Millennium Falcon
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Haven't gotten much done lately... Been trying to learn how to tig weld so I can finish my intake/intercooler piping. Im on hour 3 since I touched a tig torch. I also need to weld in my MAP bung.
Have you thought about making that a removable panel? Would make timing belts easier i'd think.The downside is my vacuum pump is under my dash board and I have a 12”x 10” hole to box up. Ha ha!
...and mark TDC somewhere if that hasn't been done.
which I haven't done yet.
There must be video of this thing running.
looks great.. good job.
Do you have a crankshaft Tdc mark? About to start my belt change, but don't have a Tdc mark on crankshaft flywheel since it is different. Just wondering how you did it.Sure, I will take some pictures of the coolant connections. I just used standard hose clamps for now. I am ordering some spring clamps soon. The clamps on the small bypass hose are the factory VW spring clamps.
I just finished making my own timing tools, but thank you for the offer. I couldnt bring myself to pay for the tools when I knew I could make them.
Homemade TDI timing tools.
Since the timing belt is done I decided to get to work on the firewall. I Primed and painted it today. There is a painted cover plate that fills the space and provides a place to mount my accelerator pedal. Since the TDI is drive by wire, I am stuck using the VW pedal. Its not ideal but I was able to cut it down and get it to fit without looking to ridiculous. Im not a fan of having to cut the firewall, but it is what it is. You cant see it when you're sitting in the front seat, or from the outside....so Im ok with it.
Any chance you made drawings/sketches that you'd share?Homemade TDI timing tools.
Brake input would be my first hunch as well, its been a while since I messed with it but the position of all the pedal switches can be viewed with VCDS, they show up as a 1 or a 0, this is viewable in measuring block 6. Here is some info on it from a thread I started about making cruise control work with an AHU,Thanks! Maybe you guys can help me out. When I hold the throttle around 1000-1500 rpm it will return to idle without me moving the pedal. If I hold it at say 2000 rpm it will stay there. Someone suggested it may be brake input overriding the throttle....???
I assume the ALH Is pretty similar, with the 2 circuit brake switch...First off I VAG-commed a friends Passat and poked around with a test light so I could see what changed in channel 6 (engine measuring blocks) when you hit the brakes, clutch, set button, turned the cruise on, and hit the resume button.
Here are the details on that,
Cruise off: 000 000000
Cruise on: 000 000001
the following are all with the cruise switch on:
Clutch pedal depressed: 100 100001
Brake pedal depressed: 011 010001
Set button while depressed: 000 000101
resume button while depressed: 000 001001
Brake pedal switch: 2 wires need to be connected to ground from a switch with 2 circuits, one circuit needs to be complete to ground when the pedal is not depressed (pin #20) and when the pedal is depressed pin #44 needs to become a complete circuit (and the pin #20 circuit needs to be broken at that same time. White with yellow stripe, pin #20 and black with red stripe, pin #44. According to some other info I found online one of those needed to be connected to 12V at the same time the other was grounded, but both hooked to ground worked for me.