Diving in.

[icyhotpatch]

See I was thinking about doing the same thing but I want stiffer than stock ride but not rail stiff. The HD seems too much for me. Like I said though im going to try and get the car off the ground and see if there is any other issues first

[8v-of-fury]

we also added a upper front strut bar, and lower front 4 point at the same time.. SO it stiffened like 300%.

[icyhotpatch]

I was thinking of upper front strut bar as well. Seems like a good easy mod for better handling

[icyhotpatch]

I guess ill have to start a build thread

[icyhotpatch]

Finally getting the car registered today. At SOS now.

[icyhotpatch]

And the valve cover is leaking worse. Im thinking because of the amount of driving I did. Oil hotter thinner leak more

[icyhotpatch]

Of coarse I get it registered and everything goes to poop. Went through 2-3 quarts of oil in 14.4 miles. Leaks less ounce the oil level gets lower than 3 qts less oil to leak right. lol not mad just annoyed ive been waiting for 5 years to get one of these babies and it starts squirting oil everywhere.

[theman53]

Suggestion, find the aluminum valve cover from a G60 and get the one piece rubber gasket. What happens a lot is the stamped steel gets torqued too hard and then leaks. From there people beat on them to get it to stop and make it worse. If you can find a straight valve cover in steel get it. Buy brand new, but in my experience you won't get the one you have to stop if it is like that now. If he used RTV it probably blew out and you have nothing back there now.

[icyhotpatch]

Thats what it looks like to me. Too much torquing.  The guy who I bought it from entered the car in shows and drove it once or twice a month to get a gallon of milk instead of driving his truck. He claims to have replaced all seals which if you look at the engine it looks like it was out he cleaned it all and put it back. The head looks clean and same with the coolant. BUT you never know. He was a great guy talked too him for a good while. I guess I just believe too much in people.

[flowmastergfunk]

Looks like a nice find! More pictures! I love my mk1 but I wish it was a monster diesel instead of a monster gasser 

[icyhotpatch]

Got my Bentley and camshaft seal. Still waiting for valvecover gasket. Stuck in usps.

[icyhotpatch]

Got valve cover replaced and still seems to be leaking something. It appears its the iP which was rebuilt 10 years but only 3000 miles ago which I believe the guy the valve cover gasket was new but torqued a little too much and it was cork of coarse.  The guy took care of the car but did not do it exactly to vw spec. Long story short the ip needs rebuilding and I need to get a kit soon. My wife is getting annoyed that the rabbit is not up and about but hey its a 30 year old car.

[theman53]

IP has diesel in it, the valve cover would be leaking oil? You need to look at the back of the block.

[icyhotpatch]

I think im going to rebuild the engine or reseal the engine and reseal the pump. Now I just need to find the gasket kit. I talked the guy down because I knew this was going to happen. I dunno what heppened maybe lack of use of the vehicle? Anyways time to stop crying about it. Recommendations? I wanna get this ordered today. So I can start asap I hate sitting around doing nothing. any special tools you guys recoomend or that I absolutely need. I know I need the gauge for the ip but I believe I can get away with other tools for most of it.

[icyhotpatch]

The upside is the engine has been apart before so it should come apart easier than if it had never been. I might get a kit from rockauto. I noticed on rockauto they have 11.5mm bolt holes and 12.5 mm bolt holes. Is there something that determines this according to year or should I just start taking the engine apart in order to figure it out.