haha just hung up with him actually, super nice guy. http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/4349105316.html gonna go meet him as soon as my a/c...
99 vw passat 5dr 1.8t 153k miles he just put a timing belt on, water pump, motor mounts and like 85% of the front suspension components. it drove...
i have to get him the motor, haven't had anything big enough to fit it in. found me a daily driver though, 5dr too so should fit in the back. hope...
the stock one? ringland failure on #2 and #4 @17k miles @ stg2
Lol!!!! Night=made
LOL good point
motor wont fit in the rental focus trunk. meh. was going to take to ball in the morning, not sure what imma do now. it's a bit heavy as a...
i drained out right at 5qts minus some that didn't drain and spilled out of tubes / etc later once the engine was on the engine stand, but that...
yeah, i'm really really struggling on the root cause, of course the motor isn't fully torn down yet but you can tell an awful lot from this...
yep, and while i'm no expert, I know what I was working with... i mean not all coders work for microsoft, doesn't mean they can't code. i may not...
oh wow, they are 900$ no wonder I didn't put them in last time. anyway i'll worry about that later, need to get a daily driver secured and find...
very good info there, yeah i need to really figure out how i'm going to do the heads and what. I want it to remain the drive ability it was with...
pretty proud of myself though, refuse to be negative, refuse. had it out of the car and down to a longblock in 5hr. beast mode.
yeah... man it was fast as i would want heh. since i have it apart might as well do cams / headwork and really get up there. no reason not to...
so looks like at the very minimum i'll need an oil cooler and pan since you never re use those after a metal incident in the oil like this. i...
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no inline filter, turbo sounded fine though right before i shut it off. still spins / sounds perfect now too that it's off.
motors already out............ [IMG]
my magnetic drain plug just now. forget filtering the oil LOL, there it is right there. [IMG]
yesterday i started it for a quick second to pull it up onto my ramps to start tearing it all out. i noticed that the sound is extremely audible...
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