Recent content by roadhard1960

The back of my engine has been getting oily the past 200,000 miles or so. Gets to be annoying but not drippy. EGR valve is also messy. So what is annoying is the car only has 700,000 miles on it. Never had the head off. Never had the oil pan off. So folks that have some real experience, how do...

Tensioner is spring loaded with a dampener. Nothing to adjust. Go to idparts.com, enter your vehicle information, search for tensioner to see what it looks like.

I had a squeak I could not find. When the alternator bearings seized up and started a fire I found the noise. That sounds like dry bearings someplace. Also there are bearings in the timing belt system that could go dry. Really you should not drive the car until you find the dry bearings fixing...

One supports the wire on the third injector. Clips around the vacuum pump that hold wires and hoses up. Probably some other clips I need to replace. I am having little luck looking on a VW parts website. Some VW dealer websites have little parts pictured. Others have some more but I am striking out.

Well that would be a bummer if it stops counting.

I bought my Jetta after Christmas 2002. 60+ oil changes, 6 timing belts, a few suspension refreshes, lots of tires. new injector bodies in the past year, injection pump replaced 200,000 miles ago, new alternator 250,000 miles ago (due for brushes and bearings). 610,000 miles on it without a head...

I get about 200,000 miles or more out of TT bushings on smooth roads. That would be 7 years or so. One thing nice about the Audi bushings is the control arm is less likely to flop around when worn compared with the original bushing that could even clunk when worn and torn.

I am due for my sixth timing belt on my car as I near 600,000 miles. Long in the tooth is an odd phrase. Change the belt regularly and it will not be long in the tooth. Hee Hee. Some parts of the country do not have rust issues so a car can go as long as you want it to go. A timing belt here...

To the guy that put a new regulator/brush pack in. I did the same thing. A year later I heard some noises but could not figure from where. My alternator started a fire. I happen to drink water when driving so I doused it with 2 liters of water after stopping and called a flatbed tow. I put in a...

When I get an alignment the first thing they do is center the steering wheel. OK, maybe the second thing after they connect the sensors to all 4 wheels. Then they do a before reading and if nothing looks weird they go on to adjust. I get a print out of before and after measurements. If their...

Where did you purchase the parts from? Explain your bleeding technique.

Have you checked both sides of the fuse holder? One side should have 12 volts, or 13 volts.

Was sticky grease applied to to the transmission input shaft? Did you slide the driven clutch disk on and off the input shaft before assembling everything to make sure it is able to properly slide?

Fuses are good inside the car?

I thought aluminum wheels were powder coated inside and out to reduce that leakage.