So I'm about to tear into my car after it's been sitting in the driveway for the last 9 or so months to do the wheel bearings, control arms, and brakes... First thing I want to do is change the oil because it was long over due when I drove it last. I also removed the plugs and squirted a little oil in there incase some corrosion formed around the piston walls/rings... Anyways... When I removed belly pan, there appeared to be a cut-out or hole that I don't remember being there!



About 3 seconds later this fell out- almost into my mouth...



Doesn't appear to be any chewed wires or anything... I had a feeling I'd find a critter stashed away under the hood when I finally got around to all this... Sort of funny to see it laying there in a cluster of little acorns... As if it ate itself to death.. haha. Little fvcker.

The saturated belly pan is from at least 5 years of a slow oil pan drip.

 

Thats one of the greater stowaway stories Ive read.


I had a customer come in to work with a whole salmon hiding between block and intake manifold. Didn't get there by itself but was sure funny as hell to find.

 

Lmao!

 

bwahahahahah xD

 

So I just spent the last 9 hours removing my control arms........... Lets be clear, I am a handy **** with all (most) the necessary tools, etc. I spent almost half that time dealing with the pinch bolts... PB, heat, 4lb sledge, air hammer, rinse and repeat... They didn't come out. So I removed the uprights (knuckle, I guess) with the upper arms still attached to the shock assembly. My neighbor is going to take them to his shop and cut/drill/press them out for me. He's also going to pull/press in my new wheel bearings in exhcange for the old aluminum scrapped arms/parts. The ABS sensors also refused to come out, and I didn't want to damage them in the process, so I just disconnected them from inside the wheel well.. The passanger side tie rod pinch bolt was also stupid, but finaly came out. I'd say this was a more challenging job than when I R/R the trans on the 97. Stupid. If my neighbors didn't know I was foul mouthed before, they certainly know now. i think that Fvckin squirl currsed my damn car!

 

dude that squirrel **** had me laughing for a solid 5 minutes hahaha, the picture was absolutely hilarious. and that salmon thing can happen, we saran wrapped a trout to the bottom of my buddy's exhaust once. when we told him about it and had him look, he must have hit a bump cuz that fish was fcked up hahah

 

Haha!

Awesome story! Glad you're back with us and working on the Audi again.

 

...........I'm speechless. This is epic

 

He was protecting his nut's lol

 

When I saw the hole I instantly thought a little animal did it, but then I said "nah, probably not"

Scrolled down.

Lol'd.