plywood
Recovered N/A
So normally I stick to the Ford truck IDIs but had to give up my nice little car to the wifey that I'm splitting up with so I needed something with mileage.
Started looking and found an 85 Jetta Wolfsburg 4dr 5spd diesel with only 139k on it. I've got three kids, and will be commuting a 110 mile trip often in the future so this seemed perfect.
So picked it up for $800. Had expired tags and had been sitting so I just rented a tow dolly and brought it home.
When I test drove her she sounded solid, but was smoky, but no blowby and fluids looked good so I figured I'd take the leap.
After some fresh fuel and treatment she runs great and sounds really good. Starts up great. Still some smoke, but I think it's just the crappy fuel and I have seafoam in the engine and such so until I put in new oil and drive it some I won't know for sure but I think I'll have to use my new injector pop tester on this car like I did my 93 truck.
So my question is this. It is dripping oil when running. Basically from the rear most, passenger most bolt on the oil pan. The guy gave me an oil pan gasket for it but there is oil all up in the timing belt cover so I wonder if I'm gonna have to deal the rear main seal or whatever it's called on these things. I just don't have experience with these things like the trucks so I'm hoping someone here knows the drill on these engines.
He also gave me a clutch so I'm wondering if I have to pull the engine to do the seals anyway. Kind of wanted to get her going cheap and quickly just for a while with the low miles and maybe do more of a rebuilt later, but at the same time it looks like I could do a lot on this car a lot quicker than a 6.9/7.3l IDI.
Any sort of estimate, on the time and cost to pull the engine and do head gasket, seals, timing belt, and clutch. I suppose if I just make up my mind and do it it won't take that long.
Also it seems the steering rack might be leaking. Do I just need to do new hoses like the trucks or is it more commonly a seal in the rack?
Of course it is electrically possesed, but for now I'll forgoe that proceeding as I'm pretty good with electrical stuff and this one is complex with whatever the POs have done.
Any help is much appreciated. I've got a ton going on right now and don't have time to moonlight the internet on VWs right now and we all know about the search function on our beloved oilburners site.
Started looking and found an 85 Jetta Wolfsburg 4dr 5spd diesel with only 139k on it. I've got three kids, and will be commuting a 110 mile trip often in the future so this seemed perfect.
So picked it up for $800. Had expired tags and had been sitting so I just rented a tow dolly and brought it home.
When I test drove her she sounded solid, but was smoky, but no blowby and fluids looked good so I figured I'd take the leap.
After some fresh fuel and treatment she runs great and sounds really good. Starts up great. Still some smoke, but I think it's just the crappy fuel and I have seafoam in the engine and such so until I put in new oil and drive it some I won't know for sure but I think I'll have to use my new injector pop tester on this car like I did my 93 truck.
So my question is this. It is dripping oil when running. Basically from the rear most, passenger most bolt on the oil pan. The guy gave me an oil pan gasket for it but there is oil all up in the timing belt cover so I wonder if I'm gonna have to deal the rear main seal or whatever it's called on these things. I just don't have experience with these things like the trucks so I'm hoping someone here knows the drill on these engines.
He also gave me a clutch so I'm wondering if I have to pull the engine to do the seals anyway. Kind of wanted to get her going cheap and quickly just for a while with the low miles and maybe do more of a rebuilt later, but at the same time it looks like I could do a lot on this car a lot quicker than a 6.9/7.3l IDI.
Any sort of estimate, on the time and cost to pull the engine and do head gasket, seals, timing belt, and clutch. I suppose if I just make up my mind and do it it won't take that long.
Also it seems the steering rack might be leaking. Do I just need to do new hoses like the trucks or is it more commonly a seal in the rack?
Of course it is electrically possesed, but for now I'll forgoe that proceeding as I'm pretty good with electrical stuff and this one is complex with whatever the POs have done.
Any help is much appreciated. I've got a ton going on right now and don't have time to moonlight the internet on VWs right now and we all know about the search function on our beloved oilburners site.