Saturday, May 16, 2009

Tightened Steering

I hadn’t touched the Scirocco for a couple weeks after cleaning the engine bay. It looks a lot better, I can see metal rather than gunk. Today I cleaned a lot of the parts I had pulled out and so didn’t get washed with the engine bay. I also did a bunch of testing and inspecting of various components. I’m tying to put together an order for what needs replacing. I think I’ve covered a good deal of what is inspect-able except for the suspension and steering components. I need to get the car back up on the jack stands to get underneath and examine those. I think that all of the axle components and repacking of the wheel bearings and CV joints will wait until after the car is running again. Make sure everything in the engine bay is good and then put it up on jack stands and deal with the rest. It means I may need multiple orders for parts, but that’s ok.

I also installed the new steering column bearing that I purchased a while back. I don’t have a driver’s seat in the car to test it too much, but it seems to be much improved other the previous wobbly steering wheel.

Hopefully I can do some more inspection of parts tomorrow and then get an order underway shortly.

• Posted by jfs at 21:53:00 in Scirocco
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