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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Haribo! on 12 April 2006, 20:06
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ive been busy today attempting to put my gti head on my driver and i have to say its gone very well so far, got it off, drilled the hole in the gti head for the coolant channel, bolted it all back together, then i snapped that bolt with the teeth that holds the alternator to the bracket..... so ill get another tomorrow and i should be finished, then i can see if its faster and also if ive missed anything and it blows up, i really should take a corse of some sort
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ah good luck!
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cheers, im nackered, im not cut out for all this mechanic stuff, ide been at it for 8 hours strait before i decided ide done enuf and ached too much
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haha well im sure it will be worth it in the end!
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nah i reckon its gonna die on me, im convinced in fact
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dont think like that!if i thought like that then mine would be even worse than it i now lol!
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yours will be LOADS better when you buy those sill extensions off me :wink: itll go faster too
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Haribo
For someone that isn't a mechanic or minded U've done a decent job so far, hopefully all goes well, on teh cambelt question i would cahnge it now prior to firing the plant up, and while your at it change the tensioner as well :smiley:
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Cheers systemseiko :smiley:
right just picked up th efinal parts, timing belt, tensioner, carb mount and that bolt for the alternator, just need to stop being lazy and get my ass out side
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Awesome, how hard was the coolant hole to sort?
Pics?
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didnt get any pics but it was stupidly easy, twas really easy to drill thru bent abit of coat hanger while in the hole on the old head to give me my angle when i lined it up on th eother head, first drilled a little hole, went down until it broke thru, you could feel it as it went really easy all of a sudden, then did the same with a bigger drill bit then sprayed sh!t loads of carb cleaner in there to get rid off all the metal, really easy
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cool!
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dont it all, car doesnt work, just makes the "im trying to start but i cant noise" its getting petrol, all the TDC stuff was right.... ive done all i know how to do so im trying to get hold of my mechanic mate and with any luck hell get it running.....
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k, only thing to remember is that the ignition timing needs to be set to 6 degrees BTDC when you get it running, not 19 like on the old driver head.
Basically from now on you use 1.8 GTI settings/spark plugs etc :)
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holy hell!!! its working, thanks to my mate and some good advice from rubjonny :smiley: cheers
it wasnt working because the crankshaft was ...... bollocks i cant remember, it made sence at the time anyway, but hey it works and its fricking fast and i havent even had it tuned up yet!!!! well worth the effort! :smiley: :cool:
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sweet!! Hope it all works well now and keeps goin!
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good work dude its a nice feeling when you do sumik like that off your own back!just put a new engine in mine on my own in a day!hell of alot of work also fitted new clutch new followers,cam belt and tensioner and now im getting that,,,,,i wanna start but i dont know how to sound!got my mechanic mate coming tomoz morning to sort the valve timing i think ive got it all arse about face! hope yours is all good dude !
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HAHA, now my water pumps broke and all my water pisses strait out that hole with the bearing in it.....had to get towed home by the untrusty AA so another week to wait while i get a new pump sent to the vw garage, gotta love life with a car
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i just want to stress how good an idea it is to do what i just did, its SOOO much faster, even tho i have a buggered pump i couldnt help but cram as much water into it as i could and give it another quick ragg!!! love it!!!