Shiver
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Well the time has come me and madmanluke dusted off the tools and cracked on with this build. It was left on hold until lukes new engine was confirmed and near being collected. All of his running gear was put on my shell today ready for the real work to begin. I wanted to change it all again that way it's all from one car which we took apart when he vr conversion was first done two years ago. Once the old beam subframe and engine are out of my garage we can carry on pushing this one forward. Well the engine now runs smooth again in this car after it came out running lumpy in Luke's. Not sure
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The day started with the plan of getting the old back box cut off and hang the system that came with the red shell. First thing noticed was the centre section was a good 12inches too long so cut it down and now the pipe is the same width as the de cat so will need a sleeve to hold this up properly. Once the engine was running we noticed It was stuck in gear but the previous owner had unbolted the selector on the gear box so decided to take the engine out ,gear box off and try the spare I bought the other month. It's always a big gamble buying secondhand from eBay so back in and running.....
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Managed to repair the loom I clipped with the wire wheel luckily it was only one wire that got cut in half the rest were light grazes so nothing major. I stripped the lighting loom back to take out the main positive and found so previous damage from the last owner hidden by some tape For afew months ive been fighting with this ground anchor from last owner and today had enough of it getting in my way so attacked it with the grinder haha!!!! Bolted up the cross member and noticed my engine mount doesn't line up it's too far back not sure what's up with that
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Well the plan for getting the engine started this weekend went out of the window thanks to not having a 109 relay so got on with cutting the exhaust out, engine out and drive shafts out of the way then back in, gear selector bolted up. Need to repair the loom I wrecked with the wirewheel on the angle grinder whoops. Main positive and ground need to come out of the lighting loom then charge the battery and fresh fuel hopefully!
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Decided to stop fussing about and got on with fitting the engine harness and dropped the engine in which isn't that fun on your own without the crane.
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Got some new wire wheels on order including a knot one to go on the angle grinder Mk3 universal joint fit Had to cut the bulk head to bolt up the pedal box as the top mount is 15mm over It's so nice to have steering again instead of kicking the wheels to roll her out Started working on the rust on the floor panels and sorting the flaking tar with a heat gun ready for when I fit the new sound deadening. Had enough of not finding anything so it all came out and a good cleaning while th sun was out
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Got my hands on all the bits to get my brake lines made but got in the post another 50ft copper line just in case Cut and drilled the holes for the clutch shame it went abit side ways at the start but nothing abit of sealant won't fix when all fitted. Armed with my heat gun I got to work on removing the wax and grease as the engine bay was totally caked in it. Once it all started coming off I noticed more and more rust spots so took out the wire wheel and I wish I didn't start! The sealant takes forever to come off and there's loads of it but it'll be worth it in the end.
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Having got out of work early it was off to the garage for more fun. Took an angle grinder to the old manifold as the centre section was stuck we bolted the subframe up with it in place and even if I did free it up it wouldn't come out. The cutting wheel was too small so I had to cut it at different angles and took an age but got there in the end, shame the centre is still stuck so that's as far as that Job goes for now. Out came the sound deadening as it was soaked and mouldy thanks to a knackered heater matrix going pop. Engine and lighting loom in got some way through plugging it in but m
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New loom and engine harness Got cracking on the loom tonight. Old one ripped out and new tidy one fed in ready to tidy it all up and make sense of it. Fuse box was a right state so it was all unplugged and untangled as it was just too tight and unable to work with. Alot tidier Started on the engine harness but didn't get round to finishing it as I need to turn the lump around so maybe on Sunday Heated washer jets cut out, crappy stereo loom taken out ready to make up a new one when ready, started taking the centre console out but left the grips at home so couldn't get the matrix out whic
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Ok it begins a half attempt to build this by two guys who didn't really know what much and no doubt was sold on cheap as it didn't work and I took it on.
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Ok I've noticed my title is missing the a so I'll write it again. Does an 020A 5th fit in an 02J box?
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Conflicting info coming from all sides. If I'm reading this correct then the mk3 tdi does for in an o2a/I v5 box http://www.clubgti.com/archive/index.php?t-255736.html
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So can I use an o2a if I can't find an o2j?
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Can I use mk3 tdi 5th in my v5 box?
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Can someone point me in the right direction as I've done countless searches across various forums to find no one gives Straight answer. So far I know I need 2wd v5 gearbox O2J selector and mk4 shifter 100mm cups/flanges to bolt to vr6 driveshafts Mk3 tdi final drive to make it 3.94 What I don't know is which code gearbox and from which car. As I've found the golf v5 has two engines the aqn and the agz both came in 5 and 6 speed. One is 150bhp the other is 170bhp The gearbox codes I've had thrown at me are FBK EBK DZL EBS Way too many variations going on for my liking
