Former VWDieselParts.com Forum

Did you put 30% cross hatching on the entire bore to stop the rings from spinning and lining the gaps up. Did you mic the entire lenght of the bore. I always try for at lest 2 or 3 ten thousands of an inch tolerance. This is not as hard as it sounds it's quit doable with practice. I've never tryed ...

Prompted by my last post, my engine's 'Plastic Bottle Hone' is coming up to 4 years this August, and had been trouble free until last month, when I declared that the engine will be 30yrs old in Nov. :roll: A fault developed after a 30 mile fast run, whereby the car would not restart, after getting ...

Having gone through most of these fixes before finding the one that worked, I'm surprised to not have found it here after all this time, hence the thread resurrection. SPZ profile belts; it's the metric standard they were designed for, and nothing else will work for very long. http://www.gnuttibort...

I am in need of a cold start handle and they aren't available anymore. So i thought I'd ask here if maybe someone had a mk2 diesel that they were parting out that might have one on it I could buy.

I have to amend that Bob. He said he used the cassette tape case, not the tape itself. He said it's the perfect thickness. I suppose if you have a case laying around and a dial caliper that measures in millimeters, check it and see.

Oh yeah, I had another guy told me the way he set his was with an old cassette tape. He said they're just the right thickness. I laughed and said hell, I don't believe I even own a cassette tape anymore. Damn, I reckon I'm getting old Bob. It sucks, and it sure ain't for sissies

I actually discovered those when after replacing "everything" and still having slop I had my son move the shifter while I looked underneath at all pivot points and then I found them. It's virtually impossible to find them if you don't have help unless of course you know that they are ther...

did you replace the bushings at the actual shifter lever too? They use the same ones used elsewhere, the black "top hat" bushings. There is one on either side of the shifter pivot up inside the cylindrical housing that is right under the shifter handle. There are some other points that we...

I have been having an issue with the shifter in this car. It's hard to get it into 1st and 2nd. You can bump the reverse lockout and go up with it and you're in 3rd. You have to go just a smidgen over the lockout to get it into 1st. I can shift it although sometimes I miss it and put it in reverse i...

$150 seems pretty high. I think I have my old one down in my parts shelf somewhere and it turned out the noise it was making was not the motor bearings but the wheel hitting the plastic housing (mounts had come loose if I recall) I also parted out an 81 rabbit diesel that was just a mess (left to d...

bscutt wrote:Hoping that day does not come any time soon.

If it does just let me know. Mt. Vernon and Monticello are on my bucket list.

ok that sounds better. So as an HVAC guy you will appreciate this. My house is 48 years old and has the original furnace. I replaced the outside compressor/condenser unit in 1993. I replaced the original blower motor about 7 or 8 years ago. The previous blower I was told could not be lubed and unti...

$150 seems pretty high. I think I have my old one down in my parts shelf somewhere and it turned out the noise it was making was not the motor bearings but the wheel hitting the plastic housing (mounts had come loose if I recall) I also parted out an 81 rabbit diesel that was just a mess (left to d...

I drove it to Atlanta and back yesterday. Probably about a 200 mile round trip. It was nice and cool when I left at 4 AM so I didn't run it. It was a little after lunch when I came home. I wanted to run it to make sure it wasn't going to get hot and melt the fuse and the fuse panel like it was doing...

I finally got around to getting this motor out today. The one I bought wasn't anything like the one that was in there. Pretty sure that the one I bought is for a non a/c car. I just oiled the one that was in it since it had oilers on it. I put it all back together and it seems to be doing fine. But ...