My Bubble nightmare

Technical Topics specific to the Hatchback body - NOT where you post pics/build specs of your car.
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By ngarover
- Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:35 am #350946 got into the engine today.

#4 and #3 spark plugs where half full of oil. #2 had a little. I'm surprised the engine ran at all.

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Sure sighs of a leaking head gasket...

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Got tot he point where I'm ready to break the head away from the block, it's stuck on pretty good. Will work on it tomorrow again and see if I can button it up. Would have gotten further today but had to stop and spend a couple hours fixing a radiator in my e320.

By ngarover
- Sun Jan 11, 2015 11:06 pm #350959 Continuing on...

What a mess...

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The gasket was in pieces, actually dissolved... took me hours to clean it all out and clean everything out, but, sun has gone down and too dark to get pictures, so I'll pop a couple in the am before I goto work. will be Saturday before I can work on it again but it's all ready for the new gaskets. I bought a cheap set of gaskets from evergreen off amazon, but it has ever gasket you can imagine, which is good because it have to replace them all.. going to spray the HG with copper spray to give it that little bit extra, but should be fine as I work on the other engine to drop in.

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By ngarover
- Sun Jan 18, 2015 11:19 pm #351138 Nice day, brought the head in and replaced all the gaskets, including valve stem gaskets, and lapped the valves. It's all finished and I'll be putting it on the engine tomorrow.

I'll adjust the valves once its back on.

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So, this is the gasket set I bought...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007P7 ... UTF8&psc=1

Cheap, but remember I'm only doing this as a temp engine while I put the other one together right. My only question is should I spray the head gasket with copper spray or just leave it alone.
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By Loaf31
- Sun Jan 18, 2015 11:50 pm #351139 Cleaned it up nicely! :thumb: I would just leave it for now. Should be fine :thumb:

By ngarover
- Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:10 pm #351155 Aright. The engine is back together. Fresh oil, oil filter, coolant and spark plugs.

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But it will not start.

I marked the distributor and I think its right...

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I thought I made sure that the timing belt when on as it came off, Maybe I'm off a tooth or? I guess I need to figure out how to time one of these next and make sure the belts on right. I noticed that the end of the distributor spins and it moved, (I replaced the ring) could I have it 180 out or?

Here is video of what it's doing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYuei1P ... e=youtu.be

By ngarover
- Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:37 pm #351170 Hmm.. nope, I never even took the ground off on the thermostat...

Still no luck.

Only thing I can think of is to just take it all apart and make sure the timing belts on correct. Looks like I have to remove the crank pulley to do that, I don't have a air gun that can take that 17" bolt off.

Question 1. is the bolt standard? meaning I loosen it lefty?

Question 2. Can I use the starter bump trick to break it free?

Already have the power steering and the A/c back off. Ran out of time today to work on it. I only have a couple hours after I get home from work before I have to hit the sack and get ready for the next day.

Maybe it was a bad idea trying to make this engine go again... I'm getting the feeling it would have been easier to just do the swap :)

By ngarover
- Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:28 am #352832 AAAAND it died.... HG started to pressurize the Radiator hose again.

So, Pulled the engine and swapped in the y8 and 5speed from the 98, just have to finish buttoning up a few lines, but 90% done. Pictures coming.

By ngarover
- Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:11 pm #352858 Work on pulling engine starts...


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Pulling the donor

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Donor cleaned and waiting to go in

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New engine in...
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I welded up a custom mount...
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P28 Ready
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Wait... there already is a green/yellow wire in A4.. Does not seem to be on strut, will just splice in.
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Need to figure out the Vacuum lines still...
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Also need to seal and rivet the cover for the the shifter, and do the wiring.
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Tossed the wheels on from the donor car. They look better..
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By iLLson
- Thu Apr 02, 2015 5:25 pm #352959 nice to see it being saved. good luck.

By Angelsbeamer
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 1:22 pm #355110 Looking good. Lots of work done but glad you are saving it.
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