Dirty Diesel 1981 Rabbit
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Re: Dirty Diesel 1981 Rabbit
Naw... I'll go dig one out from up at leifs or just hack into it. I've got enough stuff to fab something up. Come check out my patch panel progress.
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trust me, it will crush like a tin can anyways! and insured value is worth less than two cold hot dogs that fell and rolled in the dirt. i like the no bumper or euro bumper look, neither of these or the stockers will save the car even in a 15mph crash.
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There is no difference between "shifter boxes" its just a rod through a plastic balled housing, the linkage is also from the five seep, different sized rods and linkage, so the problem lies within the actual adjustment, I usually use my fat sausage fingers as adjustment increments for the adjustment, so since fifth is blocked or "walled" it needs to be tilted more the left from underneath, the adjustment is a 13mm nut and bolt underneath the car next to the rear motor mount,
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alittle playing shell be tight!
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I know this.. haha. I had a bumperless 81 2 door when i was in Laramie for Wyotech. These cars are tin cans.. But it's for "peace of mind" for my father. Plus he does it all legal and such..kompressorgolf wrote:trust me, it will crush like a tin can anyways! and insured value is worth less than two cold hot dogs that fell and rolled in the dirt. i like the no bumper or euro bumper look, neither of these or the stockers will save the car even in a 15mph crash.
Got my T-Belt, Head Gasket, And new head all ready to go. Gonna get her up and going tonight.. Stay tuned

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Scratch that, wrong headgasket... I need a 4 notch small port, napa gave me a 3 notch big port... sdghfsghadfasjkldhf 

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Gonna see if i can find a headgasket locally. So hopefully progress soon. Got a lot of projects going on currently
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"The #3 rod end cap came off, and was sitting in the pan. The rod was whacking around like a 13 yr old with a Victoria's Secret catalog."
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"The #3 rod end cap came off, and was sitting in the pan. The rod was whacking around like a 13 yr old with a Victoria's Secret catalog."
"It takes a few seconds to get to holy-sh!t, but oh-my-god comes up pretty fast."
Re: Dirty Diesel 1981 Rabbit
Got it running today. Run's out pretty well. Anyone know of someone good at adjusting injection pumps in the hamilton, missoula area? It needs to be tuned pretty bad.
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Joe at reliance automotive in hamilton.hpbear101 wrote:Got it running today. Run's out pretty well. Anyone know of someone good at adjusting injection pumps in the hamilton, missoula area? It needs to be tuned pretty bad.
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Thanks, I'll give him a ring and see what he can do for us.
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