Well, most of them! I figured out why I couldn't the darn thing ('82 Westy now with 1986 Golf CIS engine) to run - I had it 180 degrees out of timing! I thought for sure that I had checked that months ago, but somehow it must have slipped by. Today I pulled the valve cover and watched the valves as it hit TDC - sure enough, I had it wrong. Set it up right (and fixed the oil leak from the valve cover) and it fired right up. It sounds a little rough, overheats, and there's a vacuum leak from somewhere (possibly the intake manifold itself?!) but it runs. Tomorrow I'm going to bleed the cooling system, adjust the mixture, and try and locate the vacuum leak. Hopefully, I'll at least take it for a quick spin around the block. By the way, for those of you who have done such conversions before, what did you use for the brake booster vacuum line? I attached some hose between the rear nipple on the manifold and the brake booster line, but it's too flexible.Obviously a trip to Home Depot is in order... Thanks for all the help so far. Matt ------------------------------------- Matt Ratto Ph.D. Candidate University of California, San Diego mratto@ucsd.edu http://communication.ucsd.edu/mratto -------------------------------------- |
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