Thanks for the heads up on advance auto, theres one 2 miles from my barn. $199 for a 2 ton folding engine crane!

 

yep.. and it works perfectly with our 2.7 t...

id go ahead and get the balancer/weight loader thingy as well.. sry.. drinkin and cant think of proper terminology..

 

Ya i bought a load leveler a few months ago, just didnt want to spend the couple hundred on the engine crane, but im better off now that i did.

Motors out, turbos are off, A/C is disposed of. Almost 2 AM and im beat... Im probably going to have a few questions for you at some point haha

 

whatever you need brother.. ill have some video of some pulls on sometime today maybe...an ill try and get a fly by...

 

Looks good man. Glad to hear there are a couple of other garage weekend warriors here. Seems like everyone has access to a lift and a shop. Me, just like you and ern mentioned, jackstands and crane from advance auto

I'll be taking the DIY K04 plunge in the near future, I'll have some questions for you

 

Well right now the motor is out just chilling, need to figure out my transmission rebuild. Im going on vacation in august so ill probably put it back together the last couple weeks of august.

As for resources i used, i found an official AUDI motor pull video, used M3toS4's writeup on audizine, found another write up, and a word document writeup with pictures. That was more than enough to get it out, it was all pretty straight forward. I can dig up the links if anyone is interested in bookmarking them for future use. We really took our time and labeled everything. The use of air tools made things so fast. I feel like if i do it 2 more times ill be able to do it in half the time or less.

 

i know.. i thought the same thing after my build.. i could go through it like army ants.. probably have the engine out in like 4 hrs.. and i didnt jank the tranny.. i wonder if its easier that way. .

 

Yes yes please post those links!!!

Josh

 

We seriously took our time, lots and lots of breaks to chat with people stopping by. Checking and rechecking the guides. My buddy smoking cigarettes, getting coffee... Now i feel like i could just do one thing after another... I had some issues getting the transmission past the CV's, the tranny mounts were getting hung up on them, definitly the hardest part for me, ended up taking the transmission mounts off as we pulled it out a couple inches. You also avoided the trouble of unhooking the slave...


M3 to S4's writeup
m3 to s4 writeup
Mikes motor pull cliff notes
http://forums.audiworld.com/showthre...577529#2187139
Video courtesy of RAM@S4-MTM -
http://forums.audiworld.com/showpost...0&postcount=39
A PDF of the .doc i got
http://www.vaglinks.com/Docs/Audi/B5...cement_DIY.pdf

 

Thx for the links. They'll come in handy.

Are you doing the tranny rebuild yourself? Or are you taking the kit + tranny to a shop?