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Sunday engine pull



That's a great picture! Loving it...and that motor should be fun too. I
imagine that car's not far from the conditions required to get an abandoned
title anyways, you'd wonder why got left there. GL with that endine, hope
it doesn't hold any grudges for being plucked in such a spectacular fashion!
Cathy

On 10:30 pm 08/05/07 "John S. Lagnese" <jlagnese@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe get a letter from the boss stating the sequence of evente to
> CYA! Otherwise this sounds great!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gordy Stedman" <ydrogs@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <Scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 5:17 PM
> Subject: Sunday engine pull
>
>
> >  Worlds biggest cherry picker!
> >  http://picasaweb.google.com/ydrogs/88JETTA/photo#509531249997855824
> 2
> >  So here is the story.  I have been working in Albuquerque for 2
> >  weeks on a new Costco.  The first day I arrived after work hours
> >  and noticed this white
> >  Jetta parked on the job site and did not think much of it.  It
> >  continued to
> >  be parked in the same place day after day.  I thought it was one
> >  of our subcontractors workers car that was broken down.  Last
> >  Friday they were cutting the dirt grade for the parking lot and
> >  noticed they cut around the Jetta so I asked our superintendent
> >  what was up with it.  He told me that it
> >  has been abandoned there for over 2 months while the work on the
> >  job site has been going on for a month.  The plates expired May of
> >  06 and they called
> >  the police to get it removed but the cops said it was not stolen
> >  and on private property so they could not tow it away.  For all
> >  those who think I am a thief he said it was going to throw it in a
> >  dumpster and hauled off by
> >  our disposal company.  I said let me get some things off of it
> >  first before
> >  you junk it.  So I got to check it out to see if there was
> >  anything cool to
> >  take out of it.  I look under the hood and see it is a 1.8l RV
> >  with an ASF tranny with digifag.  Since I am out of spare engines
> >  and I am sick of my AUG tranny and CIS I start thinking of how I
> >  can get it out while still working 10 hours a day.  I ask my boss
> >  if he cares if I pull the engine and
> >  he does not give a shit but thinks I am insane.  They moved the
> >  car next to
> >  our job trailers with a fork lift on Friday to a flat area.  So I
> >  work Saturday and then get off and go to Target.  I get a $20 set
> >  of shitty tools, 2 ratchet straps, bucket of zip ties, shop rags,
> >  junk pair of pants and cheap shirt, hand cleaner and painters tape.
> >  This morning I get there at 8:30am and begin to strip away at the
> >  A2.  I borrowed a set of tools from my boss so that helped out.  I
> >  got everything out and off while it was on the ground but needed
> >  to get under the car to 86
> >  the drive lines and exhaust.  We wrapped a tow strap around the
> >  front sub frame/bumper assembly and used the forklift to lift the
> >  front of the car 6'
> >  up (wish I had a photo of that).  Since I do not travel with a
> >  30mm socket and breaker bar or a 8mm triple square (which I will
> >  now pack every time) we
> >  decided to remove the drive lines with a chop saw since we had one
> >  in our tool inventory.  Tricky getting the 15" blade in there but
> >  it cut thought the solid driver side like butter but also got the
> >  front solid brake line in
> >  the process, oops.  I used a saws all from our carpenters trailer
> >  to cut through the rusty exhaust bolts from the DP to the cat.  We
> >  put the car back
> >  on the ground and wrapped the tow strap around the tranny bell and
> >  used the
> >  pick point on the alternator bracket and lifted the engine up
> >  while I undid
> >  the motor mount bolts.  That bad boy slid right out.  We had a
> >  spare pallet
> >  lying around so we put it on that and I strapped her down around
> >  1pm.  I will push it to the back of one of our containers and wait
> >  till it gets trailered back to Portland.  Here are other pictures
> >  of the process: http://picasaweb.google.com/ydrogs/88JETTA
> >  The engine spun 360 after I pulled out the plugs and the tranny
> >  shifted into
> >  all gears so I am stoked.  I also found a pick-n-pull yard in
> >  Albuquerque that I might hit before the day is over to see if
> >  there is any Scirocco treasures there.  Can not figure out why all
> >  my coworkers want to go to the
> >  casino on their day off when there is so much fun VW stuff to do
> > here :)
> >  PS- I look at this as helping out the environment by recycling a
> >  used engine
> >  to keep another Scirocco alive VS it being grand theft auto.  God
> >  I hope I do not go to jail for being a Scirocco freak.
> >
> >  --
> >  Gordy
> >  MK1 x 5
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