AAZ Bluestar with flipped Audi box

It is probably the gearbox Mike. They tend to be a bit grabby from 3rd to 4th, also its hard to get the oil level right without it spewing oil everywhere unless you get the breather setup right.

Mine has a slight notchyness to it, more so from 1-2-3 and smoother from 3-4-5. I too put that down to the resistance on the selector shaft before it gives and pops into gear.

If you pop the back/forth cable off at the gearbox and move the shaft by hand you feel that 'notch'. Fine tuning on mine was just to get the selector centred as 1st/2nd was too low to the left and to get the fore-aft throw positioned nicer.

Not cheap for the kit but it's got the van working again, got us away on holiday and now means I can use it to crack on with clearing and renovating the house. Too many bloody projects!

Edited by GavB95 - 23 Feb 15 at 20:39

Bit of an update... I've been running the cable shifter with no issues other than one cable persisting to pop off the ball joint on the gearbox, it's now secured with a wire and has been fine since. The change is good and looks wise it is growing on me.

I've finally got round to fitting the front Avo springs and bilstein dampers, I ended up cutting a ballpoint off as the hex bolts were knackered and the hex on the bottom of the ballpoint was rounded do I couldn't split it that way.



I made a quick trip over to the lads at Brickwerks on Friday (thanks for the stickers and key ring) and picked up a new balljoint and a few other odds and sods and now it's back on the road and driving sweetly. I put new rubber ARB inner mounts and poly lower drop link bushes on whilst I was there and it's now much better in the wind. I'll go for poly upper drop link and arb inner mounts when funds allow.

New 70mm lower ride height on 14s...


Next plan is to swap the tyres from the steelies to the Carat alloys and get the tracking checked and sorted soon too, so that might be a trip back to Simon for some magic working on it.

I've got her booked in for a repaint on the front end next week so it will hopefully look a bit fresher once that's done. I picked up a new BLUESTAR decal from Brickwerks to go on after the paint, I just need to decide if I should fit a hirschmann aerial in the a pillar whilst it's in for paint.

Edited by GavB95 - 13 Apr 15 at 21:18

does look good on the porkies! 

They looked good but the roads round here are shit and with 70mm drop it was a bit too bumpy/crashy. The balloon tyres on the 14s compensate for the drop. 

plus the DIY high top looks shit

Hi Gav, how's it going ?. Did the clutch pipe hold up ok. What wheels are you running now.
I've put the empis on mine but not sure if I like them. Fancy some banded steels. But it's all money again.
Barry

Hi Gav, still messing with the inside of mine, 70% done, but need get finished by end of month as it's entered in Tatton park for show and shine
Still not sure about my wheels, fancy banded steels .
Do these vans ever get finished ?

We warned!, After spending some hours changing a rear wheel bearing when I assembled it it was no better!..  So i didn't bother with the other side.  They where and still are smooth running, not lumpy just looser than you'd expect from a POST WW2 vehicle.  The replacement bearings where proper BW's ones so not Shite.   Yes you need a very long braker bar+ scaffold bar and a massive socket :) to release them.  Much easier if the wheels on and the vans on the ground..... Doing them up my torque wrench was not man enough so I simply calculated at what distance in needed to stand along the scaffold bar and gave it a little more.   I forget the figures but 500 Nm rings a bell... Lets say its 500 Nm and forgive me is that figure is wrong.   That means 500 newtons for force 1 meter from the pivot point... I weight 86 KG *9.81 = 844 N so i need to stand 500/ 844 Meter ~ 600mm from the pivot.    You'll do more damage if you under torque the bearings as it allows stuff to move about so its better to give it a little extra 

Edited by Scimdiesel - 26 Nov 15 at 16:19

I did my wheel alignment temporaryly at home when i did my bushes used a angle gauge for the camber and tape measure for the tracking. I never got round to going to a garage that was a couple of years ago. Tyres wearing evenly and drive spot on