Hi guys, you can probably realise I'm a new member here, so firstly I'll introduce myself.... I'm eddy, 20 years old from
bradford, Yorkshire.
Got my b7 around 7 months ago, and have only just recently decided I'll start to mod it and have a play around. After a long drive down to Buckinghamshire, I got her home
Nothing really intetesting happened until around 8 weeks ago. I was driving as normal, but the car into gear and it jolted, as if it had just stalled, it hadn't. Instantly got the 'oil pressure' warning on my dash, so I straight away panicked! Got the car into work to check it over, keeping my fingers crossed for a cheap fix, I found this....
the oil pump chain and snapped, and smashed a hole in it's casing on it's attempt of escaping... So much for that cheap fix! Started to strip the car down to see what other damage had been caused
luckily nothing! So it was just a case of taking off the old oil pump kit, and replacing it with a new one. Once getting the chain off, the next big problem was getting the gear/cog off the shaft, very difficult! Tried heating it up and hitting it with a hammer but just no movement!
eventually I thought about grinding it down to make it thin enough to smash into pieces, and hey presto...
finally!!! So I put on the new kit, chain, cogs, and new oil pump. Thought I may as well replace the timing belt whilst it's off, would be daft not to!
Also, the front bumper had been giving quite a poor respray before I bought it, completely ruining the look of the front of the car, so as I'm a painter I decided to give it a proper going over whilst it was off the car
soshe was all fixed, looking good and back home. Bought some plastidip shortly after and decided to spray the front grill, doesn't look bad I don't think!
but just left work today and saw it starting to peal off think I fit it back on, drove it and washed it way before it was properly dried
also just ordered some JOM coilovers, was told they're decent enough coils just for the visual side of things just waiting them coming in from Germany!
but that's all from me for now
bradford, Yorkshire.
Got my b7 around 7 months ago, and have only just recently decided I'll start to mod it and have a play around. After a long drive down to Buckinghamshire, I got her home
Nothing really intetesting happened until around 8 weeks ago. I was driving as normal, but the car into gear and it jolted, as if it had just stalled, it hadn't. Instantly got the 'oil pressure' warning on my dash, so I straight away panicked! Got the car into work to check it over, keeping my fingers crossed for a cheap fix, I found this....
the oil pump chain and snapped, and smashed a hole in it's casing on it's attempt of escaping... So much for that cheap fix! Started to strip the car down to see what other damage had been caused
luckily nothing! So it was just a case of taking off the old oil pump kit, and replacing it with a new one. Once getting the chain off, the next big problem was getting the gear/cog off the shaft, very difficult! Tried heating it up and hitting it with a hammer but just no movement!
eventually I thought about grinding it down to make it thin enough to smash into pieces, and hey presto...
finally!!! So I put on the new kit, chain, cogs, and new oil pump. Thought I may as well replace the timing belt whilst it's off, would be daft not to!
Also, the front bumper had been giving quite a poor respray before I bought it, completely ruining the look of the front of the car, so as I'm a painter I decided to give it a proper going over whilst it was off the car
soshe was all fixed, looking good and back home. Bought some plastidip shortly after and decided to spray the front grill, doesn't look bad I don't think!
but just left work today and saw it starting to peal off think I fit it back on, drove it and washed it way before it was properly dried
also just ordered some JOM coilovers, was told they're decent enough coils just for the visual side of things just waiting them coming in from Germany!
but that's all from me for now