1.5 solid 11mm head on 12mm 1.6 block?? carnage pics inside..

[maxfax]

Fingers crossed!!!  The suspense is killing me!!!!   

Ok yeah, make sure that cam sproket is tight... 

[lord_verminaard]

Here's the build thread of the Wife's car:
http://www.vwdiesel.net/forum/index.php?topic=17100.0

Also, give that cam bolt a good whack with a hammer, then re-torque it! 

Brendan

[riceatingrabbit]

Fingers crossed!!!  The suspense is killing me!!!!  

Ok yeah, make sure that cam sproket is tight...  

lol... well, last night I got it to the point that i wanted to start it.. just to hear it run, then put all of the accessory back on.....and I I got it to fire a couple times!!!!

but.. then....





















the battery died!!!!




and now I am probably not going to have another chance to work on it until the beginning of next week..  so... dang!!!





oh and Brendan, thanks for the link

[Rabbit TD]

Damn it, the suspense is killing me too

[riceatingrabbit]

... you think you guys are anxious... this is SUPPOSED to be my daily driver! I havent had a car the whole time this things been down!!! more than two months now

my fingers are seriously crossed on this thing..


what sux thought is that its so close, and now im not going to have a chance to work on it for a few days...

[riceatingrabbit]

I got a chance to work on it tonight!!!

I bled the fuel system... hit the glow plugs... crank... crank....... fire!!!! sput sput puuuurrrrrrrr.....purrrrrrr......


IT RUNS!!!!!!!

I let it run for about 45 minutes and it didnt do anything funny... so thats a good sign. I went to back it out of the garage and first is where reverse is suppose to be... so, tomorrow I have to ajust the shift linkage to be able to drive it..

I have heard that you are suppose to re torque the head after its gotten hot... thoughts on this???

proof

[maxfax]

Beautiful music!!!!  That's what that is!   I imagine moreso for you!

That one is 12mm right?  Did you use bolts or studs?  With studs I retorque right after warming it up to the stud maufacturer's highest spec (Arp = 85lb/ft?), then again after the 1000 miles... 

I think Bentley says a quarter turn right after warmup, and another quarter turn after 1000 miles when using the stretch bolts.. Never having used the stretch bolts I can;t say for sure, but I would probably follow that procedure..

[Zulfiqar]

how come your old hydro headgasket has all similar sized coolant holes, the original goetze part Ive seen have big coolant holes on the 3 and 4 cylinders and smaller holes on the 1 and 2 cylinder side..

[riceatingrabbit]

how come your old hydro headgasket has all similar sized coolant holes, the original goetze part Ive seen have big coolant holes on the 3 and 4 cylinders and smaller holes on the 1 and 2 cylinder side..

dunno... i just bought a stock mech gasket...

[riceatingrabbit]

oh... and a little update on the situation...


I took it out today and drove it around my neighborhood for about half an hour... it passed that test, so then I took it out on the highway....10 miles down hill, turn around and 10 miles back up that steep hill..

thats the most stressful part of my daily drive and it did it without any major issues.. coolant temp stayed right where it should be, and oil pressure looked good... I've got 35 psi at warm idle, and about 75 psi at highway speed..

the only problem I had was the small overflow coolant hose got a pin hole in it and was pissing coolant when I got it back.. and also the shift linkage is nearly unadjustable.. becuase all of the bushings are gone.. So tomorrow i will put a new hose on it and rebuild the shifter..


got about 30 miles on it now... so far so good.. keeping the fingers crossed..

[lovinthedeez]

that 5 dollar shifter bushing kit is one of the first things i replace on any old dub i come across.  good to hear it passed the test.