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Pan work part 2.

Looking back those previous photos looked kind of crap, so i thought i would take some more to show you how it really looks now its been painted twice and finished off.

So here you can see the pan in its nice red oxide coating, with the blacked out seat rails (as this is the part you can see through the carpet).

Closer view of the front

Coolies and that’s it for now before i lay down the new underlay, i didn’t need to paint the tunnel bit as it was fine but i may do it later as a just in-case. You can also see the cable that hooks the gear selector to the automatic clutch.

That’s it for this topic.

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Motor out and pulling apart.

There she is, on the great trolley dolly.

Tinware off, these photos arent just for you people out there they are for me so i can remember where everything went šŸ˜‰

The infamous flex plate and its nut 36mm (grabbedĀ the socket ordered in for me at sprint auto partsĀ was only 25 bux). I found out that this is under 230 ft pounds of torque, so no normal torque wrench can undo it or even do it up. But first problem first, when the gland nut spins the whole flexplate spins, there exists an official tool to help you out here (i saw one for sale but it was $100usd) i decided to make my own.

So i used the original bolts that held the torque converter onto the plate and then just bolts that fit into the engine mount holes, I used 2 of them diagonally across from each other, but i would suggest maybe having 4 cause its fairly easy to bend and i almost did bend it.

Getting the gland nut off was killing me i couldn’t move it with 2 people helping (aka jumping on an extension for the ratchet),Ā I decided to go out and buy a 1/2″ air ratchet (nice big bastard). I wasn’t sure if it would work we tried it and there was nothing, i went to the compressor and red lined the air, and sprayed WD40 on it with about a 30 second burst i saw the tiniest of movement, left if a few seconds and gave it a second go, pop off she came with much rejoicing.

At the same time i will talk about the supposedly easy removable pulley, i bought one of those pulley pullers after much searching, i gave it a go the puller creeked and the puller snaped in the middle, i thought “doesn’t anything happen the way it should” then i reminded myself its a VW. I grabbed 2 heavy duty G clamps and a big piece of flat steel, and started doing the clamps up, the metal bar bent, cut it in half and doubled it up and gave it a go and finally pop out it came.

Finally in pieces, takeĀ note when pulling the automatic oil pump and normal oil pumpĀ out make sure you got both pieces outĀ of the engine (other wise its a bit hard to pull the case apart. Also the oil strainer under the engine sump also appears to come out šŸ˜‰

So this is the inside of the crank case where the bearings sit.. now the one on the LHS is worrying me and looks fairly worn.Ā 

Now am i looking for a reconditioned case? or can i grab some fine wet/dry sandpaper and carefully take it back a bit? Any help would be great.

That’s all for now, several cool new topics on there way.