Turning the key after major work is the best bit indeed
hehe yes yes yes
Your a goer and the car will be too, all the best of luck.
Thank you!! Hope it moves soon enough!
You know that the clutch-releaser is -again- available through Sachs for a reasonable price? (Now "made in China" )
I'm not surprised, the Germans are getting slack for their quality, even though they have been making their products out of the country; in Slovakia as MRichards said.
Anyway..
Just been focusing on my uni, given I have less than two months left and working on the Masa for a few hours during each weekend, have gotten to the stage of well.. You'll see
Anyway, parts have arrived, all three boxes; Eurospares and Germany finally
Unpacked on Saturday and checked the list off for all. Missing two items that were on the list(one on and one was left out? no idea why but ok) and the total balance isn't correct..
Anyway, the Borg and Beck clutch kit seems pretty good, Flywheel has been machined down too, so that is all ready to go back on.
Is this blue case actually the OEM piece? or just the half alternative
Anyway, test fit to see how the new bits go, and well. Looks brand new already HAHA.
Now to find the RHS bonnet grill, given there are no other options. Have enquired to have it 3D scanned to obtain a model, and then mirror it and get it printed. May not be OEM but that's the next best solution.
Once that arrives, well they can get painted along with both mirrors and to correct the bonnet and fix it up for the small cracks on the top and underneath.
So then I decided, let's have a look inside the engine, shouldn't be bad at all! And honestly, happy that I have!
The headgasked on the right was the warning and well, told me that the other side might be as bad if not worse, but it ended up being ok-ish, other than the studs being very uh.. milky? That ain't right oh nonono
I'm trying to remove the dowel in the crank to remove the oil cover, it's not budging and I have no better idea how to remove it, will see tomorrow evening. Anyway the rear thrust bearings look good, will measure everything up and check up what's going on. Potentially pistons out to measure the walls and make sure they're going to live for a decently long time!
So really, the next part is just removing the two broken bolts in the waterpump and start rebuilding! Need to make one more order for gaskets, seals for the bottom end, both belts and the one bearing that died. The parts that madmanmart is getting sorted and should be good to go soon enough.
As for the electronics, given I got the loom, upon studying it there is a major difference and well.. I doubt this loom will work with this ECU.. SOO, there might be some chopping and crimping from the old and new combining them together to make one good working loom. I say this is doable, because it's only the coilpack and injector section that's fried on the original loom. The right hand side is all intact, it was all good. So I'll do some reading and mapping the colours to make sure I can do it before I even bother.
Whilst sorting the engine, I'll start working on the engine bay to get that tidy from the rest of the fire retardant and prep it for painting, clean it up before 800grit wetsanding. A nice fresh coat of black will do nicely
Think that's all for the moment, will go check on the interior pieces tomorrow, see how they are going(and hand in one more piece over to be worked on).
Also dropped the fuel lines off to Pirtek to get remade, and tomorrow they go to Woody's Hydroblast to bring back to their original condition. Also a few other items too so they can be all done up nicely!
I probably forgot a few things, but that's most of it
Cheers