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• Italian Tune-up (my poor baby) by burn_your_money on 05 Apr, 2009 07:37
• Well today started off like a regular Sunday for me. I woke up early, loaded my Golf with my engine hoist and tools and headed out to Oakville to go pull a motor. I get there, meet the guy and go to position my car to unload the engine hoist. Ohoh. She's stuck in third. The clutch works, but it won't shift. I try and force it to shift and I can hear a grinding sound. Get out, check the linkage, all is good. Crap.
  
  I limp it to Partsource and buy some gear oil hoping that it will some how miraculously fix it. I pull out the speedo cable and I can see lots of fluid in the gearbox. I stick my finger into the oil and have a look at it. It looks very, very shiny. Lots of brass bits. So that's what the grinding sound was...
  
  So now I'm 45 minutes from home, with a car that only has third gear.
  
  I figure I have 3 choices:
  
  1) leave my car there and call a friend for a ride
  2) try and figure out my way home on the back roads, encountering many stop signs and traffic lights
  3) take my chances on the Gardener, DVP and 404. 3 of Torontos busiest highways.
  
  I'll take box #3 please Johnny.
  
  As I'm about to get on the on ramp I'm wondering what's going to go first, the tranny, the headgasket, the rings or my pump. Well after 45 minutes of 4500 RPM I'm happy to say that everything (except my ears) made it. I was able to maintain 90km/h the whole way.
  
  Those Germans (actually Mexicans) knew what they were doing when they built my car. Hurray.
  
  Surprisingly there was no smoke. Good thing Giles knows how to build a pump.
  
  So now I'm at the shop putting a motor into a car, instead of taking one out. Hopefully I have enough parts around :lol:
• #1 by hamradio on 05 Apr, 2009 07:40
• Sorry to hear of your troubles, but good to hear that the car made it without issue.
  
  
  A friend had the same issue in an a1 cabriolet, and some of the shift forks were bent.
• #2 by Vincent Waldon on 05 Apr, 2009 11:18
• I believe "Tyler running out of parts" is one of the Seven Signs of the Apocalypse. :wink:
• #3 by burn_your_money on 05 Apr, 2009 17:31
• Almost done... just need to hook the exhaust hooked up and bleed the fuel system then it's off to the races with my snazzy new 1.9NA
• #4 by znate on 05 Apr, 2009 18:50
• 1.9NA eh? sounds like what you were building for mom, did you steal her engine?
  
  You sure have your share of car trouble, you ought to buy a real car...yes...you know exactly what im talking about...a diesel chevette.:lol:
  
  If you haven't worked the bugs out by next weekend and need a ride home i could pick you up if someone pays fuel.
• #5 by burn_your_money on 05 Apr, 2009 19:16
• It's up and running, pretty good too. Lots more pep in her step. Hopefully I make it home :lol:
  
  
  Yeah I stole mom's engine.  
• #6 by 8v-of-fury on 05 Apr, 2009 19:29
• Quote from: "znate"

  1.9NA eh? sounds like what you were building for mom, did you steal her engine?
  
  You sure have your share of car trouble, you ought to buy a real car...yes...you know exactly what im talking about...a diesel chevette.:lol:
  
  If you haven't worked the bugs out by next weekend and need a ride home i could pick you up if someone pays fuel.

  
  
  You guys brothers? or just reallly close? lmao kidding
  
  Diesel=YES Domestic=NO  
  
  I had a diesel chevette.. for like 3 months.. it bombed around pretty good for having a blown engine. there was something wrong with the oil not getting enough to the top of the engine.. i dunno bought it for a case of beer, drove it hard for 2.5 months under the other guys name and stuff so i wouldnt have to certify it.. because it never would lol. it did good
  
  
  
  Hey Ty, you got any pics of your swap??
• #7 by znate on 05 Apr, 2009 19:44
• haha nice, shes a real beauty. i think im in love.
  you don't still have it eh? actually no, i cant buy more cars.
• #8 by 8v-of-fury on 05 Apr, 2009 19:47
• nope sold it for tripple what i paid for it! to a guy who was gonna swap the engine and everything to use it as a derby car in a compact class.. so i put out like 30 to get the car, put nothing but gas in it.. and then got 85 when i sold it.. decent deal if u ask me. the guy even came and hauled it away!
  
  Yours looks pretty mint got any picturres? sorry to hijack tyler, but if hes got pics hes more interesting unless u got pics.. and yours being VW.. he doesnt stand a chance in the cool-ness contest
• #9 by znate on 05 Apr, 2009 20:00
• ooo first with pics wins the rights to this thread :lol:
  
  I had one before this one, paid 175 and a case of beer. traded it for a moped and $500, used the money to go to alberta and get this one.
  Its got a few rust spots but its solid, runs great too, the other needed an engine rebuild and there was no floor left.
  I think i came out okay.
  
  
  
  and of course we need a pic of the ped
  
  
• #10 by 8v-of-fury on 05 Apr, 2009 20:07
• sweet bike, I bet it rippps
  
  Thats a good lookin car, surface rust is nothing.. BEAUTY!
• #11 by burn_your_money on 06 Apr, 2009 04:47
• How'd this turn into a thread about crappy chevettes. What a thread jack    :lol:
  
  I'm just joking, I'd drive a diesel chevette no problem.
  
  I'll try and get pics today but the weather is pretty crappy
• #12 by jtanguay on 06 Apr, 2009 06:15
• the isuzu diesel engines are alright (one of the things GM did right... was not manufacture their own small diesel engine).  they could sure use a Giles pump though  :lol:  even being a 1.8L a 1.6NA Gilsified could walk all over it  :lol:
• #13 by foxracer1 on 06 Apr, 2009 07:49
• Quote from: "8v-of-fury"

  put nothing but gas in it..

  
  
  No wonder it didn't run long.  :lol:
• #14 by 8v-of-fury on 06 Apr, 2009 07:51
• LMAO.. Even I didnt catch that.. lol!
  
  MY bad my bad.. FUEL lol sorry.. im new to diesel-land lol
  
  Hey tyler, did you guys get like 4-5 inches last night down your way? weather IS EFFED