Engine pull surprise...

[mk1mark at gmail.com (Mark F.)]

The weather has been a little cooler than usual over the last two
days, so I set out to finish stripping the last bits off of the
wrecked 16v and get it the hell out of my parking spot.  I also need
the entire power steering system to swap into the mTDI Caddy before
the engine goes in (soon!).  Everything was going smoothly, and I was
actually having a good time of it.  I was even labeling the entire
harness, and taping off any hose or orifice to keep crap out.  The
engine was clear of anything attaching it to the chassis, so I started
to remove the front and rear engine mounts before hooking up my
Cheapass(R) engine brace.  Good thing I came in from the side to
unhook the rear mount cause this happened:

<http://home.cogeco.ca/~mardak/uhoh.jpg>
<http://home.cogeco.ca/~mardak/mountless.jpg>

There was quite a bit of bent and twisted metal around the tranny
mount area, so I didn't notice the problem beforehand...  In the pic,
the only things holding the engine/tranny up on the driver's side were
the power steering lines (of course the ones I needed for the Caddy!)

So to the tranny experts of the list, can I just swap out the 5th gear
cover with another, or are they "matched" to the tranny?

Amazingly, the mint Earl's oil cooler survived the accident (also
going on the Caddy):
<http://home.cogeco.ca/~mardak/Earls_cooler.jpg>

* gratuitous Yaro pic (keeping the idiot bingoloids at bay!):
<http://home.cogeco.ca/~mardak/yaro_on_guard.jpg>

Later,

Mark.
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82 Caddy - mTDI swap in progress
91 Jetta Coupe