Sean's (& Ed's & Scott's) Astor GTi6

[Ed Doe]

Not the release bearing, gearbox oil aint gonna fix that, but it is the input shaft bearing whining... My DT box does it, I know a few GTI6 boxes that do it also!! Not that bad yet though, just change the oil and should all be good...

Cheers for your help though buddy!

Thanks for clarifying matey. Tbh there's just no point in changing the gear oil until that bbm mount is pressed; so I can whang the ds out, drop the oil at the same time, change the mount, change the hub, change the wishbone, and then chuck it all back togher with the new gear oil. It'll be a couple of days faffing I reckon, and we'll probably need airtools to get the hubnuts off (?)

No worries at all on the weekend, sorry I was grumpy when tired, and sorry I fell asleep when you were talking about pre-cups Had a really great time, and I feel a bit better for at least knowing what one of the car's problems is now!

Why change the whole wishbone? Just bang a new ball joint on. Maz's kitchen isnt going to pay for its self. you need to save your money

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Well I just got off the phone to Kris B, who reckons that the meyle balljoints are stronger than normal, and it might be worth running a vernier round them to check for damage? Is it even worth bothering, or is there a chance they wont be damaged? Bearing in mind the clonk has been occuring on and off since FCS last year.... :S

I've got ones with securing bolts you can unscrew...

Might have to take you up on that... How hard would it be to put meyhle hd bushes and balljoints onto the body of the wishbone? I've only ever seen balljoints changed, never seen how easy/hard it is to change the bushes?




So in summary, my to do list/problems list is as follows;

1. change hub
2. change wishbone/balljoint (?)
3. change lower engine mount
4. Change gear oil
5. Exhaust blowing....
6. Check rear beam bolts (I'm getting a metallic squeaking noise from the rear when cornering)
7. this F**king rich running is doing my head in; I think I'm gonna need to give Niall some serious bumloving in exchange for pp'ing the car pretty soon, before I start throwing things at it. Like hammers. I've got another set of plugs, fuel filter, and working 2nd map and tps on their way to try soon, but I'm partially suspecting another f*cked lambda sensor tbh...