[Vwdiesel] Updates, rubber valve cover gaskets and cold no-starts!

[dieseltdi at verizon.net]

I did make one mistake.  It is 810 CCA and 1000 CA    Too many 0's




attery, but since you live in Texas, not so big for you, ha ha ha
That kind of battery will teach that little 1.6TD who is boss, even at 0 degrees.



Bryan Belman, Pt. Pleasant, NJ
04 Jetta Wagon TDI PD BEW, 100hp, 5sp -- running :<)
04 Golf TDI PD BEW, 100hp, 5sp Tiptronic Auto -- running :<)
82 Diesel Westy 1.9NA 1Y -- running :<)
70 Type 1 Beetle -- Under Restoration forever:-)



On Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:51 AM, "dieseltdi at verizon.net" <dieseltdi at verizon.net> wrote:

Well I turned the ?smoke screw? in ¼ of a turn and the car really came to life. I have taken it on a couple of full throttle stomps and managed to pull almost 450 degrees C (840 F) so I think I will let it stay where it is for now and see how it affect the MPG. I had a full tank when I started this episode and it seems to be making a difference. I will let you guys know when I fill up again. I also developed a valve cover oil leak so I needed to fix that. For those of you that haven?t make this switch on your older engines (mine came from the factory with one) the rubber gasket is really the way to go. You do have to buy the kit the first time because it requires a 
different shouldered stud that is not on the early engines. Once you have that, if you ever need to replace the gasket because you messed it up like I did, they are available at almost every FLAPS just ask for a Golf, Jetta, Corrado, or even a passat valve cover gasket for a 2.0 gas engine. They were used from 93 to just recently so they are readily available. I also remounted my temperature senders from the front of the head outlet to the back (more room to screw in the T fitting), changed out the connector and now my idiot dash gauge and my real temperature gauge pretty well agree. It still seems to take a long time for the dash gauge to change but it now come up to just to the left of the warning light in the middle of the gauge. Car runs pretty steady at 90-93 degrees C on the gauge. Last little bit. It was 17 degrees F here again the other morning and once again the Jetta refused to start. I pulled the battery to 
have it tested and they said it was fine. Soooooo, since I had installed a really big battery box in the trunk for the battery, I traded in the stock battery for a series 27 which has 810 CCA and 10000 CA (apparently used in Dodge trucks) and put that it. Now the car starts on the first of second round. It is supposed to be in the low 20s Tuesday morning (after a high of 73 today) so It will get a good test then. I guess I shouldn?t complain about the temperatures here, I know some of you are barely making it into POSITIVE numbers. Hayden


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