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tmoney20g
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hammonton,
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3/29/15:
Spent yesterday with local dsmr Nick and his 1990 Talon Tsi AWD, we put revised lifters in, new gates water pump, crankshaft main seal and oil pump sprocket seal, as well as new Gates blue timing belt. We also found out some interesting blobs of red rtv everywhere from the previous owner, which wasn't good, as well as the long water pump bolt was sheared off a few millimeters into the head, and since that's such a long bolt, the length of the bolt itself was being used as torsion to keep the alternator tensioner arm tensioned. The location of that bolt won't allow a normal drill in there, unless we pull the motor, so we had to put that broken bolt back the way it was, with the new water pump, and just hope for the best.
Today I was tinkering with mounting brackets some more, and remade the one for the power transistor bigger, so I could remote mount the fuel pressure gauge. Reason being mounting the fuel pressure gauge right on the AFPR, as we all normally would, interfered with the Nissan Evap valve I'll be using for my ISC. So larger, painted bracket completed:
Gauge is remote mounted using a 1/8npt to -3an 90 at the afpr, 18" 3an braided ss line over to the bracket, and a 1/8npt to -3an brake line adapter. The brake line adapter is nice because it allowed me to drill the proper size hole in the mounting bracket, push it thru the bracket, and use a typical brake line clip to hold it in place, just like the ones I replaced on all the brake lines earlier in the thread.
Now that just about everything is mounted in the engine bay, electrically, I can get back to wire routing/looming the ECU harness next weekend.
Spent yesterday with local dsmr Nick and his 1990 Talon Tsi AWD, we put revised lifters in, new gates water pump, crankshaft main seal and oil pump sprocket seal, as well as new Gates blue timing belt. We also found out some interesting blobs of red rtv everywhere from the previous owner, which wasn't good, as well as the long water pump bolt was sheared off a few millimeters into the head, and since that's such a long bolt, the length of the bolt itself was being used as torsion to keep the alternator tensioner arm tensioned. The location of that bolt won't allow a normal drill in there, unless we pull the motor, so we had to put that broken bolt back the way it was, with the new water pump, and just hope for the best.
Today I was tinkering with mounting brackets some more, and remade the one for the power transistor bigger, so I could remote mount the fuel pressure gauge. Reason being mounting the fuel pressure gauge right on the AFPR, as we all normally would, interfered with the Nissan Evap valve I'll be using for my ISC. So larger, painted bracket completed:
Gauge is remote mounted using a 1/8npt to -3an 90 at the afpr, 18" 3an braided ss line over to the bracket, and a 1/8npt to -3an brake line adapter. The brake line adapter is nice because it allowed me to drill the proper size hole in the mounting bracket, push it thru the bracket, and use a typical brake line clip to hold it in place, just like the ones I replaced on all the brake lines earlier in the thread.
Now that just about everything is mounted in the engine bay, electrically, I can get back to wire routing/looming the ECU harness next weekend.