I'm trying out the posting picture thing... these are from last week when I put my new clutch in all by myself.

No lift to work with here...

The real problem... almost down to the rivits. That the orginal clutch with 203,000 miles on it


Then the problem that occured just days before I took this apart


and what it did:

Yep, that's a nice grove cut almost all the way around... joy!
Then the other problem I'm curing with the new parts:

Gee, I never felt it slip. Flywheel looked the same, but because it couldn't be resurfaced I just scuffed it up.

Ok, time to see if these pic turn up on my thread

 

haha bricks, talk about a high tech lift ahah i use the same setup on my gravel driveway, it sucks. and damn that clutch is burnt, how long did it take you? because i deff glazed mine last time i went to the rally track.

 

Dam looks like a project good work!

 

Yayu, did mine on jackstands too.

 

haha that's a pretty ghetto-rigged lift set up you got goin' there. the cinderblock is a nice addition.
i love the color of your car though

 

Thanks for the nice replies guys. I started the project the previous Wednesday, spent from 1:30 to 7pm to get to the point where the trans was free from the engine but that'swhen I realized I didn't have the car high enough to get the tranny down and out of the way to work on the clutch. Next morning I started at about 8am, got out the trusty cinder blocks and raised the car a bit higher and removed the pp/c/fw so I could start installing the new parts. At 10am, when I saw the condition of the flywheel I began a hunt for someone to resurface it. That finally ended at 3pm when I was difinatetively told that the flywheel was not of a design that could be turned because of the moving parts inside. There is too great of a chance that metal shavings and fluid (from the cutting wheeel) would get trapped inside and cause grief down the road. Wasted half a day there, but spent the rest of it reinstalling the new parts and removing the cat and downpipe. My manual told me I need to remove them to take the clutch out but I found I didn't need too. Once I saw the condition of the bolts I figured this would be a good time to replace them incase I ever needed to change the exhaust of cat later on.

This brings up an insteresting question- how the hell are ya suppose to put the downpipe back in with the tranny installed? I found it to be impossible until I welded the nuts to the cat. There just didn't seem to be a way to reach both sides of the bolt/nut at the same timeto get them reassyembled. At the end of the second day I had the tranny mated back to the motor and that left me Friday to mess with the exhaust parts and getting them back together.

The most difficult part about the job (beside the exhaust) was the usual lining the transmission up with the motor by myself. If I had an extra set of hands it would have probably cut hours off my time. It's definately a two day job and maybe one day if you had all the right tools (like a lift) and an extra person to help line the tranny up.

I feel like I'm on my way to becoming a professional Audi mechanic. If you have any questions about this feel free to ask- I'd be glad to help.

 

Here, you deserve this....

 

nice job.. i'd be alil worried about letting cinder blocks hold up the car though.

 

yea, I was a little concerned about that too, but felt better than putting some blocks of wood under there. They're solid corner blocks though and I did have an extra set of jack stands under the car when ever I was under there. It's hard to tell in the pic but there was a hell of a slope too. The rear jack stands were only about 12" off the ground.

 

i would be concerend with the car sliding backwards