Lol I think any of us who have considered a V8 S4 know to be scared of that pic!

 

I peed my pants a little just looking at the picture. Is that an Audi V8 with timing chains?

 

Yeah. My pics are the BMW M62TU and bshusted's pic is the cam chain setup on the Audi 4.2L engine. Incidentally, the reason he said that's worse is that's the back of the engine. On our A4s (and on my 540) we can change CCTs by pulling the valve covers. On the 4.2 the engine has to be removed.

 

I think Audi did the same thing on the 3.2 too didn't they? Put it all on the back of the motor cause we all know timing chains never go bad...

I just did the Subaru H 3.0 timing chain job a couple months ago. I pulled the motor, that thing is awful to work on with the opposing cylinders.

 

I have one of those 3.0L Subaru engines in my wife's outback. How many miles were on it when you pulled it to do the timing chains?

 

It's a flipper I bought. It had a bad water pump, but by the time you get in there you might as well replace any chain guides that look bad. If you've looked at the bolt tightening sequence it gets pretty intimidating. They don't use gaskets in the covers, just RTV. There's a front and a rear cover. Between he two of them, I think I counted over 80 bolts, all have to be torqued in sequence.

 

Holy crap that's a long procedure, doing that many in sequence. My 300ZX used RTV for most mating surfaces rather than gaskets but I never dealt with anywhere near that many bolts.

 

Got low low low low low, more in my update thread, link in my signature.

 

Yeah well have come to find out the bottom AC tensioner needs to be replaced.....one part at a time lol. I however almost ripped my front bumper off stopping in the 7-11 yesterday. Well fun times oh and just hit 170K on my 98 still strong this AEB is(in my yoda voice)

 

Over the weekend I did two things:
1) Revamped my AWM's breather/PCV system with an 034 Vortex catch can.
2) Pulled the diff and installed 4:1 diff mod washers, and changed the transmission fluid (new fluid is Motul Gear 300).

Details:
1) Line going from PRV valve in TIP has a tee; one end of the tee attaches to the PCV valve (PCV valve has a line going to the intake manifold); other end of the tee goes to the top port of the catch can.
Then I'm using 034's silicone AWM breather hose, which connects to the valve cover (with 90 degree coupler), and the port where a PCV valve normally goes, there is a line going to the side port on the catch can.

What's the point of this? In effect I'm using all stock components from the PCV/breather system, but the catch can is able to collect ALL contaminants before they enter the intake system (in theory).

2) This was a fun one. I managed to let the center gear stack in the differential slide out, so I couldn't keep track of its orientation. Then I spent ~3 hours figuring out how everything would fit since all of the gears will only fit one way. In the end I succeeded but staying up until 2am doing that wasn't so much fun.