by Mark Kelley | Nov 11, 2016 | Audi, Cars, News
This is a post mainly for my North American friends. I love a quattro, so when I saw this A4 B5 (1998) 1.9TDi Quattro Avant, I picked it up. Maybe nothing special in the UK (although trying to find a replacement gearbox for it tells me they weren’t plentiful),...
by Mark Kelley | Oct 23, 2016 | Audi 80, Cars, News
All gaskets are not created equal. I’ve been battling an oil leak of the left bank of the 2.7 twin-turbo. It took me a while to track it down as there were a few oil leaks in the vicinity (one was coming from a stress crack in the valve cover itself from a...
by Mark Kelley | Oct 21, 2016 | Audi, Audi 80, Cars, News
Had time to fit a short shift kit to the Audi tonight. I changed a few things on the kit I didn’t like to make it stiffer and it’s now also harder to get the car into reverse accidentally. I was having trouble downshifting from 3rd to 2nd with confidence...