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Oh, just more progress



Dammit lady!
You make me feel really lazy!

Today the short block gets assembled with it's new forged pistons and 
installed in the nephew's car. The head will happen later after it gets some 
attention from a die grinder ;^)
And the fuel pump that just died on my 16V will get swapped out for the one 
on my nephew's car while I wait for a new one to arrive from 
Germanautoparts.
And I'm sure a few other things.

But, like I said, I'm feeling lazy. The nephew's going to do all that while 
I drink beer and watch ;^)
Hope you all have a good Scirocco weekend.
Dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 9:41 AM
Subject: Oh, just more progress


> Well, it was a typical day around here yesterday. I was sick of Klaus'
> little "incontinence problem", as he'd been leaking oil. A lot of it. This
> time it was from under the flange for the oil cooler, it's a nice little
> job. Once again, "I'll take VW engineers I'd like to slap for $500, Jim."
> They always bury bolts in clear sight, but not in easy reach. In this case
> three buckets, requiring the removal of the oil filter, oil cooler, the
> threaded rod it's on, and the sensor on the top. Then finally the 
> offending
> flange. Of course the threaded rod wouldn't come off, so I ended up
> draining the coolant to get the cooler off. And I'd managed to bite into
> the threaded rod with the channel locks, so had to do the same on the 
> parts
> Passat to source a new version. I do love how interchangeable the parts 
> are
> on these cars, the Passat's a 91 and Klaus is a 79. Of course his oil
> cooler's from an 84. Anyway, that was the morning.
>
> On a side note, the disastrous Waterfest adventure helped the project a
> lot. New tools from that trip?
>
> 1. The fancy schmancy hose clamp tool, I'd been dying to use it anyway, 
> and
> it rocks. I OWN spring clamps now. They bow before me. Shoulda bought that
> sucker ages ago.
>
> 2. Offset slipjoint pliers, for clamps that are easier to get at with
> pliers.
>
> 3. Super short construction hammer, for driving them Allen bits home in
> tight quarters.
>
> Moral of the story? If you see an oddball tool that you're not sure about?
> Buy it, you'll likely use it.
>
> Lessee, what else? Oh helping the kid bleed brakes on the 2L Rabbit. (I
> find this job goes much better with some Fireball on ice, we have it down
> to a science) Typical, he'd nearly extracted a rotor from the rusty 80
> parts car, since he'd "looked" and couldn't figure out where the original
> one was. It was hidden in plain sight, right on the shelf. And again, 
> parts
> from the Passat came in handy. A steering wheel nut. Same for both cars.
> And clutch cable attachment hardware from who knows what. He'd lost that
> too.
>
> The Cabby's back on the road, after I threw in the towel and had it towed.
>
> And the POS Jetta's been measured for new ground cables, the kid's too 
> lazy
> to be bothered I guess. And I have to get the correct starter bolt into 
> the
> 16V today too, and a fuel filter for Klaus, none are big jobs.
>
> They really keep me hopping eh?
>
> That's it for now, maybe I'll relax and wash some of them today. And go 
> for
> a drive ;)
>
> Cathy
>
>
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