20thAE Build/Picture Thread

[MNShortBus]

Well a full weekend in the garage comes to an end. Spent all of Friday night and all day Saturday until 3am to get to this point. Sadly the car will not go into gear when the engine is running. The clutch feels fine and I think I spent a total of 2 hours bleeding the damn thing with no luck. The clutch isn't disengaging enough to allow me to change gears. In first the car crawls forward when starting and the pedal to the floor. It has to be just BARELY engaged.

Had a few friends help out and they heard what sounds like air moving through the lines when the pedal is brought back up from the floor during the bleeding process. The air sounds like it is entering the system through the bleed valve. Either the O-rings are shot or the valve just leaks. I'll be picking up another one of those tomorrow from the stealership and giving it another go on the hottest day of the summer.

Picture of the bleeder valve I am talking about.


Everything else went pretty smooth. Wiring was not as bad as I thought it would be. Once the harness is laid out to where it is kind of supposed to go things just start falling into place and coming together. Had a minor issue with the passenger side axle. Had to remove the wheel and drop the control arm to get it move up to bolt on to the transmission. There was also a coolant leak by the coolant temp sensor. A different o-ring to seems to have solved the problem now.

Did I mention it is crazy sounding at idle? I need to get a video.

Some pictures from the weekend.

Timing belt done






Money shot









Ready to go in the car. Lucky the car was low enough to where I could just slide the engine in and bolt it up!



In!










Whats up next and in the future:
Charge the AC system
Weld up the exhaust
Find a good spot for the catch can
IE Intake Manifold
80MM throttle body.
Bigger intercooler and new piping
OEM Euro FIS Cluster
MK6 Steering Wheel

[9jetta6]

perfect.

[MNShortBus]

so

much

detail!

[MNShortBus]

Called Westside VW to see if they have a new bleeder valve. They have one.

For $77. Ouch.

[JFettig]

As much as I hate ECS, they have one that some people like. I've never used it.


What paint did you use on your block?

[MNShortBus]

Are you talking about a power bleeder?


I just used some high temp flat black spray paint. Didn't have time to get something better.

[JFettig]

http://www.ecstuning.com/Search/1J0721468C/ES2215340/

I like the block paint, I'm going to have to find something flat black for my build.

[MNShortBus]

New bleeder valve didnt solve the problem. Turns out the slave that is sent with the clutch kit is modified. I used an OEM one because I thought they were the same.

Trans is coming out tonight to replace the slave and then going back in the car.

[MNShortBus]

New slave didn't solve the problem either. Taking the trans out again tonight to take a look at the clutch disk.

Hopefully I get some clear answers as to why I am having problems.

Sucks that the car runs beautifully and I can't even get it out of the garage.

[TwoTone]

Are you power bleeding the clutch system? Meaning pumping fluid through the bleeder?

[MNShortBus]

Just bleeding the standard way. The problem with the 6 speeds is the end of the line is not the bleeding point. The air has to travel up and out of the slave to the bleed valve once new fluid is pushed in.

[TwoTone]

I have never been able to bleed my 6 speed O2M by standard methods. This is not the exact pump I use but is very similar, put hose from pump on bleeder and it pumps the fluid up through the system. Has worked every time I bleed the system.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...uZ58&mvs=0#i=7

[MNShortBus]

Broken link is broken.

I am getting a power bleeder from Further Performance tonight.

Can you provide more steps on your method? Or is it really that simple? I just want to get this right before I remove the transmission for the 3rd time.

[JFettig]

What about pulling vacuum on the bleeder? You'd probably have to first pull the hose from the brake reservoir and plug it. Pull vacuum, close bleeder, add hose to bleeder filled with brake fluid, open bleeder and let it suck it in?

Just an idea.

[MNShortBus]

I could try that... There are a few different DIYs methods for doing this.

crappy diagram of the crappy system