"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
08/06/2019 at 16:01 • Filed to: None
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"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
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I t also prevents you from removing your control arm.
After lifting the engine as high as I could without fear of breaking a mount, I barely managed to muscle it out just far enough.
Something something damn engineers
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> Alfalfa
08/06/2019 at 16:20 |
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Remember... it fit in CAD.
Ash78, voting early and often
> Alfalfa
08/06/2019 at 16:24 |
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This is exactly how I remember my Passat going down. I had to loosen the subframe mounts and lift the whole front end just enough to make it clear the bolts. Hooray for subassemblies coming from separate production lines!
The funny thing was you could reinstall the bolt
in reverse
and everything would work just fine, no need to move things. But nobody thought of that.
Engineers have contempt for mechanics, either consciously or unconsciously.
SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
> Alfalfa
08/06/2019 at 16:25 |
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P A C K A G I N G
jimz
> Alfalfa
08/06/2019 at 16:34 |
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at first I thought you were bitching about trying to remove the compressor, then I read the whole thing. yeah, control arm bushings are more frequently replaced than compressors. That was kinda dumb.
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Alfalfa
08/06/2019 at 16:50 |
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I wonder if that was a production d’oh where it didn’t matter on the line, but would be more serviceable had the nut and bolt been in stalled the other direction? As a wrench turner, it might be quicker/easier/safer to just move the compressor out of the way. Slip the serpentine belt off, remove the mounting bolts for the compressor and position it out of the way.
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Alfalfa
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
08/06/2019 at 17:17 |
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That was the plan if I couldn’t get it out otherwise. It would have been either that or loosen engine mounts.
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Alfalfa
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/06/2019 at 17:18 |
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I think it always starts unconsciously, then becomes conscientious after enough bitching from mechanics and/or production workers
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Alfalfa
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
08/06/2019 at 17:19 |
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Yeah, they probably put the engine in last...
66P1800inpieces
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/06/2019 at 18:16 |
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My experience with VW is that all those bolts, subframe control arm, dogbone, etc are torque to yield so moving just the subframe is $30 in bolts.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> 66P1800inpieces
08/07/2019 at 08:35 |
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Yep, color coded by the Loctite applied to the threads, IIRC. Lots of one-time-use stretch bolts. Thankfully most aftermarket control arm kits gave you everything you needed.
Doing the job at the dealer was astronomically expensive. It’s not wonder VW decided not to use multilink suspensions very much past that point.
Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair)
> Alfalfa
08/07/2019 at 20:40 |
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I blame Ford, the Mazda overlords at the time. I'm sure they played some evil part in that decision.