Nibbler’s Universe: past and present

[Rightnider]

Judging from what I can make out of the registration, it seems to have spent most of its life in a salt free environment, Gotland.  That’s certainly reassuring.  

[Nibbler]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

5 Cyl? COTY here, IIRC

No it’s a 1,8 litre 4 banger with carburettor. 90 wild and furious horsepower. 

[Nibbler]

On 21/04/2025 at 20:27, Rightnider said:

Well done!

Tell us more! 

Sold new in Norrköping but made the journey to Gotland in 1994 if I remember correctly. I have the service history and it stayed on Gotland until the guy I bought it from needed a car to get home from Gotland. So he gave his father order too find the cheapest car that could get him home and this is what the father bought. 400 000 kilometers or around 250 000 miles on the odometer. Looks terrible inside, mostly just dirt but the drivers seat is pretty knackered. Engine has some issues, it’s running a bit rough and it failed its last MOT because of a ball joint. I need to fix that before the end of this month. 

[Rightnider]

We want more pictures! What’s your plan for it?

[Nibbler]

On 22/04/2025 at 22:19, Rightnider said:

We want more pictures! What’s your plan for it?

Ah, you want dirty pictures! I can give you dirty pictures. 

Drivers seat is knackered and so is the backseat. 

 

This is probably the dirtiest car I’ve ever bought, it’s unbelievable filthy so yesterday evening was spent cleaning.

Close up on the aftermarket speaker on the dash just to give you guys an idea about the amount of dirt.

I’m not done yet, but the interior actually cleaned up pretty nice.

[Nibbler]

Audi 100 1,8 Avant: Quite a productive day today. The previous owner told me that after changing the timing belt and doing some stuff with the cooling system he had overheating issues. I know that these engines are notoriously hard to bleed so I thought I would try to vacuum fill the cooling system. 

This took some time because I found issues with a couple of hoses. One disintegrated when I touched it, another one was leaking. 

I fixed the leaks with som universal hoses. Filled the cooling system and tomorrow I will see if it still overheats. There are no signs of a failed head gasket. No oil in the coolant and no coolant in the oil. The car smokes but it looks blue to me. Tomorrow I will check the spark plugs and see what they can tell me.

So after that I continued with the knackered ball joint. You can’t change just the ball joint, instead you change the complete arm. I’ve done it 4 times the past 12 months so it went relatively smooth. It was done in about two hours. 
 

Then I had a bit of disaster. Checking why the air filter was loose I found this sleeve (or whatever you call it) in the carburettor.

Just pure luck that it got stuck, but where is the nut? 😱 I’m not sure I want to know 😱

All the bolts that hold the air filter was loose and the threads in the carburettor was stripped. I can buy a new carburettor but for the same price I can get around 5 second hand ones. So I think I buy a couple of used ones. Maybe i try to re-thread the carburettor.