Josh's MK2 Golf GTI

[martinijosh]

Re: Josh's MK2 Golf GTI

Massive fuel leak, stuck far away from home and no money to pay the mechanic.

My life rocks.

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[martinijosh]

Re: Josh's MK2 Golf GTI



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[martinijosh]

Fuel has some how managed to get in to the throttle body, in to the oil and in to the air box. Sooo... its over fueled and pumped it into the cylinder, and then pushed it back out of one of the intake valves? I don't know how else it would get that far up the intake.

At best it will be oil change, drain out throttle body, manually turn over the motor with no plugs to try to clear out the fuel... no time to do it today of course, and no time tomorrow.

#$@!

[ryana89]

Sounds like one of the injectors is either very leaky/stuck open or the 5th injector (cold start) has gone nuts.
Are you saying the entire intake manifold is full of fuel?

[martinijosh]

Sounds like one of the injectors is either very leaky/stuck open or the 5th injector (cold start) has gone nuts.
Are you saying the entire intake manifold is full or fuel?

Enough fuel that you can see it through the throttle body. I haven't seen it since I dropped it off, that's just what he's telling me.

When the motor is cold it tends to bog a stutter a little bit at low RPM but is fine at speed, even at WOT so yeah one of the injectors is probably being a penis.

edit: yes, fuel filling up the intake manifold. They drained it and tried again, pumped fuel straight back in to the throttle body, high enough that its squirting through the vacuum line down in to the airbox... Any ideas? I've said to stop working on it for now as they don't know much about VW's which they've openly said (that's fine).

Don't have the money for them to spend hours and hours diagnosing it, so going to have to tow it home until I can figure out what the problem is...

[martinijosh]

Feels good to have her home... now I just have to figure out whats causing the problem.

[martinijosh]

New loom to replace the custom rodent special and new ecu to replace the current dodgy one.

Too bad its raining today -_-

[martinijosh]

Motor is apparently leaking oil in to the top of one of the cylinders, and some of the pistons are scorched.

My first VW has also been my worst car ownership experience, and I've owned a 360,000km triton.


Left with the decision to
- Rebuild the motor, factoring in boosted upgrade paths
- Source replacement motor, possibly whole donor car to get subframe etc.
- part it out and put the funds towards getting my xr6 turbo to 500rwhp (3k will get me the rest of the way there)

Decisions... someone help me out lol

[tassie devil]

not sure what engine you have there,if you havnt got a 2.0l 16v maybe try and source one for it

[martinijosh]

The car is now in the hands of my local VW gurus... fingers crossed.

[ryana89]

Decisions... someone help me out lol

Late reply, but,

Piss the tired 1.8 bottom end (block) off and replace it with a 2.0L 8v bottom end.
Common conversion.

and I've owned a 360,000km triton.

Was the Triton an ex track car?

Hope it all gets sorted.

[martinijosh]

Was the Triton an ex track car?

Hope it all gets sorted.

Does the golf going to 1 track day in its 22 year life qualify it as a "track car"?

Anyway, car is in good hands, should be sorted soon.

[martinijosh]

The boys have already managed to get it running.

[martinijosh]

And as I had hoped, oil change and new plugs has it sorted. Ecu was indeed the issue.

[ryana89]

Does the golf going to 1 track day in its 22 year life qualify it as a "track car"?

Running on a bad ECU.

And as I had hoped, oil change and new plugs has it sorted. Ecu was indeed the issue.

Great to hear, that'll be that cars 3rd ECU!?!
Weird things.