oohhh samco's! treated the G!

[SIMONG 0]

treated her to some new samco's! boring blue but was all excited when they came!

 

think it might be a while before i fit them, gonna get new flanges and rad. and think it will get flushed before there changed to.

 

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[DanVW 0]

Do yourself a favour and strip out the rad to give yourself the room to fit them properly, the Two 3-way pipes that go between the waterpump, thermostat and oil cooler are a complete bitch to get on and off with everything in place :-)

[SIMONG 0]

Cool cheers for the advice.

 

Want to put a new rad on at the same time so that sholud help with the extra room. Also will be doing it on a ramp will should help a bit.

[Supercharged 2]

Yeah, complete arse to fit - be very careful when cutting these down to the correct lengths and also not to overtighten the clamps onto plastic flanges - would replace these when fitting too.

[SIMONG 0]

yeah gonna get new flanges to, rad block and thermostat housing including all washers from VW £42

[DanVW 0]

May be worth a new Water Pump while your in there, would make fitting easier and they are fairly cheap for such an important part 8)

 

I fitted my Samcos Two years ago now and I still havent done the Heater Matrix pipes as Im still recovering from the nightmare of getting those water pump pipes on.... :gag:

[SIMONG 0]

yeah will do the water pump but was gonna wait till put a new cambelt on. ideally would like to get it cam'ed up and do the pump and belt all in one go.

[DanVW 0]

Sounds like a plan 8) you done the Crank bolt replacement yet? If not get that done at the same time.

 

Cheers

 

Dan

[SIMONG 0]

nope not done that. but if its advisable then will get it done. are the available from VW??

[mimjed 0]

yep they sure are. original part has been hardened as they tend to snap.

 

not much fun to change them without a decent air gun.