This thing on?

[johncworden at verizon.net (John C. Worden)]

Just something to point out to all of you.  If you are throwing away metal 
parts that are useless to you they are worth something as scrap.  A friend 
of mine and I have hauled scrap metal(we both had lying around and others 
that wanted stuff gone) and made $490 for two partial days.  Not bad for junk.

John

At 09:56 AM 7/30/07, Dan Bubb wrote:

>Well, like I posted on Vortex (bad Dan!) I swapped in the high mileage 
>Konis off of my 84 (the 84 getting H & R coiliovers) onto my POS 16V along 
>with a slightly lengthened front upper spring cap. So, I finally got rid 
>of that wham-bam ride harshness with the front end sitting on the bump stops.
>
>I'm on one of my 3 year missions to throw away everything that I thought 
>I'd need but haven't used in three years. Thank my employers for the 
>dumpster at work that has transfered probably the equivalent of one 
>complete Scirocco over the years (and maybe a Jetta or two).
>
>Working on rebuilding a turbo for Brian McGarvey and the GRM boys. All the 
>pieces are nicely cleaned up and bead blasted only to find out the turbine 
>housing has had fairly massive welded repairs to it, the center section 
>has a nice chunk busted out of the side of it, the compressor housing 
>doesn't fit on its backing plate and I can't get the turbine side piston 
>ring seal to go in the damn hole! But hey! This thing will probably have a 
>running life of maybe 5 hours, so whatever.
>
>Next is to get the 16V AC working, get the heater to actually turn off and 
>get the recirculation flap to close. For some reason I cannot get AC 
>systems to work so thanks to Brian Wagner for all the tips and pointing me 
>in the right direction.
>
>The 84 turbo is once again being neglected. I suspect it will never be 
>roadworthy again.
>Dan


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