Pulling Out 2.7T A6 engine (in progress)

[PluschakovP]

I was driving a little while back and started hearing a little knock from my bottom end. Went to change my oil and found some metal shavings in my oil. Took off my oil pan and definitely found more just on the bottom. Knock Knock. Who's there? Rod knock :) So this forced me to tear apart my bottom end. I heard you could change your rod bearings without pulling the engine, but IDK how that's true?... so I decided to pull my engine. I'll keep uploading pics as I go along to keep everyone posted on my status. Feel free to leave any questions or comments for me. Also, I've never pulled out an Audi engine, I guess you can say that I'm doing this just for the hell of it. Could buy a new engine, but I'd rather just change the bearings myself and see if it fixes it.
What I'm doing with my engine after I tear it open is to decide if it's just the bearings, or if I need to send my Crankshaft into the shop as well.
Possible upgrades will be, VAST Stage 3 Clutch, Short Shifter, JHM FMIC, Boost Gauge/Controller. I don't want to drop too much money.


Fully put together, the fun may now begin.


After I took the radiator support off.


Front, with bottom oil pan off.


Air filter box and Air Distributor taken off. Also my fuel lines.


Undercarriage unscrewed and all sensors. Ready to be pulled.


All of this work was done when the temp outside was 94 degrees! But it was all fun and totally worth the experience! A lot of pictures I forgot to take so a lot of steps are skipped in between the photos posted.



The beginning of the day with the motor attached.


Detaching sensors and turbo heat shields (didn't disconnect turbos anyways though)


Next was to unbolt the drive line from the tranny. We decided it'd be easier this way. Also when you're down there, unbolt your exhaust system at the catalytics.


Unbolting the shift linkage, on both sides of tranny. (2 sides b/c it's manual. Also my tranny mount was broken! )


Unbolt both front axles from tranny.


Strapping up the engine, to disconnect the motor mounts, to prevent it from squashing my face.


This picture skips a lot of steps but basically, after you unbolt the main parts, the engine should slide out a little bit, giving you more room to work. At this point you will need to disconnect the 2 heater core pipes, clutch line, and some others. Make sure your ECU is disconnected from the box and just place all the ECU sensors on top of the engine, as shown in the next picture.


Before pulling, make sure all mounts, sensors, exhaust, tranny/drive line, both axles, Shift Linkage (2 if manual), 3 Fuel Lines, A/C hoses, Battery (preferably taken out, freeing the Red Positive+ battery cable towards front of engine as it needs to be free to pull engine), ECU (and the sensors behind ECU inside the E-Box), Disconnect ground wires, Remove coolant line running under lower oil pan and unbolt other 2 behind oil pan.
Most Important: While pulling engine, do so slowly and watch for any wires or pipes that may be connected! There are always some tricky ones you will miss.


Engine, Tranny, Drive Line, Exhaust to Catalytics.


She is out!


(In this picture: 2 Shift Linkages, Sway bar, Crossmember, 2 Front Axles)

I found an awesome guide to help with removing the engine as well. The website is: http://www.vaglinks.com/Docs/Audi/B5...ne_Removal.pdf. I'd skip page 12 and instead of unbolting the exhaust right at the turbos, it's easier to unbolt from the catalytics.

I hope you all like this! If you have any questions, email me at: [email protected] I will create a new thread on the rebuilding of the engine, or would you all like me to stay on this thread?
Leave any questions or comments!

-Paul

Continued
7.10.10


The engine w/ exhaust, tranny, and drive line.


Taking off exhaust from down pipes off turbos.


Exhaust taken off both turbos.


No exhaust, starting to take off tranny to make the engine bare so I can flip it over easily.


Tranny, Exhaust, and Drive line taken off. Called it a day heh.

[Gumby]

where in washington are you?

[PluschakovP]

Lynden.

[BrianINF]

You have balls my friend. I wish I had tools and a garage. Good luck to you I like the picture of the process.

[PluschakovP]

the engine should be upside down hopefully by the end of this week when i get time. i'll get lots of pictures too for everyone to see.

[Mantis]

Good luck, I am always happy to see someone else that dives in headlong like myself

[Gumby]

If you need any help let me know. I'm in Bellingham.

Always more then happy to help a fellow AZ'er

[PluschakovP]

that'd be cool Gumby. I've never torn off the bottom of an Audi engine, so im not sure how itll go. im trying to see if this saturday i could borrow my friends cherry picker so i can pull the engine. ill let you know more when its for sure, cuz ill prolly need a little help.

[PluschakovP]

i'm pulling the engine out on thursday july 8 at 12 noon, today. hopefully ill have pics up by tomorrow the 9th! can't wait...

[8520]

Change EVERYTHING while it's out.

[TheBlueMartin]

Its not fun, but it can be done, even with two rods bent like candy canes:



(this was 6 years ago, so I dont remember much about it)

[Poopie]

pulling the engine is pretty easy. unbolt the exhaust from the DP back. unbolt the axles. support the tranny and remove the mounts. unbolt the linkage and pivot rod from the top of the tranny. free up any coolant lines and hoses to the heater core. disconnect the wiring harness from the ecu and pile all the connectors on top of the motor to make sure you got them all. Then unbolt the motor mounts. The engine should be able to picked out at that point.

[PluschakovP]

pulling the engine is pretty easy. unbolt the exhaust from the DP back. unbolt the axles. support the tranny and remove the mounts. unbolt the linkage and pivot rod from the top of the tranny. free up any coolant lines and hoses to the heater core. disconnect the wiring harness from the ecu and pile all the connectors on top of the motor to make sure you got them all. Then unbolt the motor mounts. The engine should be able to picked out at that point.

Sweet thanks man, I needed a little help with how to properly take off the undercarriage. I wasn't too sure what to unbolt first with like the tranny and stuff. Im starting in an hour and a half, and work on it all day almost.

[PluschakovP]

Change EVERYTHING while it's out.

what do you mean everything? anything specific that should be noted?

[Lancek1028]

ill be watching this thread! Too cool!

[TheBlueMartin]

what do you mean everything? anything specific that should be noted?

New turbos (K04's!), valve cover gaskets, coolant temp sensors in rear (and related coolant o-rings on hard pipes), ect....

[PluschakovP]

Alright guys, it took me 6.5 hours to go from where the engine was, to completely removing it with the transmission. It was a lot of fun! I'll try to get the pics up tonight, if not then tomorrow. I'll consider actually making a word intensive manual on how to remove an Audi 2.7T engine, but in the future of course, if I feel like it haha. Thanks for all the support everybody.

-Paul

[EinSchnellAudi]

Good job man! Props for jumping right in on this for not doing this with an audi engine before. Goof luck with all your repairs! Subscribed. My next Audi is hopefully a 2.7 allroad so ill be watching this!!!

[PluschakovP]

so i finally got to pull off the upper oil pan and pulled off the rods (pics later). 5 out of 6 rod bearings were bad. LOL. yep, you can only imagine how bad it sounded.
soon ill be ordering my rod bearings after i send the crank to the shop to see if it needs to be repaired. then all i need to do is put on the new bearings, close up the engine, and yadi yadi da, multiple days later, have the engine put back in and hopefully have a successful start video :)

[chrisbostonusmc]

Props to you man..You just joined this month and made a thread like this to help out the community. If i could give you another ring i would. I need to change out my rods eventually too

[PluschakovP]

I started a new thread about the same thing. More info if you're interested on this link.

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...Engine-Rebuild

[PluschakovP]

do you have more pics of this same engine out? and any pics of any work you've done to it? id love to see them, im in the process of putting my motor together and im just interested in pics to double check my work.