My 1992 GTI

I'd much rather torque to spec than just crank the hell out of it. Removing it should be possible with a pipe wrench, but it has threadlocker, so maybe not very easily.

Tie rod was cake, and so was the axle. It took me longer to install the new tie rod boot than to swap the tie rod.

Some jerk wrote on my dirty old wheels, haha:
http://imageshack.us/a/img716/8528/i...6152058188.jpg

So I replaced them:
http://imageshack.us/a/img138/5710/i...6184014902.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img593/4240/i...6172534702.jpg

Old wheel/tire weight:
http://imageshack.us/a/img577/5695/i...6161257969.jpg

New wheel/tire weight:
http://imageshack.us/a/img843/513/im...6160006636.jpg

I've got the alignment at 1/32" toe out, about -1.5* camber in the front, and the rear at 0.8* of camber. Feels superb, and rolls really nicely now.

Looking good.

Transmission is stuck in 3rd gear. Hurray. Trying to pick up a replacement on Sunday ~3 hours each way...

Pulled the trans last night:

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The clutch thankfully appears to be as new as the PO says it is:

http://imageshack.us/a/img15/8838/im...6203321222.jpg

VW in its natural habitat:

http://imageshack.us/a/img838/4463/i...6210220896.jpg

Drained the trans and pulled the diff kit tonight. The fluid is tasty...

http://imageshack.us/a/img593/5018/i...7211056118.jpg

Transmission is in :) My self-adjusting clutch cable broke, so we tried to swap in a manual adjust cable and ran into silly issues and I was tired so I went to bed lol. My brother finished swapping my clutch cable for me today. Just drove to class, new (used) trans + delrin shifter bushings = tranny sex... wait, what? seriously though, it feels great. The manual adjust cable feels like poo, but I'll deal with it for now. New self-adjusting cables are expensive and likely to break, plus they can make the clutch not fully engage.

Drink it!

No thanks, haha

On the 3SPA cruise last weekend my clutch bolts backed out and the pressure plate fused to the crank and then fell off and damaged the end of the crank. I fixed that, but the damage done to the thrust washers by me forcing the clutch pedal down ruined the bearings and they ate the crank. So...

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1...2191735924.jpg

New crank is pulled from the short block my brother picked up yesterday. Forged cranks ftw.

I'm thinking I can install it and then bolt the trans up and do the timing belt to get that stuff out of the way. Swapping bearings is relatively easy with that stuff done.

Backed out?

Yep, moron PO reused stretch bolts that bolt the pressure plate to the crankshaft.