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So I was up till 1:30am this morning working on my G60 wiring disaster with
a friend of mine who is a Freightliner technitian and ended up going 2 steps
backwards.  This is almost getting more frustrating than our previous 16V
CIS-E conversion.

I have seen and posted before about an add for a 81 primered black
scirocco for $250 off Craig's List, I think the post is still up:
<http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/car/299733797.html>
So Sean and I go to take a look since the add said "Requires attention from
a DRIVER..or an ENTHUSIAST with mechanical skills" and that describes both
of usto a tee.  So it is suppose to turn over but not get fuel but new pump
was installed.  We gather up essential parts like tool box, electronic
distributor with brain and wires, battery, charger, timing light, cap,
wires, compression tester, fuel pump bridge and head off to the OC (Oregon
City that is).  Get there and the car was originally Indiana Rot but PO
badly applied coat of rattle can primer that looks like ass.  It previously
had AC but was in the process of being deleted and they did not have any
heater core in it.  Missing front carpet, seats are ok but faded and dirty,
no rear tray (imagine that), cracked windshield and no front bumper.  Rust
was found in usual places but not too extreme.  Body in rough condition with
slightly bowed out hood, dents in rear corners near tail lights and improper
jacking bulges in floor pans.  The good points were a set of 16" unknown
rims with bald tires, spare grill in trunk and a clean title.  Sean and I
talk about it and think we could get it running easily.  I tell the guy I
might give him $200 for it but that I can't do it for the condition it is
in.  He says will you give me $150 for it and I cave.  Bad thing is I did
not check but assumed it had a 5 speed and the seller even said it did but
it turned out to be a 4 speed with a EC engine.  Oh well.

So Sean and I ask if we can work on it to see if we could get it running and
he say OK.  Timing was off due to loose tensioner which we thought had a
stripped nut since it would not tighten.  Fuel pump was not turning on so we
jumpered across it and it started humming.  Throw in the electronic
distributor and realized we forgot to grab the coil for it, damn.  Vaccum
line off of head was not plugged and the CSV plug was cut off and the wires
were hanging already stripped.  Also was missing a hose clamp on the upper
water hose line at the head side.  So it is back to my house to get more
parts and my offspring.

The 3 of us return and it just starts pouring rain and thankfully we were
able to push the beast under the car port.  So we replace the coil, crimp on
connectors since there were none for the coil wires, ran a new wire to the
coil to delete the white and violet resistor wire, butt on a new plug for
the cold start, installed hose clam and Sean replaced and reconnected some
wires on the fuse block.  The belt tensoner stud was coming loose becuse the
threads were stripped out in the head, crap.  So I reversed the stud and put
the end with the most threads in hoping it would go in further to some
remaining threads.  I was able to get it in further and it tightened up but
this left the tensioner further out from the head and the belt was just at
the edge of the pullies.  Turned it over and it fired up.  A little twist of
the distributor had it purring like a 26 year old kitten.  Not bad for about
3 hours of work.  So Sean got the job of limping her home and I followed in
my 79.  Was fun driving the 25 miles back with expired tags and out of state
plates with multiple cop cars passing and even a SWAT van that were off to
some big emergency.  The 16x7 rims were on the rear only and they have
215-55-16 tires on them so they were rubbing badly on the rear springs.
There were multiple times where I could smell the rubber burning of of them
:)  But all light and signals worked and even both wipers started working.

So here is some photos of the new addition to the brood: <
http://picasaweb.google.com/ydrogs/81SciroccoBlack>
Looks like it might already have a home with Sean's girlfriends daughter who
is looking for her first car.  This world needs more female scirocco owners.

And here are some photos of all 5 and Sean's green rabbit hidden in the
middle of them: *<*http://picasaweb.google.com/ydrogs/SciroccoFleet>
Hard to see the red 80s behind the cherry picker which is the next rebuild
after the silver G60.  Have a great rest of the weekend all.
-- 
Gordy
MK1 x 5