What did you end up getting at the "Road Sale"?
I've had mixed luck at yard sales.... a few times I find something, but at this point, I have such small (or targeted) needs that mostly the yard sale is a waste of time. It's more of just watching other people unload household junk.... (helpful if you are just starting off, but I what I need...)
Hopefully the exhaust works proceeds along....
I got a few books, a croquet set and not much else. I can't claim to never get good stuff, i've gotten machine tools in this sale before (My 7" atlas shaper) along with lots of other tools, my main motorcycle jacket and on and on. It's hit or miss.
I need to catch you guys up. The exhaust work is tabled for a minute, my Audi is on the lift, getting a lot of work done, since it won't start anymore. Starter is bad.
I started working on pulling that and made some mental notes on how much needs to be done to make this car right, and changed direction a bit.
The list of things to do on it:
Starter
Clutch / flywheel
Timing belt
Front brakes
CV boots are both torn
Downpipes are rotted/Cats are dead
Full exhaust
Shifter repair kit
Many of these items require the same parts to remove, so i'd be pulling things multiple times to do these jobs sequentially.
So i decided to just drop the whole engine/trans and do everything at once.
With that said, i can't keep asking the kids to not have their cars, so i came up with bandaids to get them on the road while i work on my stuff.
I am building stubby header mufflers for the kid's truck, so it's not NASCAR loud, just sorta loud. I can build the full exhaust later and he gets his truck back. The Daughter's audi, since it's getting a new exhaust anyway, i'm cutting out the offending bellows and scabbing in a short section of rigid pipe and clamping it. So she can run around and we know it'll be short term. Both of these items can happen by this weekend.
My truck, i got back on the road with a bandaid fix last week, and i have the wife's car for now, and she'll drive my truck for her few days she needs it.
I have a big project at work that i am nearing completion on, and i plan to take at least a weeks' vacation once that completes and i will be working on the Audi for a lot of that probably. I've heard you can drop the whole drivetrain in as few as 4 hrs, not sure that's true or not, but since i have SO much work to do on it, i think the time to do all these jobs will be a lot easier if everything is out on a cart. As far as a cart to support 1000lbs or so, i think i'm going to build it out of some pallet rack stuff i have sitting around. Should be more than stout enough. I do have to pickup some good casters to pull it out from under the car though.
I know it sounds like a lot of work, but it's the way we do the cars at work and it seems to work pretty well. And i have the lift, so might as well not fight it.
