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You can get replacement High Pressure Fuel Line from Halfords if you need it quick. I think the Internal diamter is 7.6mm, and it's about £6.99 per pack. You need 2 packs to do both hoses. VW want c.£70 I think for the same hoses.yep, halfords even sell it by the metre, works out a bit cheaper.
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nice motor mate, good to capture those shocks before they deteriorated further at least. i just painted my manifold and covers black and was wondering what they'd look like - now i know, pretty damn good :)
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there's company's that will resilver them, not cheap, but cheaper than new ones.
make sure you send them to someone who can resilver plastic, a lot of companies can only resilver metal.
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ok, either get the L shape timing tool, or use two bits of 3mm metal to lock the cams with the groove level with the cylinder head. I foget which lobe is supposed to point directly upwards, do you have a bentley?
not\looking forward to doing my guides etc :/ hope it goes smoothly, have you read the bit about cranking over to pressurise the oil before you start up first time again?
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can't you just time them up again once you have the guides etc sorted?
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yeh same as, speedlines are good but the cades edge it in those shots, motors looking sharp.
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crikey that was a momentary shock reading that, good to see you're keeping it!
you can do the rear lines with the beam mounted, i rebuilt mine completely but wanted the rear beam on to make sure the lines didn't foul anything once it was fitted - its a wee bit fiddly but makes one less job.
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fair play if you bring this one back from the brink, £300 for an MOT may be a push though!
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awesome mate and great skills, fair play for doing that in your garage, looks soooper :)
it might have been a drag doing it yourself, but you know for sure nothings been covered up!
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I used a tire lever to lever by newly bushed beam onto the mounts, it didn't require much levering but made me feel that i'd done it right :)
I struggled to get my bushes through, and speaking to a vw mechanic he says a trick of the trade is to slightly grind the leading edge off, it lessens the initial squeeze.
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looking clean and sharp those parts, durty corroded stuff bugs me too :) been meaning to get some of that gel, where did you buy it from?
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4 branches can be a pain to fit, mine was but it was a TSR 4-2-1, yours looks like a 4-1 and looks shorter so may be easier to thread past the bulkhead.
give it a go yourself sure, make sure you have correct connector plates etc beforehand tho!
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i think they can be cleaned ultrasonically, but if they're approaching/ over 100k just buy new ones.
pull each one out in turn and have a look, or do a search for injector spray pattern as davidwort has a how to somewhere.
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cheers, am just chipping away at it very s l o w l y.
should there not be a hole in the body work for the lug on the flap to sit into and lock on?yeh there should be, it could be cut in and i thought about doing it, but in the end i decided not to as i'd just be reintroducing the weak point for rust I had before. not figured how to lock the cap, but i can live with it being unlockable!
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good progress Steve, just look for obvious signs of scoring and pits marks on the cams and tappets, there's other stuff you can check if you have a set of feeler guages, or if you can get a lend of a dial guage.
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only the fuel metering isn't supposed to be adjusted on the 2l, the idle air can be adjusted by the screw on the throttle body.
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yeh as above, i had this on my valver caused by leaky injectors.
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great thread Tom, great to see another derv rado being created, especially at light speed lol :salute:
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never done this before so thought it worth a crack, stripped the hydraulic lifters and cleaned them, easy but fiddly.
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nice, went island hopping round croatia a few years ago, ended up in dubrovnik for a few days at the end. check out the old town quarter at night time, great place to have a few relaxing jars.
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haha brilliant, like the idea keep us updated.
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Jim i pressed mine in using a length of threaded bar with some washers, really doesn't require much force.
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good work mate, refurbed subframe is next on my list.
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can't add much more to what's been said before, maybe another WOW!
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