Birchall
Dick Chown Award 2016
Hi
I need sone help from people who have successfully completed this conversion, please!!!!
I bought an axle from a 1.6 FSI and bought new parts for everything. (And I mean everything.)
My mechanic was about to rebuild the axle but is telling me that most of the parts I bought don't fit !!!
it looks like my assumption has cost me big time again.
That at assumpyion was that I thought a TDI 90 and a 1.6 FSI rear axle would be the same. Why on earth would Audi come up with two different axles with discs??
but it looks like they did?
For example the main rubber mounting bushes don't fit, the brake pipes (the metal ones) don't fit, etc etc.
Can anyone tell me the facts about the differences between the TDI 90 axle and the FSI axle.
Since i didn't have a reg number to quote when ordering the parts (not for the donor axle) I used my wife's car reg since hers is a 90. That seems to be my mistake.
I am now tempted to look for a TDI 90 so that I can use the parts I bought rather than having to buy new replacements suited to the axle.
I guess that it just proves the saying I always use. That is that it is dangerous to ASSUME, because it makes an ASS out of U and ME !!
Steve B
I need sone help from people who have successfully completed this conversion, please!!!!
I bought an axle from a 1.6 FSI and bought new parts for everything. (And I mean everything.)
My mechanic was about to rebuild the axle but is telling me that most of the parts I bought don't fit !!!
it looks like my assumption has cost me big time again.
That at assumpyion was that I thought a TDI 90 and a 1.6 FSI rear axle would be the same. Why on earth would Audi come up with two different axles with discs??
but it looks like they did?
For example the main rubber mounting bushes don't fit, the brake pipes (the metal ones) don't fit, etc etc.
Can anyone tell me the facts about the differences between the TDI 90 axle and the FSI axle.
Since i didn't have a reg number to quote when ordering the parts (not for the donor axle) I used my wife's car reg since hers is a 90. That seems to be my mistake.
I am now tempted to look for a TDI 90 so that I can use the parts I bought rather than having to buy new replacements suited to the axle.
I guess that it just proves the saying I always use. That is that it is dangerous to ASSUME, because it makes an ASS out of U and ME !!
Steve B