I was working towards putting the serpentine belt on - nothing seemed to work. I was thinking of cutting off this pulley thing in the middle, to try a pattern that ran the belt across that point.
Then I found a pic of my motor, just before it got shipped. There's the serpentine, not yet misplaced on the way over but WTF? The pulley thing/mount with no pulley on it looks like it needs to have a dead pulley on on it .....
then I kept digging in my old pics some more - found another Passat, with the fan still on it......WITH THE FAN STILL ON IT!
There's my missing dead pulley. I did tell Peter I couldn't use the fan. However, it would have been better to ship it so I could tear it down to an idler pulley.
So I have to figure a way to make an idler pulley on the fan mount - there's a hollow shaft there, ,with bearings - maybe it won't be too bad.
After that, I have cooling to figure out (I'd love to get Evans but the $$ isn't going to be there plus it's a pain to buy compared to regular longlife Prestone or whatever), then fuel, then battery (not yet in place under the bed - going with Optima, can be mounted on it's side and it's better for weight to have it back there) - then ..... it should move itself around the yard. A big moment, since EVERYTHING on it is completly custom - brake lines, suspension, driveshafts,motor mouts,tranny mounts, almost nothing is left not built by me or swapped in by me.
and this is the SECOND diesel swap into this thing. I must be nuts lol.
Here's a pic of the new exhaust -I was able to cut up and use the old one from the 1.9td, 2" straight pipe going all the way out the back. It was pretty quiet with the k14 - how loud are these VNT turbo'd motors with no muffler/cat/nothin'?