Monday, July 20, 2009

Not very motivated right now

Sorry to say, but I haven't done much on the Cobra of late. The Passat is STILL giving me troubles. I did receive the oil pressure line. I spent about 10 minutes putting its pieces together and is shown in this picture.


Today, I installed it onto the engine block. Here is a poor pic showing the port hole for the line, located between the oil filter and the fuel pump.

Unfortunately, there was almost no way to get any tools on this line, so I ended up taking off both the filter and the pump. No problem on the filter, but the pump is a bear to get back on. I knew I needed to do so, because I had not put on the gasket originally. Right now, the project that I was hoping would take no more than 10 minutes has gone on about an hour and a half, with no completion in sight. It is just very hard to get that fuel pump back in place with the fuel and power steering lines in place. I really need a third hand or at least a 9/16" nut driver, which is actually quite rare.

I also took some pictures of the shifter kit parts. Here they are...