What Did You Do To Your Car Today?

[Puffwagon]

Yerp. I had everything I needed once upon a time.

[Breeny]

So this went on

Somewhere here...

To replace this 

And this bit

Found this though wtf? Didnt know there were restrictors here?

 

 

Next stop tune time!

Scary the amount of oil coming from those phasor seals...wondering how much is leaking from mine now 

[k31th]

yeah, good old restrictor rings in FG's. emissions...

 

if your cam phasers are doing what they should be doing, then they won't be leaking at all

[Breeny]

Gah emissions...wheres the fun in that???

Have noticed quite a decent trace of oil in intake crossover pipe on this thing - was hoping that's just the umm relaxed clearances in turbo engines letting a little blow-by past?

[k31th]

a little bit of oil in the intake tract is 100% normal for these cars, from the lack of a catch can.

 

emissions, yep... only those government mandated requirements for car manufacturers which allows them to make money by selling cars

[Rab]

Was I the only one cheering for VW for fudging the figures?

 

/s

[k31th]

fair...

[Puffwagon]

I bought a socket today and swapped the blade control arms.

 

Here is the farked passenger side

 

 

Here is the passenger side removed

 

 

Here is the new one installed

 

 

 

This is the farked drivers side

 

 

 

And here's the farker installed

 

 

 

It went smoothly without any major upsets so that was good. The clunk remains however so I'll be looking at it another day when it's a bit cooler.

 

4 hours ago, k31th said:

if your cam phaser seals are doing what they should be doing, then they won't be leaking at all 

FTFY

 

According to my hp tuners scanner the cam phasers are working. It's just leaking seals mate.

[k31th]

seals are part of the cam phaser plug thingo, so I think of them as the same piece of equipment, but you're right.

[Puffwagon]

Haha you should have seen how much oil was in the plug hole. The missus came outside and wondered what all the smoke was about.