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Allchokedup

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Well, I have already had to pull the motor out of this car once (last year) due to lost screens and a balance shaft that snapped its flange off. This was about 30k miles back and now the burning of oil has become too much. While I have pulled the engine I have not swapped all the external components and I want to have everything on hand to complete the job.
Items I can think of..
New main seal
New water pump
Enough oil for 2 changes (break in and fresh oil)
Coolant
Anything else you guys can think of? Yes, I picked up rebuilt long block in my gti :)






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Allchokedup

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I had never worked on a new vw but when I lost all oil pressure due to balance shaft I had more time than money. I drive around most days for work so I had to get it fixed.
I picked up the rebuilt block from a local guy. He was cool and gave me some helpful tips. He has a shop and told me if I broke down call him and he will send a tow truck. Hopefully everything is solid and will have no issues. He assured me all was solid and I trust him. Cost me $1900 with $350 core charge. I might end up keeping my old block for future endeavors.
 
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zrickety

zrickety

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Yeah I would save the old block, if anything it will make a cool coffee table. I'm not sure I would bother with a new water pump, but I guess while it's apart why not. Spend a few extra bucks and get the iAbed billet rear main seal, totally worth it. The oem piece is junk.
 
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Allchokedup

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zrickety said:
Yeah I would save the old block, if anything it will make a cool coffee table. I'm not sure I would bother with a new water pump, but I guess while it's apart why not. Spend a few extra bucks and get the iAbed billet rear main seal, totally worth it. The oem piece is junk.
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I plan on metal (alum) water pump. I dont know that my plastic one has ever been changed.
I have seen the iabed RMS, I already have a OEM so I dunno. Will have to check cost. I guess having a solid RMS >water pump
 
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Jiffyjetta

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Injector seal kits. Various gaskets, intake manifold exhaust manifold etc. Flywheel bolts. Crank pulley bolts. Dogbone mount bolts if you remove them. Thread locker. Just a few things I can think of.
 
OhioMK6

OhioMK6

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Best of luck; document as much as you can at your convenience! I may swap in a low-mileage motor in the future myself.
 
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Allchokedup

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Jiffyjetta said:
Injector seal kits. Various gaskets, intake manifold exhaust manifold etc. Flywheel bolts. Crank pulley bolts. Dogbone mount bolts if you remove them. Thread locker. Just a few things I can think of.
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Intake mani gasket is connected.
I do need injector seals and exhaust gaskets.Good reminder, thanks!
 
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Allchokedup

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OhioMK6 said:
Best of luck; document as much as you can at your convenience! I may swap in a low-mileage motor in the future myself.
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Will do, dont see it being too difficult as I have had the engine out previously. I marked all harness ends with masking tape and what they were for. I think I can complete it in a weekend and a day..
 
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Allchokedup

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About 2.5 hours, need to drain coolant pull rad assembly/crash bar off and yank it out. New gaskets showed up today, didnt expect till tomorrow. I have a felpro rms but I'm hesitant to use it. Anyone have experience with these?
Got another ticket last week for no inspection and was asked if I knew my car was smoking. Lol, is that where I've been losing a quart 200 miles? Ha
Last time I pulled engine I didnt own xzn sockets and was a bit difficult. So far so good..
I'm a bit further than this pic.
 
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Allchokedup

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That was a whoopin, 7 hours total to get the engine out. I marked a lot of the wiring harness with masking tape and where it goes. This was a big help last time when routing it back around the engine. Hopefully tomorrow I can start pulling parts off old block.

 
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Allchokedup

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Started swapping parts today. I hate when I have all my tools/parts out and then wife informs me we have "things" to do. Anyway, here are some pics. All pretty straightforward except the injector seals. Had to watch a video on that, wasnt sure if they just pulled out of the intake (they do). On the other end I replaced the ring by slicing old one off and carefully sliding new one on. It was a bit difficult to get them seated into the head but I used aftermarket bolts that I picked up. ITS VERY EASY TO STRIP THREADS ON HEAD. I am using longer bolts and chunked the stock as they are about a 1/4 too short imo. Just like the comfort of having more thread in there.
Other than that nothing to comment..
 
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Allchokedup

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Oh and one of the injectors was soaked with oil! I assume there was only one cylinder burning all that oil. Crazy I never had a cel pop up burning a quart every 200 miles! Before and after new seals.



 
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Allchokedup

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Well..waiting on head to come back from machine shop.swapped everything on the front side and got to turbo to find there were 2 exhaust studs snapped off in the block. I built the stud up with weld and had enough to put vise grips on and it ripped the top of the stud off. So drilled a hole through the stud and put an ezout into it and ended up snapping it off..I was going to drill it oversize and put a helicoil in but since I bought the block rebuilt I'm going to let the seller deal with it. Ughh should have back by Saturday
 
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