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Beginning of this month I took it to Radwood show in L.A and noticed A/C wasn’t functioning,later on that week at home I found broken wires at A/C cluch coil. I was able to cross reference parts to Jeep models that used same A/C compressor and I found  everything on Ebay for reasonable amount of money.

I end up getting everything x2 just to have it in stock for next 405 I build,that way no need to wait for parts to show up.

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Lately it’s been really difficult to find spare time to work on my cars but finally I started to work on this oil sump set up from Peter Taylor from Australia. I should have it all removed and cleaned by Wednesday night.

I do have all gaskets,sealant,brake clean,engine oil and filter.

http://www.taylor-eng.com/

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Finally it’s finished! I end up cutting end of windage tray so oil pump chain can be installed on the sprocket with out removing front cover. A/C accumulator end up relocating to oil pan (same as on my GTI6 swapped wagon) and oil capacity with new filter is 7.5 quart’s. On GTI6 oil pan oil temp sensor is on opposite side so I had to extend the wire. I also end up using shorter bolts which is 35mm long vs original 40mm long, new oil pan sealing surface is not as thick as original so shorter bolts are needed.

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I just realized today that with this set up alternator/A/C pump belt is too long, I end up measuring with old belt and came up with 5PK1210 and original is 5PK1235.

I found Bando 5PK1210 on Ebay and I end up purchasing two of them just in case to have one extra spare, hopefully it’s here by Wednesday.

Probably should add that it was running today for 30 minutes and all looked good, no leaks of any kined ?  

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It does look pretty vulnerable - Any plans for a skid plate?  Most rally armour has gone to polyurethane sheet, but alloy probably looks nicer for the street...

And always so consistently CLEAN!  Nice work as usual...  :)

Rabin

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On 12/8/2018 at 5:49 AM, Bean said:

It does look pretty vulnerable - Any plans for a skid plate?  Most rally armour has gone to polyurethane sheet, but alloy probably looks nicer for the street...

And always so consistently CLEAN!  Nice work as usual...  :)

Rabin

Most likely not, as much as I drive it and how carful I am I doubt I’ll have any issues. My wagon was like this for 40.000 miles with out issues, I did rase it up quite a bit as It’s DD and still don’t have any issues going over speed bumps.

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I finally received my Euro bumpers, side skirts, door moldings, new fog lamps and other bits. Mr Paul Gritton is awesome person to deal with and he made wooden crate for me and bubble wrapped it all.

Everything is washed and ready for paint, I also took door chrome strips to powder coating (semi gloss black) and ordered universal front lip.

 

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I should also add minor changes to fuel system, new 6 microns larger ethanol compatible fuel filter and lower profile fitting for better clearance. My old fuel filter was mini billet 40 micron filter and it was just not good enough, it would not trap enough debris and they would end up on top of injectors where there would not be enough of fuel passage which would cause misfire and running lean conditions. On top of that might as well do oil change with factory filter.

 I’m still looking for functional fuel level sender.

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