deamon90002004 10 Posted November 15, 2013 hey all, im feeling like my g60 1991 just doesn't have the power it first had when i first got it, a couple months ago (yes i did go from a 1.6 golf driver 1990, so a bit of a jump) but on the way home, i had a vito van follow me down the a38 and i put my foot down and the van was keeping up with me, yet i've pulled away gradually in the past, same with some other cars recently, i've had to replace a fuel rubber going into the injector rail and a pipe coming out the other end into the sensor, and a vaccum pipe coming off the inlet manifold into the possibly the vaccum for the fuel rail? last night i looked at all my fluids i went from having a max oil level to min in a couple months and gone very dark even after the top up, and my coolant is below where it has been over the last couple months too, i start the car and i get some white smoke (possibly water) coming out the exhaust (mainly cos it's cold) but when the engine is up to temp, i get a small misting of white cloud behind me when i put my foot down, the car is due a service at 111421 miles, and im not sure when the charger was last serviced, but all i know is the belt is 22mm wide on the charger (so possibly been serviced and had the extra wide belt put on) would you say it is due for a service, like oil, air, fuel, and maybe supercharger being sent off too? (could vw service the charger?) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steveo29 0 Posted November 16, 2013 good service will never hurt ...but keep an eye on the coolant level as the headgasket might be going or a leak that needs fixing as much as wel love these cars theyre not that fast compared to modern stuff no vw will wont look at the charger , theres a guy on here that rebuilds them Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt@OCD 0 Posted November 16, 2013 Yeah sounds like it just needs some loving fella! A good service will be a good start, probably end up with rebuilding most of the engine though just it's all fresh again. Standard tune no they're not mega quick, mine was a little quicker than an ST170 focus for a base which I thinks about fair for a good running standard G60. Supercharger will have a 12mm belt if been rebuilt, I do servicing on them as well as any other general parts for them :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deamon90002004 10 Posted November 18, 2013 i think it just needs a big service, and the belt i have on (which i measured with a vernier gauge) is 19mm wide, and i've seen on the net, there is a company that supplies the belt as a kit http://www.bahnbrenner.com/media/php/catalog.php?pid=618 but will certainly give it a big service (about 2/3k miles till it's next service) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt@OCD 0 Posted November 19, 2013 Nice! I've not yet seen the wide belt kit, but it's something we're looking into ourselves too :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites