[Vwdiesel] Overheating cont., or TDI for sale cheap

[S. Shourds]

I've been sporadically messing with my overheating TDI and today I gave 
it a test drive.  When the temp. gauge is high and there's no heat, I'll 
take that as a bad sign.  So, I drove it carefully, and in intervals, 
back to the house and pulled the thermostat.  A bit of advice from the 
TDIclub.com site indicated that you can test the water pump by pulling 
the thermostat out and trying to spin the impeller by hand.  Sure 
enough, it turned several degrees.  It locked after that, but I still 
have to replace it.  This really ticks me off becase I replaced it with 
the timing belt.  9000 miles ago.  And, of course, I'll have to pull 
half the same stuff off again to replace the pump.  It's a good car when 
it's running, but that's just not been very often.  I'm starting to get 
termianlly ticked off.  I also have to hope now that the overheating 
that I'd hoped was a figment of the computer's imagination didn't tear 
up the engine, crack the head, blow the gasket, etc. 

I'm still driving the old '85, but the starter selenoid is starting to 
go out among other things.  After that, I'm going to be riding my bike 
20 miles down I-30 to work.  I.e., I'll be missing work. 

-Shalyn

-00 Jetta TDI--making stains on my garage floor
-85 Jetta TD--barely hanging on.