oil squirters

[turbosuzi]

I have two broken oil squirters and was trying to find them for replacement and even the dealer doent know what they are, the parts manager talked to the mechanics and they said that I would have to bring them in so they could tell what they were. They kept trying to tell me that they were part of the oil pump or parof the block... anyhoo I thought I would come to the real professionals and ask here where can I get them? Can they be replaced w/o removing the crank? can i just leave them alone because they are pressure regulated by the bolt? I don't race the motor it is just to get me to school and back.
does anyone know where I can find an exploded view of the motor to get a pt#
Thanks
Mike

[rallydiesel]

I try to always have a part number whenever I call. The other day I called for an axle bolt. You know, the big bolt that holds the drive axle in the wheel bearing carrier. I figured the parts guy would know what it was as it's pretty self-explanatory, right? He could not figure out which bolt it was. I said, you can actually see it when you take off the front hub cap, right in the middle of the wheel, that really big bolt. He couldn't figure it out. That was the last time I called without a part number.  

[rodpaslow]

Hey, listen - I have an extra set of 4 for a 1.6 TD.  Last one I did I had to buy extras - I forget why - but you can have them if you want them, there is nothing wrong with them other than they need a good cleaning as they have been sitting for awile!

[macka]

wow you have some helpful staff at your dealership.

[lord_verminaard]

I try to always have a part number whenever I call. The other day I called for an axle bolt. You know, the big bolt that holds the drive axle in the wheel bearing carrier. I figured the parts guy would know what it was as it's pretty self-explanatory, right? He could not figure out which bolt it was. I said, you can actually see it when you take off the front hub cap, right in the middle of the wheel, that really big bolt. He couldn't figure it out. That was the last time I called without a part number.  

That's cause there is no bolt there.  It's a nut.  I bet you really got the guy cornfuzzled.

Brendan

[rallydiesel]

On the mkV it's a bolt but it wouldn't have mattered because the guy on the other end of the phone probably didn't know the difference anyway. 

[RabbitJockey]

dealer ships really are awful, always trying to rip people off on service and never willing to look up parts or work with you on finding them.  fortunately, at my local vw the parts guy jonathan is awesome, even if he thinks they won't have it, he always looks every way he can  not to mention he knows loads and loads about vws, hes not just some dick that sits behind a computer

[rallydiesel]

The regular parts guy is really good and will try to get you a discount if you're a VW nut. Unfortunately there's fill-ins that have no clue. They're not all bad.

[Turbinepowered]

On the mkV it's a bolt but it wouldn't have mattered because the guy on the other end of the phone probably didn't know the difference anyway. 

... They went to a bolt on the MKV? That sounds dumb, how in the world does it accomplish its task? Thread down into the splined shaft?

My local dealership (35 miles away... ) has an awesome parts department. Guy's working the warehouses now to see if he can shake up a set of stock B1 rear axle bushings for me.

[theman53]

I don't have a local VW shop the closest I believe is Wooster Ohio. The one guy there isn't bad, he has even referred me to Troy my friend that drag races a 1.8L CIS gasser for "go fast" parts. BUT the rest of them are pretty dumb. I bought some injector shims from the one guy and went to order different thicknesses a couple days later and the rest of the crew said that they couldn't get them for the last 10 years

[rallydiesel]

... They went to a bolt on the MKV? That sounds dumb, how in the world does it accomplish its task? Thread down into the splined shaft?

That's right. It's a big bugger that has to be torqued to 150 ft lbs. PLUS another 180 degrees.

[Turbinepowered]

... They went to a bolt on the MKV? That sounds dumb, how in the world does it accomplish its task? Thread down into the splined shaft?

That's right. It's a big bugger that has to be torqued to 150 ft lbs. PLUS another 180 degrees.

That's as opposed to the Mk3 axle nut torque of 195ft-lbs?

[turbosuzi]

hey thanks guys. Just don't see how it is so hard to know about the items that you sell, we used to make fun of the "clueless" people at autozone but now the parts manager and the mechanics at a dealership. i thought that going to the stealership was that you knew that you were going to get raped by someone who knows what they are doing.

what do you guys think about replacing the broken ones? Is it necessary because the bolt regulates oil pressure? can they be replaced with the crank still in place?