Lifted it back up to drop the oil pan,
change the oil pump and fix the torn axle boot.
The oil pump from his old engine had very little wear so I decided to put it back in his fresh engine.
Besides his had the nice metal pickup
instead of the plastic one.
And I had one of my spendy high flow pumps in there.
When I pulled the screen to make sure there was no crap in it
I noticed the pickup was cracked.
The oil pan was pretty banged up,
one of the hits must have cracked the oil pump pickup.
I like saving those old metal pickups so I had another one in good shape.
I forgot to get a picture but I'll take one.
On to the axle.
I removed it and banged the hell out of it trying to get the CV off.
Couldn't do it. First time ever.
I checked to see if it was one of the old clip-on style
doesn't look like it.
Besides it seems to be very loose where the splines go into the CV.
All jiggly.
Haven't seen that before.
Probably why it won't come off.
Cleaned a path through the parts pile
looking through my stash of axles and realized I've been collecting short driver's side ones.
Because they are usually the ones to go bad.
Not many long ones for a MK1.
Found one with the old clips that are hard to remove.
I'm going to see if Bill has one.
I like the factory ones so much better than the aftermarket ones,..
which this one seems to be because after getting under there with a triplesquare
during the engine removal,..
Found out they were torx.
Both of them.
'91 Golf gasser converted to a 12mm pump, M-TDI.
'84 1.6TD Rabbit with a VNT-15 turbo, still setup to run on vegetable oil.
'84 GTI with 1.7TD pistons and intercooled.
2003 TDI wagon
2000 TDI Jetta.