Itinerant Air-Cooled

Congratulations and nice work!

It's a great feeling!

Elwood wrote:

=D>

The above says it all!

Congrats, Paige! I'm so proud of you and hopefully I'll be just as proud of myself here in about another month (I'm on a hybrid timeline of Westy78 and poptop tom for engine rebuilds!).

How far you've come and learned so much.
You have earned the right to feel mighty good about yourself.

Good for you.

Joseph

Congratulations! Sounds pretty good too.

Nice work. We'll clink glasses for real in a few days.

Yes! Adjusting the valves and taking her out for a long, gentle drive in a few hours.

Yes please adjust those vavles and post another vid of it running without all that clacking.

Very very nice. Good figgerin on the coil. Enjoy your drive today.

Congrats! Have you done the ring break in yet? Do it soon before you drive it a lot.

OUTSTANDING!!

It's the little things that hang you up or throw you, you never check because, "Nah, it couldn't be...."


neal

Nice job Paige! Yes, break in those rings before driving it anymore. You don't want to glaze the cylinders and have low compression.

Congratulations!! I can only imagine the sense of accomplishment you must feel...this thread inspires me to take on my own rebuild. I just so happen to have a spare 2.0 sitting around... :)

Thank you! It does feel great. I still have some work to do though.

So, I could not get the side nut off of the transmission where you can check the fluid level. Aside from taking it into a VW shop, who could do a sneaky peek in there?

I've found a cheater pipe on the wrench does the trick.


neal

Westy78 wrote:Nice job Paige! Yes, break in those rings before driving it anymore. You don't want to glaze the cylinders and have low compression.

Find a nice low-traffic boulevard, accelerate with some verve from 25 to 40 in 3rd gear and let it slow back down, still in 3rd, for five times. Then just a nice easy bit of steady driving at 30 in 3rd for a mile, then 5 more repetitions from 25-45. Best to change the oil after, so do the ring break-in just before your 100 mile oil change.
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