Engine pull surprise...

[peter at thescirocco.com (Peter)]

Yes, but I'd swap in another doubled up clutch lever type, or you could swap
that over to the replacement housing.

Peter 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark F. [mailto:mk1mark@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 11:27 PM
To: Scirocco-l
Subject: Engine pull surprise...

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.
75
82
82 Caddy - mTDI swap in progress
91 Jetta Coupe

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