Failures, more failures, and half successes.
So decided to have a go at replacing the CV boot myself last week. Things did nit go well.
Unfortunately i didnt take any pics i just didnt have the heart for it. I managed to get everything dissassembled fine, but my first f*ckup was trying to do it in place on the car. Because when it came time to seperate the CV joint. That f*cker would not move, after an hour or so if trying to use the bolt to pushbit out, and hitting it with a hammer i finally got it apart, and of course everything went fine untill it came time to get them back together again, i dont know if im just being soft, but after another half an hour of trying to get the two halves back together i resorted to smacking it with a big f*ck off hammer untill it went into place. Then came tightening the clamps, and the cheap tool i bought was f*cking useless. Blah blah blah.
Long story short at about 1am i finally had it back together, but now i need a new axle bolt because thenone i had stripped in the process of getting the cv joint back together, hopefully im not going to have to replace the hole joint, but for now its holding together so will see.
Then today i had the good idea to remove the noise pipe from the car as i dont see the point in it, and its just taking up space in the engine bay.
In preperation for this i did some research and found that other tfsi vag cars dont have the noise pipe, so i ordered an intake pipe from an audi a3.
Here is the twonintake pipes next to one another, as you can see the audibone doesnt have the extra exit towards the top, unfortunately you can probably se that the rest of the pipes arent an exact match either, the brackets dont line up and the angle of the top is a few degrees off.
But not to be put of i removed the brackets from the new pipe and after some messing about, and replacing the pipe from thenintercooler with another one i had bought from an audi just in case. I ended up with something that should work.
Engine bay before:
Engine bay after
And what was removed or replaced:
The failiure here was that when i dug about behind the firewall to remove the rest of the noise maker it looks like someone had already been in there and blocked te pipe off with a nylon bung
so all my hard work was for little difference outside of cleaning up the engine bay and a couple hundred grams of weight reduction lol.
Anyway, its good to make progress even i its two steps forward one step back.