Klaus, the 84 Jetta TD, gets a rebuild

[Baron VonZeppelin]

If its in specs - its next to new.
Plus it is a completely proven part.

Judgement call - but i'll use it if you don't. (hint hint)

[wolfsburged]

No oiling problems before, and it is in spec, so probably will re-use.

Got word that my block and head have returned from the machinist. Will be checking up on those in the morning before heading to H2O!

Now I'm just waiting on Bus Depot to take their sweet time getting me the last of my parts...

[rabbid79]

Your project is looking great.

[theman53]

No oiling problems before, and it is in spec, so probably will re-use.

Got word that my block and head have returned from the machinist. Will be checking up on those in the morning before heading to H2O!

Now I'm just waiting on Bus Depot to take their sweet time getting me the last of my parts...

Depending on what year it was it may have a 30mm oil pump. THe later style that Myke_W on here sells is 36mm. It is supposed to deliver more oil for TD engines. For the 50.00 or so I went with it *trying to help you out Barron* LOL
Seriously, if it is going to be a while or long term engine I would go with a new/bigger IF the old one is indeed a 30mm.

[wolfsburged]

So head and block are back. Looking good. No pictures yet, forgot to snap some on Friday when we were up at the shop. Probably get some this Friday when we hopefully will be painting the block.

Head looks good. George at CHS did some TIG welding of the areas between valves.

Also got another batch of pieces from powder coat.



Tomorrow should be picking up a few more pieces in silver.

It seems that between this painting/coating spree I've lost the plastic bits of the headlight adjusters. Going tomorrow and hopefully they have not thrown them away at the powder coating place. Also noticed that I've lost my steering rack U-Joint boot. Hopefully can retrieve that from the painter's place as well. If not, will be looking for those bits.

[theman53]

Just a helpful suggestion.
I love the look of my bolt on parts, but it is impossible to tell where the oil leaks come from. I should have done the block in black and the rest in orange. So what I am saying is be careful painting the block accessories if you are thinking black, especially glossy black.

[wolfsburged]

Last batch of parts back from powder coat. Decided to do the alternator.

Unfortunately it looks like the plastic bits from my headlight adjusters have melted off in the powder coat oven.. Forgot about that little part about plastic and high temps being bad... So I need new ones.

Also got my cam lock in, and also the first half of my Bus Depot order. Now eagerly awaiting the second half.

[Baron VonZeppelin]

I agree on keeping black parts minimal on engine.
Brackets and such, valve cover, starter - black is fine.
I use a lot of silver cast and grey cast spray paints on engine accessories/miscellaneous.

That new coolant return distribution pipe would be good to have silver powdered.

Try and find a wide blade putty knife to wedge in with the camslide lock. You won't regret it.

Whats the scoop on Bus Depot ?
Never heard of them. As good/better than AutohausAZ or more offerings ?

[wolfsburged]

Well they have a decent part number search that actually returned hits on a lot of obscure pieces I had researched in Etka, and were cheaper than others who also had those parts (World Impex is the other I usually try when part numbers start showing up NLA or just no results other places). However, I placed my order on Sept 1 and I have just received the first half of my order. So I'm not too thrilled about the speed. Although everything I bought was special order from VW, but they said initially 5-7 business days for special items. I only know about them from past history with Vanagons.

[Baron VonZeppelin]

I ran some numbers thru BusDepot.com ...

They had the main thing i was hunting , decently priced.
Might order. idunno
But no Mk1 washer jars or MC reservoirs.

Ran some other wild numbers on a whim, and amazingly they could get them. But were all were pretty tall green tho.

Nice to have that resource.
Thanky

[wolfsburged]

Got my other box of Bus Depot stuff yesterday.


I just got a number of things that nobody else could find. I did wait a month for them, but the parts were very obscure. Probably common things would ship much quicker. Everything I got came in VW packaging. I don't know if they have access to some hidden treasure trove of parts that were sold off from VW long ago or something...

[wolfsburged]

Block is painted.

[Baron VonZeppelin]

It looky like semi-gloss black.
What color will oilpan and valve cover be ?
(chrome plated ? woo yeh  )

[JessaBug]

I don't know if we've decided all that yet. Its between silver and black, which is what we're sticking with. We don't want to go overboard on the silver, since our bay has been freshly painted and is nice and shiny, but a silver oil pan might not be a bad idea in the case of leaks.

I think the paint we used on the block was low-gloss actually. This was right after we painted it so it was still wet. Figure the low-gloss would be easier to see oil leaks (hopefully won't have to worry about them any time soon after the rebuild, but it is a VW and a diesel!).

Bill is traveling for work this week, but we're hoping to spend some quality time at the shop this weekend getting some more stuff painted and start putting things together. I'm getting anxious to start on the assembly!

[wolfsburged]

Got some more work in today. Cleaned the coolant passages out with some wire brushing and air. Lots of crap came out.

Got the oil squirters back in, and ARP main studs installed. New Glyco bearings installed and plastigauged. Crank is back in, and block heater installed. Checked ring gap all around, 0.035mm.

Ran into issues pressing in the new ARP rod bolts. Having machine shop do this next week. Also my crank timing pulley bolt came in wrong. So hopefully next weekend will have pistons in.


Getting crap out of the coolant passages


ARP main studs


Bearings in


Plastigauged


Crank back in


Compression rings test fit


Block heater in.