Swapping sausages - TDI conversion thread

[Dave Sausages]

Fucking love you Reggie you big gay bear

[regcheeseman]

Need that engine now bud... Was it still attached to the gearbox?

[Dave Sausages]

Engine and gearbox are separate, ordered gearbox mount from eBay, third of the price of euro car parts

[regcheeseman]

Hope it's not even worse than euro, I'd normally avoid their tat - CP4L for me and always known brands.

[Dave Sausages]

febi bilstein

[Dave Sausages]

Hope it's not even worse than euro, I'd normally avoid their tat - CP4L for me and always known brands.

They sell the same brands? always a choice of budget shite through to expensive oem spec from euro, got my TRW ball joints from them?

[regcheeseman]

febi bilstein

Yep - fine.

When's that engine turning up?

[Dave Sausages]

You want it tomorrow?

[regcheeseman]

Sooner the better.

[Dave Sausages]

I'll wang it in the shitter in the morning

[regcheeseman]

I'll wang it in the shitter in the morning

Whatever floats your boat dude, just bring the engine over after you've done.

I'm out at 12.

[d-9]

Hope it's not even worse than euro, I'd normally avoid their tat - CP4L for me and always known brands.

ECP and CP4L are the same company, owned by the same guy, selling the same stuff, their websites used to be identical with different colours and logo.

Unfortunately pricing isn't consistent, usually cp4l is cheaper but sometimes ECP is.

[regcheeseman]

Engine turned up this morning



Definitely an AHU



Little trick for undoing the flywheel bolts - pressure plate bolt in the fly wheel, gearbox mount bolt in the block and a 13mm spanner jammed between both



Having got this off, I thought of a few more bits mr sausages..... be sensible to fit a new crank seal under the flywheel and the flywheel should have new bolts - did the flywheel and clutch kit you got have them?


Engine stripped a bit, aircon compressor and water pump pulley removed





Another tip for removing these pulley bolts - if you go in with an allen key, chances are they round off, and you're into a heap of misery; what you need to do is go in hard from the off, get the impact driver and a big hammer and belt 7 bells out of it. All pulleys came off fine.


Can't believe how small this turbo is, it's set low on the block, not sure how well it will fit in the T4, might clock the cold side of the turbo to send the pipework out to the intercooler a better way




Need some proper blanking plates for the EGR - it'll be a lot cleaner with the whole lot removed, look at the crap that's built up in the manifold - eurghh!





Dave, have you got a bunch of coolant pipes and intercooler pipes still up at the workshop, the coolant pipe setup is quite different to the T4 - could do with them to see what sort of setup to run.

[Dave Sausages]

clutch kit should come with replacement bolts, I'll have a look for pipework

[Dave Sausages]

Right, ordered the right crank seal with the housing