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Lush. Departure time will be?

Thursday for me, dunno when, but sometime. Yah.

Slightly off topic, but is your golf the slammed one with roofracks and rusty front guard? [edit] Ignore that, it is.

Yah, go ARP if you want it to last a bit longer. Otherwise just mash the old ones back in, with a bit of superglue around the gasket to seal it up. How can you not get a full set? That sounds rather strange..

Mine snapped in half.

Nah can't dump oil in the shifter hole in these things, that part is just full of grease and is separate from the rest of the g/box. I have a photo somewhere... Oil in there won't be going far..

I fail at reading the internets.. Did not even know about this until 105 txted me after.

TBH if I couldn't find it, that was what I was gonna do. Would have just ended up with a fan lodged in the radiator.

I just woke up to the sudden realisation that I didn't do up the waterpump pulley bolts.. Most probably the source of the bizarre noise.

Doesn't look like engine mounts. Was thinking it could just be some sort of diesel rattle, but it got louder and more concerning. I cranked the tensioner up to spec, not really keen on pulling the whole front off again.. Will see if I can bend the cover back enough to get a look inside. Might find some high quality audio recording device for the sake of online diagnostics. Gonna be pretty gutted if it is something internal.

Sounds like the front of the engine, but can't really pinpoint it. Engine still feels to run sweet, but it is a pretty loud noise at idle that was not there yesterday. That would be mildly gay if that was the case though.

Seems however, as soon as one problem is sorted, another one crops up. This one is in the form of the sound of something hitting into something it shouldn't be.... I'm getting kind of annoyed at this car.

Lewl, bled off cyl 1 and it's purring quite happily now. How odd...

Seems a bit unlikely it'd need bleeding again after an hour of running? Turned it off and back on a few times with no issues. I'll snoop around for leaks and see what's up. Maybe the shitty spring clamps are not clamping as good as they should.

Alrighty dear buddies I replaced the fuel pump with my known good one, and the car ran mint. Idled fine, rev'd fine, etc. Drove it around a bit, boosted up and was quite a bit quicker than previously (to be expected, it now as a turbo.) Boost and fuel are still at factory default. Anyway, tonight I decided to drive it home so I could get the exhaust done tomorrow. However when I stopped at an intersection, it died. The fact the battery was fucked didn't help. Swapped in a good battery, but now the car does not want to idle very happily. I had to crank the idle speed up a notch to keep it alive. Sounds very much like it's dropped a cylinder or 2, but picks them back up once revs are increased. Ideas???

Kidnap them and stuff them in the boot if you have to.

Here is a fully assembled 3L-T, awaiting installation. And mostly installed. Right, the plan was to have this thing running for Wagnats. Which it sort of was.. However the fuel pump decided to be a major faggot, and did a very poor job of putting fuel in the engine. The result was a 1200rpm readline with a lot of coughing and spluttering. After ignoring the car for a few weeks, I figured it was about time I actually swapped the pump with my known good one. So I did. Yup, car finally runs, and it runs fucking fine! I haven't yet played with the boost or fuel, but it still has a noticeable increase in power. Once I install the pyro and boost gauges, I should be able to tweak it to a bloody good state. 'Till next time.

Sounds cozy?

Bent is plausible, especially if they have been sitting awhile and seized up a bit.

If you don't, you will forever have "the gays".

Might wanna make sure nothing is bent. One of my cars has the same issue, but I have yet to look at why. From what I've heard, shocks can make a difference too.

Fluro brown?

'Tis much better to vent your oil to asmosphere than into the cooling system.

Was in the process of swapping the pump with my known good one, however the pulley nut is on so motherfucking tight and I have no way of undoing it. 2' power bar with another 2' extension pole on the end wouldn't cut it. Rather annoying.

Fuel is brand new Filter is brand new