Category: fail
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tuning trouble with the EFI on the T3 double slider
The grey double slider bus has been sat in the darkness in secure parking for a while while other projects and travel have taken a priority. now seemed the time to revisit – the last time i drove it was to move it from MAD-Workshop where we had done a weekend engine and gearbox swap…
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Engine bay fire – not me 😉
Checking your running engine for intake vacuum leaks with flammable brake cleaner is a great idea – until it isn’t – ask me how I know… #vwt3
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oh well… pt 2
leaking head…. doh
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the verdict on the engine!
got the verdict from Martin Taylor at taylor machine services onthe damage to the engine… martin mailed me some pictures from his phone showing more detail… luckily the damage is not too bad, the big end bearing on number one cylinder let go and disintegrated, the extra ‘slop’ on the con rod meant that the…
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your sump should not contain this…
doing this… and found this on closer inspection it looks like this.. …. not the sort of thing you want to find in the sump… it appears to be the remains of a big end bearing…
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Travelling…
A trip away heading south… We had fun playing with a honda r type. Sadly the bus lost the edge after about xxx mph. It was only after slowing and regaining hearing that i realised the bus had lost a plug lead and was running on three cylinders the whole time…. Cool ! had to…
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sadly…no
well, the guy at the MOT station was impressed that i bothered to return to try again but sadly… no. almost all was well but… he wanted two or three little bits of the welding ‘finished up’ with proper seams and the headlights seem to kickup to the wrong side, as if they were LHD…
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gah! oh happy day
looks like the new engine won’t be ready for racing at the summer nationals this weekend, i thought it was a bit too much to hope for… summer nationals co-incides with the party of the year at jony and pippas house in the woods in snowdonia. and they’re moving so it’s the last one ever.…
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legal hassle now? cool!
just received an interesting email from Shabbir Zainuddin, the Intellectual Property Rights Assistant at cafepress. one of the sources i use for merchandise for the akciddento store. seems that they don’t like the use of the word ‘volkswagen’ in the expression ‘volkswagen drag race championships’. i’ll write to him/her and see where this leads. read…
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and they’re off ! running to the sun
after a rush to get people to the station i’m off in the bus, heading south, although i’m going to a gallery preview in dartmouth i’m still in with the general flow of traffic heading to run to the sun in newquay. i trundle through the outskirts of bristol heading for the M5 with the…