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It's Alive!

Written by Floddy May 14 2002 at 19:30.

At last I got to drive the prornomobile again...it rocks! The weekend began on thursday, we threw the last of the parts into the engine bay and got the front parts back in its places. Of course something messed up... The crank pulley had been balanced a bit to hard so the crank locking tool just said "crack" when I tightened the crank pulley bolt. After a phonecall and 30mins later Erik from QTD comes and looks at the problem, makes a phonecall and disappears again. After an hour more he is back with a special made tool that works perfectly. Now that's what i call serviceminded! great! In the evening we were going to start the engine but nothing happens. we move a connector on it and everyhing goes black when the key is turned. Uh-oh. Fortunately it was only the battery that was dead.

After some sleep the friday started with stealing a new battery from the yellow urquattro. Then we turned the key again and...the car didn't start! Fuel is pumping but no ignition. Whilst we are thinking we were about to get the bumper in place but no... the car leaks coolant. We just have to dismount half of the car to get to the water pump which is leaking. A thicker o-ring gasket solves the problem and when the front radiator is already away i got nicer one from RS-Mange. The whole rest of the day we searched for the error that made the engine dead, but no luck Undecided.

The saturday begins with Zap and Bbx going to Erik to lend the VAG1552 tool so we could read out some fault codes (didn't i say serviceminded? Laughing). After some research made by Zap, Bbx and Tacq the error was located to a wrongly mounted distrubutor. Who could have known... In the evening the car started with a helluva knock from the hydraulic lifters, nervous! When it got some normal working temp the oil got thinner and the lifters got some oil into them. No sound at all after that! The engine sounds fantastic! We went out for a small test ride after bleeding the cooling system. We drove for about one hundred meters before something died... No, not the car, but a hedgehog that crossed the road! Oops...

I drove some more on the sunday and i must say that the car runs great! After 40-50km the oil was drained and replaced with some new Motul oil. Some small stuff like side turn signals, window washers and onter things was fixed before it was time to go home.

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