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I am missing my old mk2 at the mo, but don't tell anyone! :ignore: :cuckoo:

Hi team, could someone go onto VAGCAT or some such, then REAR AXLE BEAM WITH ATTACHMENT PARTS and tell me what items 2, 18 and 19 are? I thought they were bearings but on the picture all the stuff to the right of the disc are the bearing items I think. Any help appreciated, just drafted up a HUGE list of suspension bits and bobs (1 A4 page long) and trying to work out where I can get good stub axles from, VW seem to want £75 each which is a joke! Discs and pads are easy to do, as are handbrake cables, Brake Pressure Reg is prob gonna be £££ as is it's bracket. I think apart from the mystery items I almost have a full set of parts. Cheers, Jon.

Yeah, 4-2-1manifolds are harder than 4-1s when trying to line them up because of the extra piping. Other option is to get something like Milltek, they're good but about £300 last time I looked :shock:

Glad you got it sorted Alex, you know you can drive the car without a supercharger right? ;) prob makes about 65hp! :lol:

Looks like it's a Mk2 style one. I guess if you have a tuned up 16v then it's a reasonable badge to use!

Not really, but then again it's a Corrado...with 190k on the clock...a slightly iffy engine swap....and it only cost £400.

i like it. what's it from?

Pics of the impeller whilst in situ. Looks plastic doesn't it? Apparatus for thermostat test. Oven thermometer ftw! Random vacuum pipe. No prizes for which manifold this was touching. Now replaced; hoping that will cure a low rpm hesitation i've been having at cold (mainly pulling away at idle) More pictures as and when.

central locking pump is in the boot, on the driver side wheel arch. it's underneath the carpet and contained within a foam "box" which splits in half. sounds like the vacuum for the C/L is going a bit funky. take the doorcard off and investigate if i were you. Also, when you changed the door handle did you plug the 2-pin red and black connector back into the connector on the inside of the door?

do you know if this works on fronts? i need to replace the seals on my 280s.

you might damage the thread on the piston or the pin it threads onto if you lever them out. just twist them anti-clockwise when they start to get loose.

:salute: I would hate to injure your beloved ferrets just to prove a point, although you could skewer them much better on the oem aerial :ignore: I'll get my coat.

Mate, I don't think it needs cutting back at all. It just needs a wash :nuts: glad you're still getting on with it though, are you planning a black and white theme?

Which pump do I need? 037121010C - 118.5 Euros (~£90) 037121010BX - 65.8 Euros (~£50) Will the difference be the impellor? both pumps come with sealing washer but without pulley, stat or "adaptor whatever that is (flange perhaps?) Jon.

water pumps are exchange items? good to know :salute: well the thermostat opens fine, did the stove test and it was definitely open by 90degrees, stamp says it starts opening at 87. the flange isn't cracked although the o-ring could do with being replaced. whilst the impeller was clear, I sent in my reconnaissance unit aka camera phone :lol: to get pics of the blades. they all look intact (i'll upload when I dig out the cable) but it DOES have a plastic impeller (as the blades are not rusty and the middle spigot of the impellor is - spare pump has a fully rusty impellor...but i don't think i'll use it!) is it safe to run the car from cold with the impellor open like that or is that just #1 bad idea of the day? That would at least tell me if the impellor is impelling :nuts:

Cool, cheers Jon. I'll have a look into that. Had a look at the engine yesterday, the oil is a little blacker (probs from higher temps causing carburisation) but still has the right consistency which is good. Car starts up and idles as well as it always used to (with a dodgy ignition switch and no thermotime sensor for the ISV! :nuts: must sort that out) so I'm confident nothing major has happened. If I can literally stretch that far, I will run a compression test by myself. Gonna go and pull the radiator and stat out now, flush out the rad with the garden hose and inspect it plus check the stat with the classic blue peter stove test! :lol:

^^ is it really that hard taking it off? i took a column and box off in not much time at all.

it's probably slack in the cable, i know mine is adjusted so that the slightest pressure on the pedal means the TB is opening. I didn't push the car at all last night so i'm probs just plain wrong! more likely it's working fine, but i'm just used to n/a engines :nuts:

No idea if you can do that in AutoCAD, sounds like something quite complicated to model. Best bet would be to ask the guy who did a 3d render of a Corrado, try using the seach function.

If you get one, I will impale a small ferret on it.

yeah I've always used the mk2 golf one, interesting to hear the passat is similar though. Golf one won't cover the 9a engine for obvious reasons.

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febi water pumps are £20! for some reason I thought they were gonna be like £100. Think i'm getting confused with PAS. (Sidenote: seriously considering a manual rack now. Had enough with all this pipe gubbins, and the guns seem to be able to handle a dead pas rack so a manual rack should be like baloons! :lol:)

Cheers toad, sounds like a very good idea. I'm just speccing up the rear beam parts list (rebuild before term starts might be pushing it though) so I could add the pump to that order. @Bro, drove well tonight. I could still feel a little hesitancy when I put my foot down at any speed. Whether that's the cable needing adjustment or that the SnS isn't 100% lag free I don't know but it drove quite well. Definitely handles a lot better than mine although the PAS actually working did throw me off a little! Weighted gearchange (or "snick snick" as I like to call it) was very nice, hardly any effort needed to find the next cog. Low down torque made for effortless acceleration too, I barely past 2000rpm tonight and just pulls really nicely. Did a 60-80 in 4th on the way home coming out of the 50mph botley section and it pulled like my 16v albeit with a fair wedge more torque! Nice ride :grin:

Good to see you're getting on with sorting the VRS out! (are you gonna add the S to your username? :norty:) we should have a winter get together, maybe when Ron isn't being a little teapot :lol: :cuckoo: