Been a hell of a two weeks for me. Last week I replaced the timing chains in a friends VR6 Jetta. That means the transmission has to be pulled since the chains are on the backside of the motor. Some of you may remember that I did this to my Jetta when my lower timing chain broke.
However, this time it was to keep him from having to replace valves like I did. So along with new chains & chain guides, we replaced the pass side output shaft seal, the clutch and the drivers side CV axle. We started on Wed night, worked for 2 hours, same on Thursday and then after I got home from work on Friday, we got to work on it again at 2pm. Wed & thurs were just breaking things down. By 10pm Friday night, the car was on the ground and running. Did some body work to it on Saturday and he drove it home on Sunday. Over the weekend I also did some work to my lawn tractor.
Today, I finally got my valve cover gaskets replaced on the A6. Also changed the rear cam plugs (easy to do, but hard to see). While I was doing that, Cristine took all the plastic engine covers and detailed the snot out of them. Then after I got everything back together, she wen to down on the underside of the hood and the rest of the engine bay. Then we did an oil change in the Beetle. A nice solid 5 hours of car work today. BTW, valve cover gaskets on a 2.7T motor is pretty simple, it's the hours of tearing all manner of crap out of your way that takes so damn long.
End result is that my A6 no longer smells like an oil burning furnace while it's running. I'm very happy about that. Tomorrow I hope to get to a few things on Cristine's Scirocco. If all goes well, I might actually get to work on the cabby and my scirocco before the winter gets here.
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