Welcome to Pixel Car Art

[Henrique.]

man, for anything's sake, get rid of that antenna

[Kubason]

wow, sitting nicely man

[duncan]

I took a few pictures awhile back and I forgot to post em.
Photo Bucket has been giving me nothing but troubles lately.

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Then I took the flares off. I just need to find a set of nice quarter flares to hide the holes.

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So about a week ago, it's freezing cold, I'm running late for school, and of course my starter doesn't work and the thermostat crapped out the night before. Next thing I know I need a new battery, starter, Distributer cap and rotor, few vacuum lines, sparkplugs, thermoswitch, and now I have a blown head gasket. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dash2.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/facepalm.gif)

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I can't get it to our shop 30 minuets away, so all this has to be done in my gravel driveway.

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And to top it all off, It started snowing when I was replacing the thermostat. Fingers frozen, Coolant got all over me, Freezing winds, and the only warm thing I had with me was a heavy flannel. I don't think I have ever been that miserable working on a vehicle.


At the moment, I have yet to install the thermoswitch, Starter, and i'll start replacing the headgasket ASAP.
For now, Ill be rolling in my moms bus:
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This post has been edited by duncan: Dec 4 2013, 04:43 AM

[Myca]

Is your mom VW enthusiast?

Those orange things at front fenders is horrible. Red stripe on bumpers would look nice.

[duncan]

Our whole family basically is.

I hate the side markers too, but I am not gonna shave em.

The car is still out of commission, mainly because I had to order a 1/2" tool that will fit the torque wrench. Hopefully I will get it all done Friday.
Sucks not driving being able to drive it!

[Brandon]

dude just get a new engine

those old mk2 engines are like $3

This post has been edited by RAD: Dec 12 2013, 06:20 AM

[duncan]

The engine I have is not bad. Any other engine I get will unfortunately have very similar problems :/

[Brandon]

wait nvm I just noticed you were gonna fix it

my friend drove his altima on a blown hg for awhile and it blew up lol. thats what I was worried about

[Henrique.]

Dude, if you change those trims on the bumper, and paint the wheels this would look so much better. I mean, fresh new. Love those jettas, I wish we ever had anything from the golf family before the mk3 here in brazil. Hell, we don't even have the Jetta MK3, lol.

Good luck with the engine, hope you manage to pull it out driving again.

Is your mom VW enthusiast?

Our whole family basically is.

I am a little jelly.

[duncan]

if you change those trims on the bumper, and paint the wheels this would look so much better.

Those have been some of the top things on the "To Do List". I will eventually get the rims powder coated soon, and the faded bumper trim annoy the heck outta me. There is chrome trimming at the auto parts store that people use, and I was gonna try that out.

[duncan]

I've been working on the head gasket replace for about a week now. Mainly because I had to wait on parts/tools to arrive.
So far I got everything taken apart and cleaned, and all the new parts ready to go on.
While I was taking off the exhaust, some of the studs came out and we don't have new studs and new self-locking bolts. Hopefully I'll get them today.

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Got the head off and immediately found why it kept overheating so easily:
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Most of the coolant ports are blocked and clogged at the head gasket. Hopefully that's the only place they're clogged.

Also found the source of the exhaust leak

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The injectors are also stuck because the seals have dried up and became hard. I sprayed some WD-40 to try to soften the seals up, but they are still almost impossible to get out. I read someone had to use a pair of channel locks and a crowbar to get theirs out, may try that.

[duncan]

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Car runs like crap. May have to replace the ECU, but I am hoping its just a bad ground.

[W. Lundberg]

Nice car man! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Inspiration

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[Sir KV]

it appears to get lower in every picture

[EE8Kev]

Is that sludge clogging up the coolant port or rust globs?

[duncan]

It actually was rust globs in the coolant ports. I tried cleaning i out as much as possible, and it doesn't get as hot as it used to. I think the heater core is slightly clogged as well, so that's another thing to add to the list.
I also plan on bringing the wheels down to bare metal and clearing them until I have enough money to get them powder coated.

I am currently trying to acquire either a westy grill, or a 7 slat
Westy:
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7 Slat:
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And currently trying to achive this stance
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[Andrew.]

dam that headgasket was in terrible shape

[duncan]

Slight update:
My tag expired, and the car gets it's first inspection (it never needed one because it's an out of state car). It only needs safety inspection, and of course it failed miserably. So I spent all day today installing new tag lights, replacing the correct horn, get new tires, and put in a new muffler.
The new muffler turned out to be a bigger project than expected due to previous owners custom exhaust work.
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You can tell where the pipe had broke right at the welds.
So off to o'riley, and picked up a new one.

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Not entirely happy with the sound of this one; but it is 100x better than the busted/ripped/rusted out junk that was on it. It is so much quieter, and it almost seems like it runs better (but that's most likely just a placebo effect). It could sound better, but I think it's about as good as it's going to get being a 4 cylinder 1.8L. I was hoping for more of a 2.0 or a vr6 sound (IMG:style_emoticons/default/trollolololm[1].png)

Hopefully it will pass tomorrow so I can renew my plate, but who can say.

[duncan]

Not much to update, mainly because of life getting in the way, but I did find why it was running terribly.

While doing the motor work, the ISV had got clogged. CIS systems do not like to sit at all. Also, one of the ISV plug wires had been cut and made it run like crap. Now I am getting great gas mileage, and it runs way better.

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Still haven't painted the wheels, or fix the dents, or do much anything to the body yet, but I did find a Pizza Hut sign!

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Also thinking about running some hubcaps until I can get some actual work done to them. Also need some skinnier tires. I have 195/50 but would like to get something like 185/45. But again, more money that I don't have at the moment.

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Next step is new clutch, rear brake pads, and hopefully find a cheep cat since mine had been hollowed out.
Hopefully I'll have more updates soon.

This post has been edited by duncan: Sep 18 2014, 06:13 PM