[Vwdiesel] It's running

[Shawn Wright]

Congrats! Where are you at? I probably have a spare cable you can have 
from my old '85, although I don't think they are that much new. The oil 
pressure problem is an odd one, you've done int shaft bearings, right? 
What kind of gauge? What is the cold oil pressure at the head? My 1.6 
mechanical head gives 80psi or so cold at idle with 15w40 on a 10C 
morning. The lowest hot idle reading I've seen so far is 27psi, usually 
around 30psi.

On 31 May 2005 at 22:26, mikitka <mikitka at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I got the 91 TD Jetta running. Didn’t get a chance to take it out with it
> getting dark and I have two injector lines leaking at the pump. The bottom
> two. These are new lines as well. I was able to find new ones for a good
> price. Not like I didn’t have time to look while waiting for all my parts to
> come in each week. I can say this much. I’m running the nonturbo injector lines
> and they fit just fine. The two bottom lines are kind of at an angle so I need
> to take them back off and tweak them some to have the face of the line seat flat
> on the injector pump. Other than that it runs great. I had to turn the idle up
> some and the pump is set right at 1mm. I was even able to get it up to operating
> temp and go back through and ¼ turn the head bolts. This is also the head that
> the local shop messed up on the first rebuild. So far so good. I also still
> don’t have any oil pressure at the head at warm idle, this is the second new oil
> pump, I even plastigaged the bearings and they are all good. So beats me as to
> the oil pressure problem. The head is getting oil because I didn’t tighten the
> cam cover at first and I had a nice puddle under the car from the oil flowing
> down the backside of the engine. Oh I did run into another problem, (hey would
> it be me if something didn’t happen) my throttle cable broke at the fire wall,
> so the casing just slides back and forth. It still works but not like it should.
> I don’t get full throttle travel. So time to look around and wait for another
> part to come in. :-( But at least I can drive it. Hopefully I can get that leak
> fixed when I get home from work and get it out on a break-in run.
> 
> Nick
> 
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Shawn Wright
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'85 Jetta D 
'88 Westy 2.1L, soon to be 1.6TD 5 speed
 (see progress at http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels)
'82 Diesel Westy