Guess who joined the 2L club?

[amalventano at sc.rr.com (Allyn)]

now thats funny, exact same stuff happened with the rieger. leaking coolant
and a broken exciter wire. weird. luckily i stuck with stock mounts so
theres no vibrator action for me.
Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie Macfarlane" <juliemac57@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 10:34 PM
Subject: Guess who joined the 2L club?


> I have been assembling the motor for months. A fresh rebuilt bottom end
from
> Josh Able (I can vouch for his big bottom ends  :)  and a rebuilt 1.8 L
> head.
> I started on Friday morning and finished today @ 2:30.
> The guy who lives down stairs from me helped pull the engine and put it
back
> in using a borrowed engine hoist. It really is a two person operation. It
> was harder to get out than in!
>
> Every thing has been cleaned and or wire wheeled and painted. I even
cleaned
> the engine bay and treated the huge rust hole I found. I even got the fly
> wheel on correctly this time! (The PO screwed that up)  I can see TDC!
>
>
> I finished putting oil and coolant in the car, cleaned up the tools and
went
> inside & smoked a cigarette. I came down stairs, did a final check of the
> connections and oil etc, connected the battery and WOW! No smoke. Good
sign!
> Nervously I cranked the engine, it turned three times and started! I heard
> the clanking of the lifters and made a panicky call to Daun for
> re-assurance.
>
> After fixing the flood of leaking coolant, set the timing and we went to
get
> gas. Whelp, I broke the blue exciter wire to the alt. and drained the batt
> getting there. Push start the car and home for a repair.
>
> I added the poly inserts from Adirondac to the pass side and D side motor
> mounts. Man. I felt like I was on the INSIDE of a vibrator. Will addusting
> the timing help at all with this?
>
> Its got 3 miles on the motor now with 200,000 to go   :)
>
> (God I hurt every where)
>
> Julie Macfarlane
> Menlo Park Research & Development
> Internet Application Developer
> www.menloparkrandd.com
> www.montgomeryweb.org
> Amsterdam NY
>
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