Saturday, June 27, 2009

The belly of the beast




Well, now the interior is completely gutted and before I worry about putting it back together I am going to get this thing running. I would hate to waste my time making the interior nice to find the engine is toast. So to get an idea of how the V-shaped Audi V6 is a few pictures and of course a great description by yours truly. Up top is a picture of it, not mine, but you can get an idea. Up top is the intake manifold and the plastic covers cover the V shape for the most part. The crankshaft is in the bottom center and three cylinders go up on each side in a V shape, hence the V shaped designation. After you take off the intake manifold, you have access to the valve trains which are above each of the cylinders with an intake valve and an exhaust valve per cylinder. You may see in the two top pictures there are 6 valves on each valve train. On one, all 6 are bent. On the other at least 3 are bent, but I have not tried to turn the camshaft to see if the other 3 are bent as well.

This is at least a turning point in the engine repair process because it should be the last I have to take off of the car, next is replacing the valves and doing a minor rebuild job. But everything is being put back together from here on out.



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