1990 Golf GT G60 Syncro – My heaven and my Hell

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  • #6597
    Chris S
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    Is there a blanked hole on the pass side on the golf you could use?
    or could you make one with a hole saw?

    #6598
    Housey
    Participant

    if you read my post once more :) you’ll se my problem :) the problem is that the abs harness comes from the passengerside on the car, not on the drivers side as the passat (LHD) :)

    #6599
    Housey
    Participant

    anyways, took some pics today :)

    this is where i left it yesterday :)

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    and this is pretty much where i left it today :) damn this car has a lot of wires

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    hopefully not many days until this finds its way down under the hood :)
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    #6600
    Housey
    Participant

    makes me wonder if i’m just going to ditch the abs crap and go with regular brake booster and master cylinder

    #6601
    Chris S
    Moderator

    Sorry, I read it wrong.

    If you pull the original motor & box out and you will have soo much more space to work in, then a solution to the wiring problem may become evident, if not I have a “passenger side” EDL wiring harness I will swap you for your drivers side one, if you want to pay the postage both ways?

    #6602
    Housey
    Participant

    i’m in the thinkig corner, wondering if i’m going to remove the abs completly. 9″ booster with sharan master cyl

    #6603
    Chris S
    Moderator

    Skyping with you and Pascal now [:)]

    #6604
    Housey
    Participant

    oh yeah, theres a ****load of pics here: http://foto-garasjen.net/bilder/syncro/

    many which is not posted :) but for your enjoyment, here they are :P

    #6605
    Housey
    Participant

    did some more today, not much tho, only took out the abs unit :) not too much job :)

    started the evening by emptying the brake reservoir using my good friend, the vakuum driven brake bleeder :) (genious tool)

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    when the reservoir was just about empty (can’t empty all if it it seems). then i removed the 3 nuts that secure the bracket for the abs unit (3 13mm from the inside of the car)

    when that was done, i took the brake lines of (3 in total)

    and then just pulled it out :)

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    oh yeah, and started to strip some of the interior too, need to remove the seats and the carpet, makes it soo much easier to run wires

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    heres the old abs unit :)

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    #6606
    Housey
    Participant

    A really short day today, too tired from all the working these days :P

    but, I managed to get the main engine harness out :) crappy job tho. cut myself when I pushed open the rubber seal though the body as well
    :(

    #6607
    Housey
    Participant

    so, been doing some more work today :) took the dash out preparing for a heatercore replacement (and making it easier to run the wires for the conversion)

    anyhow, lets start with some pics of my garage (pretty messy one too) :)

    this is “my” corner
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    and here is the corner for two of my friends who i share this garage with
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    and a small pic of the enginebay, which needs a good cleaning :)

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    heres the complete engine wiring harness for the 1P engine, totaly uncut and in good condition :)
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    and last photo of the day, interior carnage :P lol
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    #6613
    Housey
    Participant

    engine is finally out :)

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    needs a lot of cleaning, and some rust-removing under the battery. and then the modifications for the new transmission with hydraulic clutch assembly

    heres the old sucker, no one actually knows how far its been driven, but somwhere between 250 000 and 400 000km. but thats just a guess

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    i’ve also ordered a new cambelt and tensioner for the G60 engine :) better to be safe then sorry i guess

    #6614
    Housey
    Participant

    started something really boring today, cleaning the enginebay :)

    didn’t finish, because i got bored. but, i’ll finish it one day

    some pics too, one before and one after todays little work

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    #6622
    Housey
    Participant

    well, took the K-frame from the golf of, just to clean it up, mount the passat servo unit and passat control-arms..

    mounted it back together yesterday, but forgot to fit the swaybar (stupid me)

    so, today, i was going to do this, mount the swaybar from the passat, but, that just does not fit, there is no way its going to fit using the Golf Frame and Passat arms. and the Golf swaybar wont fit with the passat arms..

    so. what are people doing when they make the golf widetrack at the front?

    heres some pics i took (i didn’t measure the passat vs the golf arms in lenght, but its obvious that the passat frame is wider)

    heres the golf k-frame, with golf swaybar and passat controlarm and steering rack
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    and heres the kframe with the passat swaybar, as you can see, it just CAN’T fit
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    heres a closeup of on of the sides when the passat swaybar is on
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    heres the golf swaybar with passat control arm, does not line up, even tho that eye-bushing-tingy broke when i took it of the golf arms

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    #6625
    Housey
    Participant

    Did some measuring on the front subframe today

    Control arms side by side
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    The golf Control arms are 390mm long
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    The passat control arms are 415mm long
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    The Golf swaybar is 1130mm long
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    The passat swaybar is 1145mm long
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    So, it seems to me that using the passat controlarms with golf subframe and swaybar should work

    the passat swaybar won’t fit :)

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    total width of subframe with the golf control arms is 1350mmish
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    total width of subframe with the passat control arms is 1385mmish
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