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Sunday engine pull



how you get on, or are you in jail ;)

john


----- Original Message -----
From: "Neptuno" <neptunonc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Gordy Stedman" <ydrogs@xxxxxxxxx>; <Scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: Sunday engine pull


> This is one of the greatest Monday morning reads I have had in a long
time.
>
>   THANK YOU!!
>
>   EL Tony
>
> Gordy Stedman <ydrogs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   Worlds biggest cherry picker!
> http://picasaweb.google.com/ydrogs/88JETTA/photo#5095312499978558242
> 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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