez replace this too - never did on my 79 5KS and it
was going strong @ 235K - after several times taking it off...). Drop the
sway bar, loosen the outer control arm nut and remove bolt, or jack it up,
play with it and remove bolt. Take wheel off, take nut off, lever down and
pop out lower control arm. Pull on bottom of the strut and axle should pop
out.  There is a circlip under boot.  Spread it with a large screwdriver and
whack the CV - it should pop right off.  Easier to pull the whole axle - you
need one of those metric star-like thingies for those six bolts. The book
sez use locktight on the splines to put it back together (I never have).
Only real live precaution is don't load the wheel/strut without the axle -
it trashes the wheel bearing.  Now all the real Audi purists are sucking in
their collective breaths and hissing...  Oh well...  I guess I'm an Audi
realist!
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EMCM(SW) Dave Head
87 5KCSTQ 170K miles and counting...
1.8 bar boost - @ 1.3 the shuttle launches
Maitland FL
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