Matt Danger's B5 S4 Owner Log

Karlis came by and detailed my engine bay and wheel wells. What a difference! I still need to clean the heat shields and fender liners myself :-/.

While he was cleaning I removed the k03s. The driver’s side was pretty easy. The passenger’s side was more difficult. The notorious coolant feed line was easy to undo with a shaved 19mm box end. The difficulty was the small 10mm compressor mount bolt that also holds the mount for the oil feed line. The bolts are slightly smaller than 10mm so a box end would slip off and risk rounding it. I ended up pulling the coolant feed line first. This gave me enough room to get a 10mm socket on the oil line bracket bolt.

I disconnected the motor from the transmission (pretty easy) and removed the old clutch & flywheel. The old clutch didn’t look too bad.

I removed both motor mounts. The tranny mounts proved difficult. I attached them with an impact gun but I think that made matters worse. I removed the passenger’s mount bracket and put it in a vice and attacked it with a hammer & chisel. This failed. I’m going to have to borrow a saw-z-all. I was more careful with the driver’s mount. Instead of the impact I used a 1/2″ racket and held the  mount in place with another wrench.