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  • in reply to: Country bull bar #21435
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    actually – if any country owners would be willing to give me an idea of the tube dimensions and perhaps send a couple of more detailed pics of how it attaches to the front etc, I rather fancy having a go at replicating these to fit a regular syncro/golf.

    I’m thinking to also extend it down to the subframe and have some sort of skid-plate to offer some protection to the sump etc too (from kerbs in my case).

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    in reply to: Country bull bar #21433
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    how did you get on with this?

    I’m actually looking to make one of these too as I doubt the country one would fit my syncro even if I could find one. I’m looking to end up with something along these lines..

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    in reply to: VW Festival 2017 – We want you guys! #21412
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    hi El, welcome to the site… I’ve made this post sticky so that as many people see it as possible. Hope that helps 🙂

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    in reply to: LD50’s syncro… attempt #2, now #3 – It moves ;) #21399
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    so the rear lights being constantly on I’m so far none the wiser on. Poked around to see if i could see anything obvious (i couldn’t), unplugged all the fuses one by one to see if it was related to one of those (it wasn’t).

    The main lights don’t work either and given the fusebox not making a difference I’m thinking something’s got plugged in where it shouldn’t have and it’s shorting to light the rear lights.

    I also tried to trace the power starting from the rear lights but only with limited success. I guess digging into lighting harness debugging is the next stage of this..\o/

    I’m interested in taking this for some light offroad/gravel/mud so at some point recently I also wound all the coilovers up a bunch to give a bit more ground clearance, more suspension travel & add some preload. With the lower-part of the front bumper removed it’s got pretty good and even clearance whilst hopefully still keeping the CoG relatively low.

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    in reply to: LD50’s syncro… attempt #2, now #3 – It moves ;) #21391
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    as it stands currently…

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    in reply to: LD50’s syncro… attempt #2, now #3 – It moves ;) #21389
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    have temporarily plumbed in the +vw black to an ignition-switched lead and it seems to work fine. Will attach it permanently next time.

    Engine now starts, runs and idles as you would expect a 16v to. It was hunting a bit but that seemed to be to do with the overrun valve which kept switching. Will investigate in due course but for now I disconnected the overrun valve/switch thing and it seemed to run perfectly after that.

    We also now have oil temp/pressure sensors (I think)..so no more no-oil-buzzer.

    I’m now waiting for a coolant temp sensor off ebay to modify my non-sensor tank. I guess I must have used my original syncro tank on one of the other golfs in the mean time.

    There’s a bit of exhaust/smoke coming from somewhere near the downpipe, suspect dodgy gasket so will replace that and see if that helps.

    The rear lights seem to be permanently on as soon as the battery is connected, so have yet to figure out why that is but I think there’s only that. a lick of paint and a rear brake service left to do before we could potentially start thinking about going for an mot. which is awesome.

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    in reply to: LD50’s syncro… attempt #2, now #3 – It moves ;) #21388
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    ok well after a bit of fiddling I actually got the ISV to buzz and guess what? it idles now 🙂

    It seems like the black wire from the isv relay is some sort of positive. I would imagine switched with the ignition.

    I cleaned out a couple of the ISVs with carb cleaner and that possibly helped a bit too.

    Currently the black wire is just poked into a positive terminal for testing but I guess next thing is find a nice switched +ve and wire it in properly..then I *think* perhaps that may be the engine more or less running. which would be awesome.

    Will have to figure out what’s next…I guess making it all the same colour would be a good step.

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    in reply to: LD50’s syncro… attempt #2, now #3 – It moves ;) #21387
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    ok so I think I’ve established I’m getting ignition advance from somewhere..presumably the ecu. So I *think* my “lack of ignition advance and/or ISV” problem has just been downgraded to an “ISV/idling problem”, which is sort-of progress.

    Now it seems like it runs ok (with ign advance) when the idle switch (microswitch on the throttle) is not pressed, but as soon as it is pressed the engine dies. I suspect this is the behaviour you’d expect without a working ISV and my ISV doesn’t seem to buzz so I may yet be missing wires to the relay or have a faulty ISV or both..or something else. I’ve got 3 ISVs and 2 isv relay units so hopefully some combination of those will work.

    I think I’ve identified most of the wires coming off the isv, apart from the random black wire, though that may be ignition on/+ve (perhaps?). I’m hoping to establish that the white/white-black wires coming off the isv relay which are supposed to go to the isv, actually DO go to the isv. But that’s a multimeter feat I haven’t managed yet.

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    in reply to: LD50’s syncro… attempt #2, now #3 – It moves ;) #21377
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    Been trying to figure out the wiring and this thread seemed quite helpful. I screencapped it on my iPad (attached) just in case it disappears since so many results have patchy/missing images

    http://vwgolfmk1.org.uk/forum/index.php?page=topicview&id=modifications-and_2%2F1-8-16v-kr-on-carbs

    Still got the ISV wiring to figure out yet but have already fixed a couple of issues so am hopefully making progress..

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    in reply to: Jetta GTX 16V………the Syncro conversion #21299
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    is this any use?

    http://www.clubvw.org.au/vwvin

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    in reply to: Help needed with Webasto sunroof #21295
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    was vagcat the “online etka” thing? if so it looks like there’s another one which might be of use: https://7zap.com/en/

    I’m not sure of the source of mine but it was off a torrent site. I had to try a few different versions before I found one which worked but it’s reporting version 7 update 622 and appears to work fine. I don’t know how current that is but am happy to punch some numbers in and see what comes out if it’ll help.

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    in reply to: Help needed with Webasto sunroof #21291
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    Hi Ant, glad you got sorted with the new forums 🙂

    I don’t have experience with the roof you mention but I wondered if there might be some help in etka?

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    in reply to: NEW FORUM (HOPEFULLY) #21278
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    it’s worth noting at this point that you were actually able to post, and I got the email notification saying so..something seemingly simple which already didn’t work anymore on the old forums despite best efforts.

    * also im replying to this from my phone. where the text scales perfectly for the screen size, and it even lets me upload pictures.

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    in reply to: Mk2 Golf Country Chrome wheels The most RARE VW EVER #21224
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    wow, very tidy!!

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    in reply to: NEW FORUM (HOPEFULLY) #21221
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    The old site had got to the point that it did not work and was also hideously insecure. The email notifications weren’t going out (for reasons I couldn’t fathom despite best efforts) so new members couldn’t sign up and existing members didn’t get notifications…or only some did.

    The forum was basically already dead, it just hadn’t realised it yet.

    There was NO activity on the old forums towards the end…so in comparison we’re doing pretty well here with *some* activity.

    Anyone who fancies migrating the old forums to a new/different platform so that everyone can moan about how terrible that one is instead is welcome to do so. Please form an orderly queue.

    The old forum (read only mode) is here: http://vwsyncro.co.uk/data/forums/

    p.s. There is also a search button at the top right…all the old archives were migrated across to the new platform so all the posts should be there.

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