The restoration team here at the Bridge Classic Cars HQ have been steadily making progress on the 1969 Audi 70L. Our restoration technician Dave, who is handling the reassembly of this rare Audi, has been methodically working his way through each job. Recently, he’s been test fitting the alternator and finding which order things in the engine back need to go back in, and has had to make a new alternator mount specific to this car as well as an offside engine mount. While at the front of the car, Dave has bent up and flared a new set of front brake lines from the front calipers.
Next up, Dave carefully began to hang the doors and very meticulously adjust the doors on the hinges correctly before moving underneath the car. Dave has had to fabricate several of the mountings for this car as they are no longer available and spare parts are hard to come by including a few of the gearbox mounts.
As with every restoration, the time it takes to finely adjust things is longer than you could imagine – for example, the offside front door of the Audi. After being built back up by Dave, he had to take off the door panels and lock mechanism to adjust several integral parts to get them to line up and work correctly.
Dave has also completely rebuilt the rear brakes, and went through the process of making a whole set of new hardlines as well as t-piece junction blocks to each side of the axle.
The final piece of the puzzle in this update was Dave having to fabricate a new engine mount for the car. Dave carefully put together a solution which uses a slightly wider opening in the car but now involves a steel tube the bolt feeds through as to not damage the car once it is fully tightened down.
