- Oct 30, 1999
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I sort of lost interest in my little 1982 VW Rabbit after a simple CV axles replacement went horribly wrong.
The replacement CV wobbled in the hub, and upon closer inspection I found that the bearing was worn. I pressed in a new bearing but in the interim, found out that one of my Borbet center caps was cracked.
Once I replaced the hub and CV axle, I found that the other CV had a torn boot from the car being jacked so high up in the air, and I could no longer find the receipt for the axle I had already bought, and therefore could not get my core charge refunded. A tough blow to my already bruised ego.
While I was under the car, I figured I would replace the shifter bushing, and although I never put the shifter back together again, I did get as far as putting the shifter bushing back in place. I left the shifter rod hang as the wood shift knob with the engraved Wolfsburg logo lay lifeless in the cold dark cockpit.
Tonight, after dinner and two Shiner Bocks, I got some wild "hare" up my ass to get out to the garage and tighten things down, forget about the torn CV boot and put the shifter back together again and make this beast operational.
After I was done, with grease in hair and dirt in face, I jumped in the car and turned the key. The car fired up immediately, despite having sat for nearly three months. The rumble of the engine pouring throught the Techtonics 2" exhaust was very familiar and the uneven stagger of the high lift cam was immediately interupted by a quick jerk of the accelerator cable opening up the modified Audi throttle body as it sucked air through the K&N air filter.
Ahh! It's like music to my ears.
No, it doesn't have the turbo on it that I've been meaning to install for a year now.
Forget the center caps.
Forget the torn CV boot.
Me and baby are going for a ride tomorrow.
The replacement CV wobbled in the hub, and upon closer inspection I found that the bearing was worn. I pressed in a new bearing but in the interim, found out that one of my Borbet center caps was cracked.
Once I replaced the hub and CV axle, I found that the other CV had a torn boot from the car being jacked so high up in the air, and I could no longer find the receipt for the axle I had already bought, and therefore could not get my core charge refunded. A tough blow to my already bruised ego.
While I was under the car, I figured I would replace the shifter bushing, and although I never put the shifter back together again, I did get as far as putting the shifter bushing back in place. I left the shifter rod hang as the wood shift knob with the engraved Wolfsburg logo lay lifeless in the cold dark cockpit.
Tonight, after dinner and two Shiner Bocks, I got some wild "hare" up my ass to get out to the garage and tighten things down, forget about the torn CV boot and put the shifter back together again and make this beast operational.
After I was done, with grease in hair and dirt in face, I jumped in the car and turned the key. The car fired up immediately, despite having sat for nearly three months. The rumble of the engine pouring throught the Techtonics 2" exhaust was very familiar and the uneven stagger of the high lift cam was immediately interupted by a quick jerk of the accelerator cable opening up the modified Audi throttle body as it sucked air through the K&N air filter.
Ahh! It's like music to my ears.
No, it doesn't have the turbo on it that I've been meaning to install for a year now.
Forget the center caps.
Forget the torn CV boot.
Me and baby are going for a ride tomorrow.
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