Cathy gets another rubbin'

[vwdaun at yahoo.com (Daun Yeagley)]

--- C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:

So Daun
> arrived about 2 pm Saturday, and left around noon today.
> In the interim,
> Gino (the red Slegato we'd towed from Montreal) got his
> oil sucking engine
> dropped, and a "new" engine /tranny installed.

Thanks to my now-dead '85 winter beater Scirocco.

It's in, but
> there was a small issue of not being able to hook up the
> axles, 100mm
> axle/90 flanges.

Yeah, never thought the 4k that the P.O. swapped into the
donor car years ago still had the 90mm flanges.  Oh well,
details....

 But the heavy stuff is done, and Mark
> (MkI Mark) is a tank
> I tell you, he can bench press an engine/tranny combo in
> a very impressive
> manner.

Absolutely!  Thanks again Mark!  That and breaking free a
few of those fasteners that I couldn't loosen.

So by that point I
> had 8 A1s kicking
> about, including MkI Mark's new MkII, (it's a silver
> beauty with an ABA,
> and it looks lean and down to business)

Not to mention it's Arctic Blue Metallic!

> It IS possible to drop an engine without forgetting any
> wires,

Amazing isn't it?

It's always good to
> wrench with listers,
> I always pick up a tip,or two. Like dont buy a car that
> needs an engine
> swap 8 hours from home...<kidding>

Isn't that what makes it so fun?

So yeah, Gino's getting closer to drivable but still a ways
out.  Brakes, wheel bearings, some electrical gremlins to
name a few.  Unfortunatly it will be another month before I
can get back up there, but I'm looking forward to it
already.

Thanks AGAIN to Cathy for letting me keep this greasy,
leaky car in the Wind Tunnel.


Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
'81 Scirocco S               '85 Scirocco 8v
'86 Scirocco 8v              '88 Scirocco 16v
'88 Scirocco Slegato *still Canadian, but on it's way Stateside*
'96 Passat GLX Wagon         '56 Cessna 172
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Ehrlich's Law.

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