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by silverbullet
Yesterday, 19:45
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Oettinger T3 datasheets or owners club? need info on brakes!
Replies: 4
Views: 176

Re: Oettinger T3 datasheets or owners club? need info on brakes!

PPS please join the club fully and then share some pics of your rear hub/bearing carriers ;)
by silverbullet
Yesterday, 19:43
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Oettinger T3 datasheets or owners club? need info on brakes!
Replies: 4
Views: 176

Re: Oettinger T3 datasheets or owners club? need info on brakes!

PS there is a Oettinger T3 (and Nothelle) facebook group, I am one of the mods. Its a very small community with 99% T3 content.
by silverbullet
Yesterday, 19:39
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Oettinger T3 datasheets or owners club? need info on brakes!
Replies: 4
Views: 176

Re: Oettinger T3 datasheets or owners club? need info on brakes!

The Oettinger brakes are a mash-up of Mercedes discs with BMW/ATE calipers. I have the syncro set (different front discs I think) but the rears are incomplete, no adaptors. I'd like to reinstate them but will use my Sharan disc conversion for now. I had been told that the rear discs were actually re...
by silverbullet
25 Mar 2024, 19:33
Forum: T25 Alternative Engine Forum
Topic: Golf Mk4 "APK" engine conversion
Replies: 39
Views: 10849

Re: Golf Mk4

It was interesting at the time
by silverbullet
24 Mar 2024, 19:29
Forum: T25 Alternative Engine Forum
Topic: Golf Mk4 "APK" engine conversion
Replies: 39
Views: 10849

Re: Golf Mk4

Its still just a 115HP, 170Nm @2400rpm four pot. Barely adequate for a heavy van other than a slightly better torque spread compared to a DJ and pulls from 1500rpm. I'd go for a 150hp 20vt swap if I was shopping for a low maintenance conversion, which won't kick the shizzle out of the transaxle in f...
by silverbullet
20 Mar 2024, 20:01
Forum: T25 Alternative Engine Forum
Topic: Golf Mk4 "APK" engine conversion
Replies: 39
Views: 10849

Re: Golf Mk4

2.0 8v in a Golf Mk4 Gti, this one was V reg iirc. The engine was fitted to a T3 and converted to auto using FAS parts from the USA. Not a cheap conversion but a complete kit is available.
by silverbullet
06 Oct 2023, 12:12
Forum: Electrical & Instrumentation
Topic: Rev counter
Replies: 5
Views: 2552

Re: Rev counter

You won't blow a healthy DG with excessive revs, I have sent one to 7k+ with no ill effects when the throttle cable iced up in a hard winter.
The hard bit is knowing if you have a healthy one.
by silverbullet
29 Sep 2023, 12:57
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Engine number confusion
Replies: 24
Views: 3012

Re: Engine number confusion

Vege registered in Tunisia for tax purposes? I maybe should have said European folk culture to satisfy the pedants, but historically the low countries share many roots and ideas going back millennia. Borders move around but myths and beliefs have no boundaries ;)
by silverbullet
29 Sep 2023, 12:49
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Distributor drive removal issue, 1990 DG
Replies: 1
Views: 580

Re: Distributor drive removal issue, 1990 DG

If everything is clean and you engine isnt coked up with oxidized oil, you should be able to lift out the drive spindle using a strong magnet. Be gentle when lifting it (it needs to be tickled out) because the two thrust washers that support the spindle usually stick to it and they do not clear the ...
by silverbullet
28 Sep 2023, 19:48
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Engine number confusion
Replies: 24
Views: 3012

Re: Engine number confusion

Hares figure heavily in German folklore, in fact that applies to a lot of European mythology but also features in ancient Chinese and Japanese beliefs.
I still say its a leaping hare with its ears trailing.
by silverbullet
28 Sep 2023, 08:59
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Engine number confusion
Replies: 24
Views: 3012

Re: Engine number confusion

Thats the most interesting thing I have seen on here for a long time.
by silverbullet
25 Sep 2023, 19:54
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: R9 fuel hose inner lining blocking hose?
Replies: 9
Views: 1292

Re: R9 fuel hose inner lining blocking hose?

Cohline every time. I had some new EV14 injectors come supplied with Gates Barricade tails and it was awful looking stuff made in Mexico, wasn't even circular in section!
by silverbullet
25 Sep 2023, 19:51
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: Repeated Head Gasket failure
Replies: 10
Views: 1313

Re: Repeated Head Gasket failure

I bet the "engine builders" are one of the usual recycling outfits.
by silverbullet
24 Sep 2023, 17:23
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: R9 fuel hose inner lining blocking hose?
Replies: 9
Views: 1292

Re: R9 fuel hose inner lining blocking hose?

R9 isn't ethanol proof so thats your problem right there.
by silverbullet
19 Sep 2023, 06:13
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: what is this hook for ??
Replies: 15
Views: 6760

Re: what is this hook for ??

I think you'll find that its a support for the heater hose - the smallest one in your photo - that appears to be twisted around the next smallest coolant hose.