Had a fairly good day today, I started off by sorting out a **** up I made yesterday:
Somehow, I managed to drop a tiny clip when working near the header tank the turbo water line. Sodds law dictated that it had to fall down inside the cambelt cover, so this morning I had to remove the aux belt lower pulley, remove the cambelt cover, and find the dropped part!
Found it hiding tightly in between the cambelt and the bottom pulley, on the back side, ready to get dragged into the pulley and cause chaos on first start up!
The evil clip:
Ran my inlet manifold and rocker cover through the dishwasher yesterday, and they came out great!
Threw a coat of the VHT orange onto the rocker cover, and as expected, it's awful.
Still waiting on parts this morning, I decided to spend a while cleaning up the incredibly oily head:
Pretty happy with how it's come up really, considering there was over 200k's worth of oil leaks baked onto it
Nipped into town to take Tori to work, and popped into Audi - picked up a new inlet manifold gasket, and got the workshop tech to look up diff bolt torque settings for me, very helpful..
Also stopped off at the nut and bolt shop and got some new stainless allen bolts for the inlet manifold, several of mine rounded off when I removed it.
Picked up some new orange enamel in Halfords on the way home, and gave the rocker cover a flash over in the better colour, as well as a can of satin black for the inlet manifold:
(excuse the report, but this keeps things in order!)
Very happy with how that looks now.
Last thing of the day, I went to the post office to collect my 2 parcels I missed whilst I was out, a Sealey timing chain tensioner tool (thanks for the heads up Tufty!) and a new metal water pipe to replace my rusted out old one
Tried out the tensioner tool on my spare head, so now I know how to do that on mine. Simple bit of kit but very useful!
I've now got everything I need to finish the cooling system, apart from the little push fit hose joiners to join to the bulkhead.
The A3 ones are right angled like this:
I need the S3 ones which are straight, to go on the end of these:
Anyone got one to hand so I can steal a part number? or have a copy of Etka to look it up for me? I need to order some from TPS tomorrow so I can fit it all on Saturday!
Progress is being made, feels like I'm past half way now!