Convertion of Audi From Automatic to Manual

Bell Yestu1965 · Monday, March 28, 2022

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Torque specs for the next steps (they may differ depending on your setup)
-FW-60ft lbs (non stretch bolts)
-Pressure level plate- 14ft lbs
-Transmission bracket- 30ft lbs
-Bleed plug 26ft lbs
-Fill plug 18ft lbs
-Transmission mount eye bolt-30ft lb
-Trans mountain side bolts (2)-17 ft lb

Showtime thing I did was commodities downward the Flywheel, using not-stretch bolts with loctite they were torqued downwardly equally well every bit the pressure plate afterwards. Tighten these bolts slowly, snug first and and so go in a star pattern to bolt them down. I used a commodities and chain and a screwdriver wedged inbetween by cake.

With the transmission trans nevertheless out, I drained it keeping the transmission level using another jack on the dorsum, I likewise swapped the throwout bearing at this time and lightly gave information technology some grease (moving-picture show from a4mods.com) I poured in 1/4 quart of Heavy Shockproof and filled the rest 2qts+ with Redline MT90. Torque down the drain/fill plugs. At this point, manual is on the jack and set to go in!

Line upwards the manual equally close equally y'all can without hitting the pressure plate fingers and slowly become the input shaft in. I used bolts to guide the trans into the right angle and direction. In one case you get close plenty, put some bolts on and start tightening them around evenly then the transmission mates upwards to the block. This diagram should help you out.

Once the manual is in, you can start to enhance the subframe support, and commodities downward the transmission mounts starting at the outer 2 ones. I would permit your transmission to have all its weight downwards when your torque things down. Around the same time, mountain upwards the subframe brackets and bolt them down. It helps to have a friend/jack hold the subframe upward while you tighten bolts down. Subsequently yous do this, put the lower control arm dorsum in.

At present its time for CV joints- driveshaft, front axles. I tried to torque down my driveshaft, but one of my bolts just stripped when I tried. Call up to wipe out the sometime grease and put in the new CV grease. On the center driveshaft bolts, remember that they take to be in the same EXACT spot! Around the same time, get the shifter linkage in. It volition be tough getting the allen primal into the linkage, it will just have some time. Shifter linkage, I believe its a 10mm commodities.

I was lucky enough to have a pressure bleeder and I bled the lines in this order- Pass R, Driver R, Pass F, Driver F, slave cylinder. one liter of fluid was plenty for me.

Transmission in!!

When you go to bolt in the starter bolts, MAKE SURE you practice information technology on the right post. The 2 bigger positive cables MUST proceed the 13mm mail that has the plastic spacer behind information technology.
Do NOT, DO NOT put those wires on the posts that accept the 8mm post. Adhere the spade connector wire as well. I learned the hard way when I went to put my battery on that you should not practice this. My positive battery cable caught burn down in three places and well, burned through all of the insulation. Information technology didnt practice any other damage than that so I just wrapped everything in electric tape. Luckily the water hose wasnt too far off but there was smoke everywhere, I near idea I was going to lose my car and my girlfriends house.

Here is the park relay you have to modify. Information technology is located under the dash correct above your 75x posts. You must remove the relay on spot #13, and jump the wires with spade connectors with a wire soldered inbetween on the horizontal spots. Your relay may non be numbered 53, but it must be in spot #xiii. Yous also need to pull the TCU computer out. Its located in front of the passenger seat under the carpeting. Have off 1 panel held on by phillips and and then pop the side bottom trim off with a flathead. Youll have to lift the carpet upward, remove the box and remove the TCU.

Frazzle dorsum on, intake, upper control arms lower the car, torque downwards wheels, set to get! When you go to put the battery cable back on, be sure to sentinel information technology carefully and be prepare to remove it in case anything starts smoking or called-for, if I had reacted quicker the fire may non have started.

Machine all together and one happy camper!

All in all, the swap was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. The worst part was only getting the auto trans out and even that wasnt too bad. On the initial startup everything seemed fine. Yous wont have a clutch pedal sensor and then just brand certain you lot dont first the car in offset without your foot on the clutch alee of time. My automobile ran on both automobile and manual coding for the ECU, you shouldnt get codes once y'all have it on manual. The website that helped the most was the DIY (posted on summit) on A4mods.com for the clutch install. Information technology took me from Friday to Tuesday, with cypher washed on the weekends considering I did not have a bracket, only to give yous an thought of the time frame.

Id like to give thanks all of the people that came through and helped out, Eric (eakrob), Aaron (aaronamerica), Evan, Brian, Josh, Paul (PZ.) and Tom (VRSIX) for tools/equipment, last but NO WHERE near least goes to Tim (werewolves) for helping me out when I was freaking out/stuck and when my car was on fire! The people that helped make this whole operation possible and that I cannot thank plenty is my girlfriend Carly and her parents for letting me use their garage for the past couple of days!

*I remember everything is generally there, if there is whatsoever info that is very useful I volition update this as needed.

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Before/After

Earlier:
Well leading upward to the build I was pretty worried that this was going to be a huge chore. Many people gave me that doubted "good luck", which but made me worry a little more. Another concern I had was grinding the crank down, thats a pretty important piece to mess upwards as well! I knew the job could be done, simply for some reason I merely did non feel 100% assured. Ive merely helped pull one Camaro manual earlier which didnt really help towards this job. That only goes to show that you dont have to have whatever special skills, all you lot need is some adept logical thinking.

Afterwards:
I never knew how of import burn down safety was until I had this incident, never did I think I could be capable of causing something like that. My first impression throughout the job was that I thought to myself, "thats it"? The swap was no where near equally bad every bit I idea Information technology would take been. I guess all the worrying made me feel like everything was easier in the end. Grinding the crank downward was no where about as hard equally I thought, information technology was actually pretty like shooting fish in a barrel (but use those spacers!). I feel a whole lot better almost my auto altogether, it is now everything that I could accept ever wanted. At present I dont have a transmission barrier so next year I will be going with a BAT of some sort! The automobile feels pretty good, I have not had whatsoever issues so far (knock on wood). Everyone that has driven my auto says that it feels pretty good as far as all the mechanics go. I have never owned a manual car, only driven friends cars so this has taken some getting used to. I just a tad more practice and 500-thou miles and ill be fix to rip it up!!

Today (viii/8/09) I went to my GFs house and I had a gift waiting for me!

This thing supposedly lasts 4x longer than nearly extinguishers and is a whole lot smaller, ill be keeping this in my machine.

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