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I can send you one for $25 off of an '85. I have a matched pair if you'd like. Shipped from suburban Chicago.

Since people mentioned him, I'll share my review of Giles; thumbs down. I ordered a quad of injectors for an NA from him years ago. Before I installed them, I thought they looked a little suspicious, and so I had them pop tested at a local diesel shop. They were all over the place! You'll never hear...

Holy cow, Fatmobile! How did he manage to find such a deal?

I loosened the pump mounts, pulled the pump away from the engine, and tightened them. The net travel was perhaps a mm of southward movement on the forward-most corner bolt. The engine started immediately! I shut it down to let the RTV on the valve cover gasket cure as much of the 24 hour proscribed ...

I ran the engine at high idle for a few minutes last night to juice up the battery and purge any air from the lines. I installed a marine bulb-style hand pump on in the fuel input to the pump, and it remains too rigid to squeeze at present, so hopefully that's not an issue. I need to acquire clear f...

Yesterday, over the course of 8 hours, I got the pump timed perfectly by the book, to 0.038" on the gauge, which is right in the middle of the spec for the '85 Golf. It had been about 80 degrees all day in the sun, and the car barely started on the 2nd cycling of glow plugs. The engine would re...

If you come back, feel free to PM me. I've done it a few times on '82 vans, have the big thick factory VW manual for the Vanagon diesels, and still have my '82 diesel Westy that I can consult with pics and particulars if you run into any funky stuff. I know the '83 is different than the '82 in terms...

Ok, so I just need to put the belt back on, turn the crankshaft around once, and I'll be back in business!? How crazy that I've never had cause to notice this before in all my belt swaps and timing adjustments over the years! Thank you, Tyler. Perhaps a German cold one, to target particular overacti...

https://www.facebook.com/joshtrost/posts/10153358475790149?pnref=story The top 2 photos are from today; the 3 in the comments are from a few days ago. Is the head installed incorrectly, given the top two photos? If so, am I going to need to remove the head to get the timing right, because the camsha...

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I have pictures from the other day. I'm going to go take some again now of the flywheel and it's position as visible via the bellhousing.

WHAT THE F#$%? Ok, so I rotate the crankshaft until the 0 on the flywheel is directly visible in the tranny bellhousing. Thinking that I want to be CERTAIN that the head and crank timing remain as close to perfect as possible, I remove the valve cover and valve cover gasket. THE GROOVE IN THE BACK O...

Sounds good; giving it a try now while the rain holds off.

Ok, so it's not the belt really that we're speaking about. We're talking about the sprocket on the pump being off. What you guys are describing sounds to me like I need to rotate the pump sprocket clockwise to the point that it is rotated one belt tooth's worth. Does this sound like I am understandi...