As some of you may know, I blew the oil pump on my valver engine about 3 weeks ago. Why it went at 100mph in 4th gear when the engine has done 177k I don't know
I went out the very next day and got a new oil pump... unfortunately, the factors gave me one for a digital fuel injection 16v and so the shaft was completely wrong. I mean, do I look like the kind of guy that minces about with half of PC world running my engine?
So, I get the right pump and I set about gathering a mother of a torque wrench and some bearings to crack on:
Here are my old shells, and my ULTRA BARN TECHNIQUE dinner knife I bent into a curve to hook out the top bearings with. Yes, I tried to do the main bearings with the engine still in the car.
Anyhoo, the shells were warped harder than MWF's frame of mind, so I sourced a rebuilt lump (show car engine on about 10k) and bought it. I had a pic of this in the back of my Fiat Uno but it was just too gratuitously barn to show.
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Here's the golf engine bay, everything disconnected: wiring loom, exhaust, driveshafts, my sanity:
Yes, I _am_ proud of how shinee that inner wing came up

You can also see my hired help standing in the background.
As I had taken the head off the engine, I was kinda stuck as to how to attach the chain and hoist to pull out the rest of it:
I rang Miles @ Storm Developments in Basingstoke and they said a chain between the sump pan and gearbox housing (I.e. right between the two, in the ass crack if you will) would be fine, so I did that:
I had serious problems pulling it out the top of the bay as the gearbox kept catching on the chassis rails, so in the end I unbolted the front crossmember and pulled it out the front
Here is my uber mega hi-tech workshop aka garage floor where I barned the gearbox off the shonky lump...
And onto the new lovely engine:
You can't really see in this photo but as the new engine was taller than just my old block I had to SuperBarn a bike lock onto the chain to make the strap long enough to wrap around the whole new engine. I also tied the engine to the crane at the bottom and the side to stop harmonic resonance in the movement of the crane creating destructional vibrational damage to the engine:
They call mi Mista BarnTastic:
The driveshaft decided to go all homo and get it's inner CV ass stuck between the gearbox case and the wishbone, so I had to pull the whole hub out and away from the car to free it:
This is how it stands now, all wired back up albeit without a cooling system, just for testing purposes. Exhaust manifold blows a bit so it doesn't idle _at all_ as vw seemed to have tuned the length of the pipes so that any discrepancy in air pressure and it will just not idle. It revs like a beast though and even whistles above 4k (might be to do with loose vacuum pipe

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And this is my reward for a good weekend's work!