So last easter i bought a mk4 1.8t 5 speed for my girlfriend, put a new tbelt on it and got it in good running order. She made teaching her to drive stick extremely difficult and never learned, then broke up with me. SO then I was about to sell the car and lose money on it
The luck stayed in my favor hen i ran my daily driver mk3 2.0 through some deep standing water that i didn't see. It bent 2 rods and the gear broke off the starter and cracked the bell housing letting the oil pour out. Then i had to fight with insurance for 3 months in order to get them to cover the damage. So i took the transmission and had it welded shut, and told the garage i had it at to go ahead and fix it cause i had received my check, this was in october. It took them until the end of january to finish the car, all the while i am drivng the mk4 that i wanted to sell back in july. Then once they finish it they tell me its leaking oil but it stopped and i can pick it up. When i go to pick it up i can see its still leaking oil so i only paid a 1/3 of the bill and told them to figure out whats wrong before i pay the rest and pick it up. The guy tells me, he never ground down the weld to make clearance for the flywheel(which i specifically told them to) and then even tells me that he could hear the flywheel hitting the weld when he first started the car. So i said you're going to fix it then right? And he proceeds to say that couldn't have made it leak, so anyway, the car is left there to be checked why its leaking. I call them almost every week to see if they figured it out, until march or april when they tell me they checked it out its not leaking anymore, and i can pick it up. so i go and pay them and take the car to get an enhanced inspection so that i can get a reconstructed title. First thing i notice when i go to pick it up at the inspection station is that its still leaking oil, but it looked like it was the oil cooler o ring(which had been leaking before all this and i gave them an o ring for it which they never installed), so i replace that and it still leaks. Call the shop, and they tell me they can look at it next week (last time they said that it took 3 months.) so i have a mk4 i have wanted to sell for almost a year, and a shop that wasn't really working with me, so i decide that its best if me and a friend pull the trans have it welded again and put it back in like this:
painted red to check for for clearance.
here is how it was removed, clearly the flywheel hitting it had nothing to do with the leak...
so the mk3 gets back to daily status after almost a year, and way too much bs, then i sell the mk4 to a friend(lose almost 2k on it) and 2 days after i sell it to him he brings it back to me saying it makes a weird fluttery sound. so i said bring it over, i take it for a drive and sure enough it makes a weird fluttery sound especially in 2nd gear while coasting. so i take it home and jack it up to check the front end, and then i just see a bunch of oil pouring out of the bell housing. I knew right away it was a case of self machining syndrome. So we agreed, he'd buy the replacement trans and i'd install it for him, heres how the 02j came out last night. So this story is basically about how i'm a lucky guy haha.
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