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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: anarchyx34 on July 10, 2006, 09:18:30 pm

Title: It has begun...
Post by: anarchyx34 on July 10, 2006, 09:18:30 pm: Before you I behold the centerpiece of my diesel swap project. I'm quite happy right now as the motor seems to be in pretty clean shape. Now, I'm still a bit unfamiliar with these engines, so I snapped some pics hoping that someone here can tell me what these things are and what they do.

First, the beast..

(http://www.photodump.com/direct/anarchyx34/vwidi-1.jpg)

Now the questions.

This is on the side of the cyl. head, my gas engine dosent have one of these. I'm assuming it's for the glow plug relay?
(http://www.photodump.com/direct/anarchyx34/vwidi-2.jpg)

WTF is this??? Located on the side of the block and would be facing the firewall

(http://www.photodump.com/direct/anarchyx34/vwidi-3.jpg)

Any idea where these used to go?

(http://www.photodump.com/direct/anarchyx34/vwidi-4.jpg)

Not sure what this is/was either.
(http://www.photodump.com/direct/anarchyx34/vwidi-5.jpg)

Thanks!!!!
Title: Re: It has begun...
Post by: QuickTD on July 10, 2006, 09:41:12 pm: Quote from: "anarchyx34"

This is on the side of the cyl. head, my gas engine dosent have one of these. I'm assuming it's for the glow plug relay?
(http://www.photodump.com/direct/anarchyx34/vwidi-2.jpg)

Depends on what the engine came out of. Some had the glow plug sensor here some had the guage sensor in that location. You'll have to offer up more info.

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WTF is this??? Located on the side of the block and would be facing the firewall

(http://www.photodump.com/direct/anarchyx34/vwidi-3.jpg)

Block heater.

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Any idea where these used to go?

(http://www.photodump.com/direct/anarchyx34/vwidi-4.jpg)

The largest and lowest one is the bottom rad hose. The upper one on the water pump is the heater return, the cut one on the oil cooler would also "t" into the heater return hose. In a front drive installation there would be a metal pipe that snakes around to the rear of the engine to reach the heater hose connection. The hacks that removed it cut up the incredibly expensive "t" hose that connects the oil cooler and heater return to the metal pipe...

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Not sure what this is/was either.

(http://www.photodump.com/direct/anarchyx34/vwidi-5.jpg)

It's the vent for the bottom of the LDA (boost enrichment diaphram), do not connect anything to it just point the "tit" downwards so crap doesn't get in it.
Title: It has begun...
Post by: anarchyx34 on July 10, 2006, 11:36:40 pm: Thanks for the reply! So I need to get a new T-hose for the oil cooler, and the metal pipe if mine's missing (didnt really notice). Any good sources for this online aside from the dealer?
Title: It has begun...
Post by: nkb on July 10, 2006, 11:47:05 pm: i can get that T pipe that has replaceable hoses for 60$ canadian. no more molded one piece crap
Title: It has begun...
Post by: insdtanoodles on July 11, 2006, 06:42:31 pm: Quote
i can get that T pipe that has replaceable hoses for 60$ canadian. no more molded one piece crap

yeah I bought a "T" hose from altrom and all it had was 3 different hoses clamped to a solid plastic "t" and it was only 38 bucks I think. It is actually sitting in my trunk right now.
Title: It has begun...
Post by: andy2 on July 11, 2006, 08:24:45 pm: The white "switch" on the cyl head is used on cars with A/C its a temp switch that opens the A/C clutch circuit if the coolant temp gets above a certian safe max temperature.Definitely a must for an A/C equiped car,otherwise just ignore it :wink:.
Title: It has begun...
Post by: RabbitJockey on July 11, 2006, 09:17:50 pm: the worst stage of a motor swap is when you have only 1 more step to go and it is taking longer than expected and you are just excited to drive the car and all you wanna do is drive the car but you can't drive the car cause of it. happened to me effing exhaust all i wanted to do was drive the turbo
Title: It has begun...
Post by: nkb on July 12, 2006, 07:59:16 am: Quote from: insdtanoodles

yeah I bought a "T" hose from altrom and all it had was 3 different hoses clamped to a solid plastic "t" and it was only 38 bucks I think. It is actually sitting in my trunk right now.

38$$?? wow my parts guy must be ripping me off, whats the part number off that piece you have?
Title: It has begun...
Post by: anarchyx34 on July 12, 2006, 03:13:56 pm: OK, since mine didnt come with this 3-way hose and pipe, and I've never seen one before, I need help figuring out what I need. I have ETKA (german language unfortunately). Here's the parts explosion I pulled up.

(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/3228/coolanthoses9pz.jpg)

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Title: It has begun...
Post by: anarchyx34 on July 12, 2006, 03:51:46 pm: OK, I printed it out and looked a little closer, and here's what I found.

http://www.worldimpex.com/item_detail.html?sku=40587
http://www.worldimpex.com/item_detail.html?sku=5034
http://www.worldimpex.com/item_detail.html?sku=42157

Seems about right dosent it? The only thing that concerns me is the distribution pipe, because worldimpex says "except turbo", but ETKA shows that part # for engine code MF, which is turbo. I cant imagine them being any different. So should I order these?