Recent content by Pip Bernadotte

Haha, fair enough... Good luck with the rest of the disassembly/demolition

At least it looks well built ~ Mixed hardware only sucks pulling it apart 😂

I may be able to help out. I should have my house and workshop space in Gray Court being built around that time, so I'll be in the area 😁 I'll try to stop by if possible.

Hmmm... I may have to do some digging to find that then... Thanks for the heads up!

Thanks! I plan to pay them a visit in person tomorrow. I've only done the HS7 for my whole vehicle, I assume I put "25 years old, and therefore exempt" for the block as well?

Alright, fair enough 😆 I'll fill it out and pay my local dealership an in person visit on Monday. Thanks for the information!

I ordered 11400-17120. Why will HS7 be necessary? It's not a complete engine, so it shouldn't be necessary should it? (not questioning you, I was under the impression that import paperwork was only needed for complete engines)

So my local dealership is saying that the short block isn't available to be shipped to the US... 😕 Is there a trick to it that I need to ask for something specific? (Screenshot of their exact explanation) I replied to this and asked if there was someone "further up the chain" they could ask to...

Thanks! Yeah, I'm super excited about it ^_^ None that I saw, but I didn't check that closely. I wasn't aware that they were that much of a problem... I've only heard of head or piston problems if you turbo it and let EGTs or head temps get too high. (which is why I'm planning on adding a more...

So, I bought a building. No land to put it on yet... But I have laid claim to a 60x70x14 red iron steel building 😁 I had actually just put in a quote request for a 60x70x12 building just for an estimate, and they called me back and asked if 60x70x14 would be ok. I said "uh... sure... why?" to...

Well, while I'm waiting on the machine shop, there are some other things I can work on while the engine is apart. I'd wanted to rebuild my PS pump when I saw that it was leaking a year or two ago, but it's powered by the timing gears... so I was... less than enthusiastic about pulling it off...

Well, I got the whole thing apart, and it does look like it's gonna need a bit of machining. I spent another day confirming that by finding my granddad's old sent to telescoping diameter gauges and his 3" micrometers. Everything looked pretty good for a Mk2 spec engine (as marked on the...

Back to our regularly scheduled programming - Engine dismantling! The timing gears are oddly... pretty? Had to improvise a bar to hold the gear from moving. This gear is particularly narrow... had to get a new tool to pull it because my regular 2 and 3 jaw pullers were too wide...

So, it took us most of Saturday to get it out, clutch disc swapped, and the odd concentric slave swapped as well. We continued working Sunday and got it all back together. Everything seemed to be going well, but when we finally got it back on the ground, we couldn't get the clutch to disengage...

Happen to have a photo? I haven't seen how people have packaged them under their hoods.