RE: It's Alive(my 2.0 16V)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gary Huff <ghuff@htech.com>]

Sweet, and I know if I see you will let me drive it right? (grin) 
Thanks,
	Gary Huff

-----Original Message-----
From: Daun Yeagley [mailto:vwdaun@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 9:26 PM
To: John C. Worden
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: It's Alive(my 2.0 16V)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




--- "John C. Worden" <scirocco@midmaine.com> wrote:
> Well today, after work, I went out to the Scirocco and
> brought it to tdc
> and the pulleys were lined up ok(for those who don't know
> I had a backfire
> out the intake yesterday when I tried to start it).  I
> remembered
> everything was lined up when I put it in, including the
> rotor pointing to
> #1 position on the dist. cap; what I stupidly forgot was
> the distributor
> itself had to be lined up too.  Doh!  Well I lined it up
> and she tried to
> catch then.  So I moved the Dist. around until the timing
> light hit the
> notch and then opened the throttle and she caught and
> ran.  After having
> the throttle open halfway for a few seconds a released it
> to idle and it
> was fine(the last time the motor ran was oct '96 when I
> wrecked the car).
> So tomorrow I'll hook up the coolant hoses, install the
> radiator and bolt
> down the computers and things.  BTW I only ran it for
> about 15 seconds
> because the coolant system isn't attached yet.  
> Thanks to all you guys who replied about the timing
> problem, and to Brian
> Honnold for much advice and of course to Potterman(and
> Potterwoman) for
> many, many parts.

Congrats dude!

So it'll be ready for a road-trip to Cincy in the spring,
right?  :)

===
Daun Yeagley
'79 Scirocco
'81 Rabbit Pickup 
'85 Scirocco 8v
'88 Scirocco 16v
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."  - Dave
Barry
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