So instead of finishing my SC, I've been working on my 2001 VW Jetta the last 3 months. It's my daily driver and I still owe on it so I had to fix it.
In November, it was overheating, bubbles coming out of the reservoir, water in the oil, etc. Headgasket, right? Of course. So I dig in and tear it apart. Not and easy job like it is on an SC. German engineering means ridiculously over engineered and complicated with specialized fasteners which require dealer only tools. So I worked on it the last part of November, all through my Christmas Break (which was 2 weeks) and just finished it a couple weeks ago. It cost me about $500 out of pocket and tons of miserable work in freezing cold darkness of Michigan. Last night I went for the first lengthy test drive and it did the exact same thing as it did before. Overheating, bubbles, chocolate pudding for oil.
I really just wanted to crash that miserable piece of precision engineering into a big oak tree and walk away from the whole mess.
The guys on the VW forum think it's my oil cooler. That would explain everything but the bubbles which I interpreted as combustion gasses in the coolant. It's acting like a cracked head or block but they say those engines never do that. I think I just did the HG on my VW for nothing.
If I weren't me, I would kick my a$$ for putting me through all that.
In November, it was overheating, bubbles coming out of the reservoir, water in the oil, etc. Headgasket, right? Of course. So I dig in and tear it apart. Not and easy job like it is on an SC. German engineering means ridiculously over engineered and complicated with specialized fasteners which require dealer only tools. So I worked on it the last part of November, all through my Christmas Break (which was 2 weeks) and just finished it a couple weeks ago. It cost me about $500 out of pocket and tons of miserable work in freezing cold darkness of Michigan. Last night I went for the first lengthy test drive and it did the exact same thing as it did before. Overheating, bubbles, chocolate pudding for oil.
I really just wanted to crash that miserable piece of precision engineering into a big oak tree and walk away from the whole mess.
The guys on the VW forum think it's my oil cooler. That would explain everything but the bubbles which I interpreted as combustion gasses in the coolant. It's acting like a cracked head or block but they say those engines never do that. I think I just did the HG on my VW for nothing.
If I weren't me, I would kick my a$$ for putting me through all that.