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Haven’t been on the forum for a while. Busy working and other stuff. But a few thousand miles ago, me and my buddy Menno changed the TB and accessory belt in combination with a camshaft change. Tomorrow I will finally fit a PTW gearbox, as my attempts to revive an MYP gearbox failed. So today I thought I’d give her some TLC in an attempt to please and not fault tomorrow too much 😉. And I hate fettling on a dirty car 🚙 . Still going strong after 265.000 miles 👍. Wish me luck 🍀
 

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DuncanA2 said:
Haven’t been on the forum for a while. Busy working and other stuff. But a few thousand miles ago, me and my buddy Menno changed the TB and accessory belt in combination with a camshaft change. Tomorrow I will finally fit a PTW gearbox, as my attempts to revive an MYP gearbox failed. So today I thought I’d give her some TLC in an attempt to please and not fault tomorrow too much 😉. And I hate fettling on a dirty car 🚙 . Still going strong after 265.000 miles 👍. Wish me luck 🍀
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You’ll like the PTW compared with the MYP I think, having driven both - The longer lower gears are easier to live with in urban areas I find.
 
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Huge thank you to the fabulous team at Wheelbase in Hersham for another superb annual service, which this year included a new air filter, spark plugs and the fitting of a full set of NOS mud flaps. They also re-synced the MOT for the first time since the COVID break. As hoped the car passed with flying colours and without a hint of any emissions issues. Which confirms my suspicions that the previous combination of an over enthusiastic tester during a -4 degree deep-freeze was not truly representative. Happy Summer days!
 
Well, I think the TLC on Friday had a positive effect on the gearbox change from GRJ to PTW. Alle went Well despite the temperature at the shop. I changed the crankshaft seal as well, to cure the leakage that I had. Very happy with the result 👍
 

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I changed the crank seal on mine when I did this conversion for piece of mind while it was all apart - think the seal was a fiver from memory!
 
Today I've done my first fuel filter change :) Thanks for the great tutorial video to @mtl.

The new filter came with those white clips, but it didn't seem I needed them.
The previous filter supposed to be 4 years old, looks older to me tbh.
The heat shield is completely missing unfortunately.
After fitting it's sat a bit loose on one side, turned out I was too careful and didn't actually pushed it on properly, double checking has saved some headache again. It's looks all good, no sign of leakage.
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Sylvester said:
Today I've done my first fuel filter change :) Thanks for the great tutorial video to @mtl.

The new filter came with those white clips, but it didn't seem I needed them.
The previous filter supposed to be 4 years old, looks older to me tbh.
The heat shield is completely missing unfortunately.
After fitting it's sat a bit loose on one side, turned out I was too careful and didn't actually pushed it on properly, double checking has saved some headache again. It's looks all good, no sign of leakage.
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Had me head scratching for a moment, I’ve got so intrenches in TDI’s I was looking at the filter and thinking of the earlier tdi filters and it wasn’t making any sense. Then the penny dropped its a petrol

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Hi all,

Long time not been here. Hope everybody is doing well.

I had a little encounter with a Baboon in the Knowsley Safari and my car suffered a little bit of damage.
My driver side -side indicator has been ripped out. I'm unable to see if there is any wiring left. The question if I'm able to access the wiring loom from the inside or do I have to invest in a few jacks and take the wheel off. In the meantime I will be able to get a new repeater online I guess.

Thank you in advance.
 
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