[Vwdiesel] VW truck almost running again

[Travis .]

It has been a while but I am finally moving forward on my VW truck. Since moving to WI I knew I had a fuel leak on the input shaft of the injection pump. Last year I got my pump and injectors rebuilt (never use parts place ever again-previously did the pump and wasn't the only pump I had fail in a fairly short time). Brother had his pump from Giles in Canada but he didn't really like how it was running for him so I swapped pumps. Never put things together. I was going to do the seals on the timing belt side of the engine as well. But after closer inspection I don't think the leaks are coming from there but there was a leak out of the drain plug (which will get replaced by a fumoto oil drain valve). I have new belt and tensioner installed and injection pump is put in. I have a few more things to do but then it should breath to life in the next couple nights. Then I have aditional work like installing the rear leaf spring bushings I had bought from Roger a year or so ago (honesly I had forgotten about that even till I found the box) and get the parking/E-brake cables hooked back up-nuts came off and I can't get them back on. But it will be drivable. I had towwed it mostly from WY to MN and then drove from MN to WI. 

 

The reason was the first year I only had a single stall garage that was hardly large enough for my tool box and mower. Then when I moved to a place with a shop-I had so many other projects in the fire I just never got to it (had to get my other JD 332 L&G tractor up and running good along with wiring in a cab with the two stage blower). Now-I need to finish my already started projects to so I can free up room for more things in the fire. So it will be good to have a working truck again as a trailer doesn't always hold what you need when you run to town and I don't want to insure the Dodge truck with 6 mpg except for winter when the rabbits go to sleep. Next project is getting a backhoe rebuilt and and frame welds corrected on a 140 JD L&G tractor (has a loader as well on it). Hoses and cylinder rebuild or new but pins/frame and assembling needs work yet. That is a 3 year project I pulled from my brother as he ran out of steem. Then I have a 430 JD L&G diesel as well I need to weld on the frame work (basically weld a different rear 1/2 on). I finally have a good welder I can use now so the project list got bigger. Winter time I can focus on the Geo metro getting the engine running withou burning oil  (seems 100K miles they do that) so that can be my winter beater. Get the 85 golf running as another winter beater since it isn't nice enough to keep from using and getting a 317 JD L&G tractor running and possibly sold (as it is gas-not diesel). 

 

Thankfully my rabbit car doesn't have a list to work on. Just a door latch post which I have a spare of. 04 Golf-I need to get the rear hatch wiring re-done and new boots put on. Which-if any one knows how I would like to hear. I have the boots but there isn't much for writeups on getting the wires replaced. The boots have torn and I can see copper wire so it is a mater of time before the rear hatch won't have anything that works. And I have the right front passager air bag controler giving me a fualt so the right front seat needs to be removed to do that. Issue is that car gets used too much currently. But-I will be starting to work 3rd shift in the near future-so we won't need the aditional cars now. 

 

Travis