Heater radiator back in!

No smell ... this might be a bit toxic.

New radiator works great!

Output of black box now comes directly into passenger compartment.

Plastic side control vents were inoperable many years ago. Plastic side vents disintegrated years ago.

Heater fix horrible job only took about 2-3 days! About as a clutch job ... which has been done on grey rabbit three times since the 1.8 liter Fox engine was installed.

Clutch springs broke #*$!.

After the black heater box was split, we learned that the heater radiator can be removed by sliding it out from the side.

This is the way the heater radiator was installed.

Saturday morning anti-freeze was observed leaking from grey rabbit. Oh dear! A misteak made?

Note green elongated digital drip coming from top radiator hose under red wire!

Our Fuji A340 doesn't work very well for action shots.

The flex hose was replaced with a molded hose. All is fine!

In about 1998 grey rabbit was passing Mountain Home, ID on the freeway.

Windshield wipers had a problem They would turn on with the switch, but wouldn't turn off.

Solution was to press the clutch in, turn off the engine, then restart the engine by releasing the clutch.

This caused the fan belt to break in Mountain Home, which in turn cause the upper molded hose to burst.

Grey rabbit slowly limped into Mountain Home after a gallon of coolant was bought at a K-Mart.

Flex hose and fan belt were installed in a parking place.

Grey rabbit returned to Albuquerque from Pullman, WA.

Grey rabbit, after travelling about 2,300 miles to west Yellowstone and return in October got its oil and filter changed on Saturday December 3, 2005 on return from desert for essential travel beer can shoot.

That's lemonade. And a 12 ton Harbor Freight press to the right.

Here's coming in to Los Lunas, NM

While changing oil the owner of

came over to visit and ask questions about grey rabbit's msd ignition.

The sirocco owner said that he recently installed a 2.0 liter engine in his sirocco.

Sirocco owner also said he bought another 16 valve head from a vw recycler [junk yard] which he plans of port and polish.

We warn you on 16 valve vw heads



from JC Whitney catalog

as we have on vw diesels.

Bill showed sirocco owner Raven's book and gave him printed link to this page.

Bill showed sirocco owner were Raven said a 2.0 would not fit in a rabbit.

Sirocco owner said that the fit was tight but that it worked.

Another guy claimed to have put a 2.0 in a rabbit.

Read what Raven wrote.

Bill read a borrowed copy Raven's book book at Discount Auto before making the decision to do a 1.8.

1995 white Honda's lifters are making noise. So Sunday December 4, 2005 bill bought

and followed the instructions.

CRANKCASE: Use 8 ounces of B-12 Chemtool for 6 or 8 cylinder gasoline engines. On four cylinder gasoline engines use 6 ounces. With engine stopped and preferably cool, add B-12 Chemtool to engine oil. Start engine and let idle for 3 to 5 minutes. Drain oil immediately. Change oil filter and add recommend oil. B-12 Chemtool vaporizes immediately to clean all internal engine surfaces, dissolving gum varnish.

Bill used B-12 several times in grey rabbit's 1.7 liter engine.

Old instructions were to let engine idle for, if senior citizen memory [45 days younger than Saddam] is correct, 12-20 minutes before changing oil and filter.

Grey rabbit ran better after procedure but started to leave a blue cloud after deceleration, then acceleration.

Grey rabbit's compression dropped from about 120-30 psi to about 100 psi.

Grey rabbit's engine was rebuilt once.

Rebuilding an engine twice is not recommended by those who are supposed know.

When the 1.7 was removed, it sure was clean inside! Maybe too clean!

Moral is to be very careful using B-12 chemtool!!!

Let's try to email Berryman a link to this page!

For Several years bill smelled coolant when the heat was switched on. Now the driver-side of the windshield fogs.

The ignition switch has to be progressively be turned further clockwise to engage the starter motor.

So the next rabbit projects are about ready to start.

Ernie at Discount Auto gave bill instructions on how to fix both.

$66.95 for the radiator and $14.95 for the ignition switch.

We do projects at these sites as opposed to accumulating knowledge.

There's heater blower [with a noisy bearing] above the msd ignition. See yellow and white wires.

The plastic tube and rubber connector had to be removed to access the heater hoses.

Here's the heater before removal.

Lots of stuff has to be removed to get the heater out!

That's it laying on its side with two hose connections sticking out at the far right.

The heater blower motor is grounded behind the fuze box! That's a Taz mat.

The heater controls had to be removed.

Here's the heater core.

Note leaves on work table to left of leaking core.

The heater plastic box was literally filled with leaves some of which fell out on removal.

This is probably the reason heaters and air conditioners don't work as well on older cars.

Plastic in grey rabbit is super-brittle - maybe like some senior citizen bones?

One damper lever was broken on removal.

It was J-B Weld glued with a paperclip reinforcment.

This and two other glued plastic parts were popped in the oven at 175 degrees F for a little over an hour, then allowed to further cure over night.

The words of Art Garcia

If you had to pay someone to fix your vw, then you couldn't afford to own one.

keep coming back.