Dr. Robotnik

Yeah they are attached with the lugs that go in holes with them little blue things on the back. Mine came off though, but I stuck them back on with Tigerseal, so I'd recommend just using that. It won't come off, not for a long time at least :)

Surely then though the inside edge would be turning slower than the outside edge, and just cause a world of problems?....

Mines quite heavy too, averaging about 22mpg combined. Crazy.

Very sorry to hijack the thread, but if this isn't needed by anyone I will happily purchase it from you :D Also, isn't the bolster sort of reinforced with metal bits? Could they not be welded back on to the seat frame thingy?

lmao thanks, I chose such name to try and get more people to look at it. Plenty of views but I reckon they're all like you, after some taboo story!

Yeah cheers. I just cleaned up the contacts on my rotor arm/dizzy cap after leaving the battery off for an hour and so far it's looking alright. I've got a new metering head on the way from Matty123 if I can't get this working, if I can, oh well it's always good to have a spare! I tried unplugging the throttle switch plug thingy and it wouldn't start or anything then, quite worrying. At first I thought it was to do with the WOT switch but after sorting out the head a bit I'm now left with just an annoying flat spot! What I did was loosen the screw at the back of the flap arm thingy on the pivot to see if i could get it off and see if there were any dirt marking on the mixture screw, but no such luck, it does't come off like that But the pivot arm seems to be connected to some sort of potentiometer that probably went out when I fiddled with it. I put it back to closed position earlier and sorted it luckily, but it still aint perfect! Regardless, thanks for your input :D

Okay never mind, I dismantled the metering head and put all back together as accurately as possible, now it's fine high end but there's a massive flat spot at about 2800 now :/ Still thinking just replace and be done is probably the best way.

Shameless Thursday self-bump :)

Saw a Black VR in Launceston this afternoon. Can't remember reg. But don't often see many round here ;)

Hmm also it seems other people have had the same problem with WOT, something to do with the lambda sorts out the fuelling until wot, but at wide-open it's entirely down to the CO potentiometer so still seems fuelling problems :/

Yeah thanks, I was considering going to a garage today and asking to use their gas meter, but they'd probably tell me that only they can use it and I must pay them many hours labor to do the job for me :) And I thought it could well be ignition components, though they're all in good condition and were absolutely fine before I started fiddling. However, it seems that if I gradually open the throttle it'll rev all the way to the redline, it's only at wide open throttle that it backs off at 4k, you really feel a jolt when it happens while driving! I'll check out my leads and dizzy etc anyway though! Thanks!

Hey, right, my car had been running a little bit lean for a while and I remember reading about adjusting the fuel mixture with the screw on top of the metering head Now after that I've read that the 9a's motronic shouldn't be messed with because, and as I am testament to this, you'll break it :) However, mine was missing the tamper resistant seal, so felt I had to investigate :D I've been fiddling for the past couple of days with varying success, until today when I decided to see if I could get the head apart at all to see if I could put the screw exactly where it was before, it didn't give me any indication of where it was previously (it was equally caked in dirt) so I put it back together, defeated. At first I was getting problems where it'd stutter up to about 2500 rpm and then rev freely after that (not nice trying to cross a dual carriageway like that! Kinda like having ignition timing way out) but now there's a different problem, in that it'll rev better than ever up to about 4000rpm and then suddenly stop, not a gradual loss of power, sorta like a rev limiter kicking in but a bit more angry sounding. Fiddling with the mixture further makes no difference to this behaviour, and I am lost for ideas other than to replace the whole metering head (So if anyone has one cheap, intact, and unmolested, I will happily take it off your hands :D) Lesson learned I guess. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Anyway, I look forward to your replies. Cheers!

Bit of wood underneath, drill holes in the ends and stick some dowel in it :D That's what's on mine, at least.

I think it's the same with most Volkswagens, if not all, in general, isn't it? I mean, my golf was the same, messing with my head as to why i had to swap the yellow and red over D: I have an alpine head unit too and it's never caused me any trouble, but i did have to wire a set of iso connectors into the car because some numpty that fitted the stereo had cut all the wires and soldered onto the connector for their head unit... But the crazy thing is they soldered a seperate wire from the stereo earth directly onto the cigarette lighter illumination live, which ended up blowing fuses and burning the dash illumination tracks inside the clocks. Crazy what goes through some peoples minds... Sorry, a bit off topic :D

I'm in Launceston, Cornwall ;D Not too far from you, at least, though not quite Devon...

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I hear of people using mercedes sprinter wing vents, would it be?

Also interested in this!

Shameless self bump ;D

Firstly I apologise if someone else has already had this problem or I am looking too far into it, I have used the search but nothing came up, but feel free to point me in the right direction :D Well, ever since I got the car, the ABS light would come on after driving about 5ft down the driveway, I checked all the abs sensors with a multimeter, all showing about 1100~ ohms, but the other day I noticed there was a thick red wire tucked underneath the battery (?) so reconnected, and the ABS light stayed off! (Probably the ABS pump or something? Or perhaps that's why vag-com wouldn't connect to the abs ecu) But now, it seems when I hit 45mph and the spoiler starts going up, the ABS light comes on. Sometimes It'll wait till about 50mph but it's always between 45-50 the light comes on, am I right in thinking these are related or am I barking up the wrong tree? (I've checked fuse 16, that's all good, as you'd expect if the lights and spoiler worked) However there is considerable corrosion on the multi-pin plug into the abs ecu itself (The windscreen had a pretty bad leak when I got it) I cleaned that all up, didn't really make a difference, but would it be water in the abs ecu itself causing it to have a hissy fit and best to replace that anyway? Or where should I start? :) Sorry for the rambling, I explain myself well, don't I :D I look forward to your replies! Cheers! Ben.

Got passed by a red VR (?) heading up the A30 Eastbound just next to Launceston, probably heading back from RTTS? Didn't get plate, but I was the K reg valver with blacked out windows that flashed you :)

Cheers! Just a small track on the head between cylinder 2 and a water gallery, so cams, tappets and valves out to get it skimmed tomorrow... The gasket was fine though, so Gasket: 1, Head : 0. Now that sounds familiar. I had the same thing with mine a couple of years ago resulting in much head scratching to figure out why it was overheating (Pre Corrdo Forum days unfortunately). Twenty minutes with a 3 foot by 2 foot sheet of plate glass and some grinding paste sorted it out. 15,000 miles later and it's still as good as the day it was put back together. Total cost, a couple of beers because I was getting sweaty in the shed, but they were in the fridge anyway.[/quote:j2o8eqnf] Oh nice one, i'd never have thought of grinding a head down like that I was thinking this is the perfect time to put KR cams in or a KR head too but I don't have the time to wait for one of them :) We know a chap who will pick the head up, skim and pressure test it and drop back off the same day for £30 cash so that should be back within a couple hours. A good excuse to change the cambelt and everything too I guess ;D

Cheers! Just a small track on the head between cylinder 2 and a water gallery, so cams, tappets and valves out to get it skimmed tomorrow... The gasket was fine though, so Gasket: 1, Head : 0.

oh yeah and the head gasket went as well on the way to mot, so more to get done before saturdah :D

Oh man i'd love to but my insurance doesn't start until the 29th, (my 21st birthday :D), permitting the head isn't cracked or anything like that, and the weekend proves to be busy anyway. Next year for definate :D