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An update, actual Scirocco content



Typical Saturday on the list.  I was lost at wench.

Erik
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 7:54 AM
Subject: An update, actual Scirocco content


> Well, I've spent the last few days with one Miss Carrots, (Drew's Turbo
> Diesel Scirocco). Anyway, last time Carrots and I had a heart to heart, 
> she
> told me she wanted some bolt on goodies, as she'd been requesting them for
> some time. So this trip was about "the extensive intermediate shaft seal
> replacement", the type that requires a bigger clutch. :)
>
> As it turns out, the bigger clutch was located in his Bunny truck, up in
> the barn. (Now there's an image that will send many off into fantasy land,
> sunlight streaming through the spaces in the boards, onto a dusty
> treasure....stop it right now, I'm telling a story...) Anyhow, this truck
> was wedged in so tight amongst various farm implements, "vintage
> electronics" and other A1s that jacking it up actually lifted the Jetta
> next to it. Many tool trips later, the clutch was out. It's nice to have
> two engine slings, so the truck's engine is still hanging, not for long I
> expect. As usual Drew's extensive use of the "french language", my
> expertise as "crank wench" and a few cold beverages assisited in the
> extraction. Back off to Carrots in the shed....things went along really
> well (what's wrong with THAT??), it still floors me how much cross species
> hybridization the good folks at VW thought to design for, you can take A1
> bits and bolt them onto A3 bits, and they seem to fit pretty well most
> times, with a few exceptions. And if you see Carrots, make sure you grab a
> mirror and look at the gorgeous new oil line to the turbo, it's the
> prettiest bit of jewellry she wears, and you can hardly see it unless
> you're underneath her, as it runs on the firewall side of the block.
> Hopefully I'll have a nice 8X10 glossy B&W photo of it from below. Okay,
> enough rambling, she's not back on the ground yet, but her axles are back
> in, and the new "intermediate shaft assembly" is in place, so that's
> progress. As usual, the hospitality was fantastic, and it was a good
> "weekend before the weekend". In case you wondered if we work up here in
> Canada, it was a holiday, "National Diesel Day", followed by "National
> Scirocco Day". Yep, we live in the best country eh?
> On a side note, my daily diesel decided to try out being a four speed on
> the trip up, I gave it a firm talking to with my hands on the cable ends,
> and it seems to be working, but that will need looking at (I'll have the
> engione cover off later today anyway). I figured the plastic end had
> cracked again, but it seems intact. Who knows.
> So now I'm off to look at Mazdas with the spouse, and back to my own cars
> for the remainder of the weekend hopefully.
> That's about it for now, yeah, it was significant progress, Carrots needs
> to go to Cincy eh?
> Cathy
>
>
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