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Post by hightopRob on Feb 17, 2017 18:31:42 GMT -8
Oops, hahahahaha, now it's a sorry Byron!! 😱
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Post by tony on Feb 17, 2017 18:34:02 GMT -8
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Post by hightopRob on Feb 17, 2017 18:37:54 GMT -8
More progress on getting this project up and running!! The head is replaced and things are back together. The engine is going back in tomorrow (hopefully) 😙.
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Post by Volktales on Feb 17, 2017 19:12:51 GMT -8
Most excellent. Should run a whole lot better!
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Post by PICTUP on Feb 17, 2017 20:45:36 GMT -8
How's it going Toni? More progress on getting this project up and running!! The head is replaced and things are back together. The engine is going back in tomorrow (hopefully) 😙. Nice to see the progress Rob! Soon you will be ready for "Crank, crank, vroooom!" JK !!
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Post by Volktales on Mar 4, 2017 9:13:54 GMT -8
Is it purring away yet? ??
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Post by hightopRob on Mar 4, 2017 9:44:42 GMT -8
Hopefully by this afternoon Russ... Hopefully!! as the electrical issues may have been solved, thx Russ
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Post by hightopRob on Mar 4, 2017 21:10:03 GMT -8
Hello fellow VW ERs, after a couple days of trying to figure out the electrical problem with this here project Russ informed me to try hooking up the back up lights wire to the coil 😁. Now on my 73 the back up lights wire is basically on it's own with no other function, well to my surprise on fuel injection motors this wire is also hooked in with the double relay!!! Well with Russ here killing time waiting for his son downtown we decide to try and fire this pain in my butt up. Hahahahaha bam she fires right up with a little twerk from Russ haha but this adventure is about something totally different !!! As many of you guys know I have had quite a few misadventures, bad luck, screw ups and so on. If you look back to the pictures I posted of the motor with the head swapped out you will see some blue paper towels now take a look at the picture I have posted below and you will see a bunch of burnt up pieces of what I guess I could say is blue paper towels on the ground that had just passed through the intake and out the exhaust 😲 hahahahaha now this is one of my best blunders !!! Luckily no harm done 😙
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Post by CrazyBrit on Mar 4, 2017 22:08:09 GMT -8
😁😂 the really funny bit is that's the sort of thing I would do! Glad to hear she's running again.
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Post by Volktales on Mar 4, 2017 22:36:33 GMT -8
It did sound quite nice once it had belched out the residue...
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Post by Brenticon on Mar 5, 2017 16:48:26 GMT -8
cough cough, belch , purrrrrrr it was quite the tedious path of tests, but that's how we learn ... good job buddy
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Post by magikbus on Mar 5, 2017 20:04:04 GMT -8
Sounds like a Westy "fur ball" cough. Stan
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Post by hightopRob on Mar 5, 2017 20:16:56 GMT -8
Hahahahaha that's a good one!!
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Post by Wongai on Mar 6, 2017 16:09:45 GMT -8
Awesome - That was a recent question a guy on the NPR show Car Talk just asked. He had left a sock in there but he only noticed once he had reinstalled the engine. They suggested he fire it up and burn it out. Pretty awesome to see that it works!
Well done man. Thanks for posting. B
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Post by Volktales on Mar 6, 2017 17:13:49 GMT -8
And look carefully. Proof that the beast was actually running! Now just put rest of it back together...
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