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So after killing my CS engine by cracking the head, I decided the 1Y would be be easiest upgrade for my first engine swap.
Have read lots of posts on the subject and I'm sure ill be asking lots of questions too.
I'm not in a rush to do the change and this might take a while, but I want to do a decent job and change seals etc to reduce future maintenance/repairs.
I have my old CS lump still in the camper and I now have a 1993 Golf sat on my driveway with the donor 1Y in it. It runs fine and sounds ok. Have given it a quick clean so that I can run it for a while to check for oil leaks etc.

The donor has a Bosch injection pump

And a Bosch alternator

Which at 70 Amps is 5 Amps more powerful than the alternator on the CS.

I quite like the alternator setup with the big pulley and spring loaded.

Good luck,

Ringo

Any ideas on how you are going to tackle the oil dip stick and the injection pump lever?

Ringo

Was just thinking of transferring the bits from my current engine.

So today I've picked up an engine stand off lloydy. Very nice chap, even nicer van. Think my next one might be a syncro!

keytouch wrote:Think my next one might be a syncro!

I think that's the second most used line on here...just after

what oil should I use mineral or synthetic

keytouch wrote:So today I've picked up an engine stand off lloydy. Very nice chap, even nicer van. Think my next one might be a syncro!

thanks, good luck doing the conversion. I'm sure it will go fine

nevill3 wrote:

what oil should I use mineral or synthetic

So what oil should I put in a 1Y whilst you mention it?

theyll run on anything really...sunflower oil...old chip oil..snake oil...even LARD

Might give Oil of Olay a try then

no thats the synthetic stuff..you need oil of Ulay

Just trying to disconnect everything to remove old engine. But what's this cylindrical thing with a pipe coming from it?

thats your vacuum servo thingy. feeds your brake servo basically

Thanks
Didn't see any mention of that in the Bentley manual engine removal page.

Do I just disconnected it by undoing it?