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LC5F's Graphite Blue GTI - Pilgrimage to Caffeine & Machine
Stupots:
@LC5F I'm trying to work out if your car or mine is more of a "Trigger's Broom" than mine... probably a lot of cars on here are.
I've replaced:
Front bumper/grill
Engine/Turbo
Battery
Seats/Door cards
Tailgate
Cluster
Steering Wheel
CAN Gateway
Head Unit
AC Controls
Glove compartment
Wheels
Shocks/Springs
Front and rear brakes (disks and calipers)
Still have in stock and ready to replace
Fuel filter + housing
Intercooler
Front alloy wishbones + Hubs
Anti-rollbars
Uprated turbo
I do think the Mk5 is hard to beat. I've owned mine 6 years and have no intention of replacing it... Well maybe bit by bit :grin:
I always look forward to your updates, keep us updated :happy2:
LC5F:
--- Quote from: Stupots on August 18, 2021, 08:52:19 am ---@LC5F I'm trying to work out if your car or mine is more of a "Trigger's Broom" than mine... probably a lot of cars on here are.
--- End quote ---
LOL - yeah I think we are close, but I've not done much body or interior, so you are winning there!
Managed to get my injectors and head back today:
Injectors all serviced and cleaned, I provided the VW service kits and the fitted it all together, provided a report on before and after flow rates, all 4 came up on the dynamic flow, static one stayed the same, 2 had a 0.85% increase and last one 1.69% increase - not much but good to know they are healthy:
Head has been rebuilt -
I tried buying a used head on ebay, but judging by the smashed plastic in the intake and 3 cam journals galled - the engine it came from must have been in an accident and got starved of oil. I was offered a replacement, but decided to rebuild my original head using the valves off the ebay one:
The engine builder really enjoys cleaning stuff:
LC5F:
Hopefully got the last parts required this morning from TPS, arriving home I got stuck into assembling the head:
It went well everything went together, used Graphogen assembly lube on all the moving bits and the cam cage sealed up with the Victor Reinz sealant.
Installing the new ceramic seals for the VVT hydraulics was not hard at all.
Cam chain was a bit tricky needing both cams turning - watched a lot of YT films, really don't understand why people reach for grips when an 18mm spanner will turn the cams.
The hope of installing the head this weekend has been scuppered by the weather and the realisation the polydrive bit I got for the cam bolt is too big to clear the cams or even fit inside the head casting - so yet another special tool has been ordered - 3 days postage so fingers crossed for next weekend.
This is the current state of the assembled head:
Close up on the open valves with 3 angle ground valves:
LC5F:
The rain finally stopped, it took till early afternoon before it dried out enough to get under the Golf.
As I am waiting on the head bolt tool + I have sent the turbo turbine away for balancing too - I have to try to get ahead on the tasks while I wait.
So today it was the sump and oil pick-up -
Currently the engine is in a state ready for head & timing belt to be installed - so the engine mount if off and the block supported by a spare rear spring under the sump, so I had throw the engine mount back on finger tight and sump unbolted - the bolts hidden up next to the flywheel are a PITA!
My driveway has an incline + Golf is on axle stands under the subframe, despite this I was surprised how much oil was still in the sump:
550ml - no wonder my oil goes black so quickly with that much still in the sump, probably a 1/4 of a litre in the vacuum pump too:
Crud and varnish build up all around - black sealant around the bolt holes suggests someone non-VW has been in there, I wonder what they were doing?:
After a lot of scrubbing with the degreaser it was clean:
Pick up had the usual build up:
Soaking in degreaser:
All clean:
New O-ring, thread lock and back on:
I have to say I really don't enjoy RVT gasketting - I stress about putting too little or too much and then when it comes to assembly it always seems 50/50 for something going wrong - the cam cage yesterday was fine, but this time I managed to catch a little of the sealant on the plastic oil guide thing next to the oil pump at the front of the block... lets just hope its sealed.
G-olf:
Looking good, bet you can't wait to be up and running again :smiley:
Sump and pick up pipe clean is also on my list. Had much sealant squeezed out on the inside when you took it apart?
Did the pick up gauze clean up fairly easy?
At least it will have chance to set nicely as you don't have to run the engine straight after.
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