15-10-2013, 02:18 PM
As many of you may know, my gti is broken. I've spent a month being miserable about it and just generally hating on it.
Until I started watching Cully's Spare gti engine thread, and figured I've got nothing to loose so! I watched loads of videos online about head refurb, valve reseating etc and gained loads of motivation. I also wanted to find out exactly what caused this issue in the first place.
Started taking bits off, inlet manifold, cam cover, rocker covers, belts etc. Went to crank the engine so I could put the locking pegs in the cam pulleys, and the inlet cam pulley showed where it had cracked, quite badly!
Can't believe the pulley itself snapped...
Then I couldn't get the exhaust manifold bolts off, the ones before the cat. They just kept spinning freely, and couldn't get the bottom aux belt pulley off. It's looking like I'll have to come back to this next year when I've got more time/money/motivation
