[Vwdiesel] finished, no start

[Nate Wall]

They make a special (flimsy) tool to remove that plastic plug. I've always
used a pair of channel locks to get it out. Its a tight fit and not much for
the pliers to bite on, but patience pays off here.

--Nate

Gary Shea wrote:

> Hey Kris --
>
> More thoughts.  I suspect that Nate might have hit it on the head with
> the 'loop' vs. 0 observation, but there's one other thing I wanted to
> make sure of.  The plastic fitting through which one looks down at the
> flywheel and pressure plate has an inner cover which snaps out (often
> broken off so you may not have it), and the whole plastic piece unscrews
> (hence the raised hex on top).  You have to unscrew the whole thing in
> order to see the pointer that pinpoints TDC exactly.  Why they did such
> a misleading thing is probably long forgotten, but there it is.
>
>         Gary
>
> [2002-08-28 18:09 -0700] Kris (krisa at subtend.net) wrote:
>
> > Ok, so finally after two months of teaching myself how to rebuild this
> > rabbit, I have everything back together.
> >
> > Cranked and cranked until the battery died.  I guess now comes the hard
> > part.  Getting it to start (and troubleshooting the problem).
> >
> > I had the head rebuild, and replaced the head gasket and all coolant
> > hoses.  Thats about it.
> >
> > A couple of things I noticed were fuel leaking from the pump adjustment
> > screw (where you hook up a dial indicator) and it seems there is fual
> > leaking from a couple of the injectors.  I reused the entire injector.
> > I've heard that you need to at least replace the heat shield, and I
> > didn't do this.
> >
> > The liquid coming from around the injectors looked a bit black.  There
> > isn't a chance that the combustion chambers are full of oil?  That would
> > suck.
> >
> > Anything else I should look into?  I'm thinking I'll re-time the pump.
> >
> > --
> > I'm just a packet pusher.
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