today got it all buttoned up for now. put the new serp belt and tensioner on. the rattle is gone and so is the battery light. i filled up the coolant, no leaks! after that did the oil/filter.
they look different because the new one had a pin in it, keeping the tensioner compressed making it easier to put the new belt on. it helped, until i had to try and hold the wrench on and then remove the pin.
this is where the horrible ticking was coming from, beat bushing
the tensioner wasn’t bad at all. i didn’t realize the pulley for the ps pump had to come off. it wasn’t hard, just kinda inconvenient haha
i drove it around for a bit afterwards. the check light was off then came back on. went to the store, came out, started the car up and it was off again! i was super stoked. but of course by the time i got back home it came on again haha
I’ll deff look into it. I gave the car back for now so she could get to school/work. She’s gonna bring it back so I can do the abs sensor, Ill see if she wants her winter wheels on while I’m at it lol
Do they have rebuild cartridges for it? If so just rebuild it and add a batmowheel compressor wheel if they make one for it, noticed a considerable drop in spool time with it in my old Dmax
Not sure, didn’t really look into it yet. She took the car off the road for winter. I’ll be waiting for her to buy new injectors,and then lookin into the turbo
The wheel speed sensors are cake to do. In the rear-check to see if the ring that’s on the hub is rusty and out of round as if it is you’ll need to fix those. Easiest thing-throw on a new rear hub as that includes the ring and takes about 5 minutes. Passanger side air bag ignitor-if my shitty memory is correct-I had to swap in a seat belt when one of my cars had that code. You have to pull off the plastic trim over inside on the rockers, the trim that covers the B pillar, and some other little bs. As for you CEL codes-no idea as I’m well versed in TDi’s. All I’ve ever done to them are glow plugs and harnesses.
well, finally tackled some more issues! got rid of the CEL! I bought a turbo rebuild kit, wg and the other 3 stock injectors that needed to be changed after i changed one of the pp520s that were in the car. i also have a new stock ecu on the way. on to some rusty/rot hole wg and dirty turbo! (I used this as a guide for the turbo rebuild http://www.uniquecoaches.com/upholstery.html)
it really wasn’t too bad. the only pita part, was getting the cast parts, apart. it was a lot of heating/cooling. starts, and runs good now, can hear the turbo spoolin up now that theres no holes in the wg haha
still gotta put the axle in that i had to remove to drop the turbo out. also, the flex pipe has started to come apart. the meshy part slid down, ill prolly end up just wrapping it with exhaust wrap i got kicking around for now. i mite do cat delete, the exhaust in general is rusty and shitty all except the side pipe.
i have a lot of other bs work i’ll be doing… got a new driver rear door, trunk, side mirror covers (chromy ones have to go), clean up foggy headlights, adjust shifter cables, misc bushings. just another never ending project haha
new ecu is in, had sasquach (thanks again dude!) stop by with vagcom to double check to see if it was coded for a 5 speed. Gotta get a jump on the other bs that needs to be done and get it reg/ins and start getting some diesel mpgzzzzzzz!
after that did the oil/filter.
