DieselMonte

1.6 tdi is either a CAYA/CAYB/CAYC code for a 75/90/105 model respectively. Egr needs coding out if you're removing it completely, or a simulator as Pip has said. If the egrs still working you can put a restrictor plate on the pipe leading to the intake manifold, it'll keep a lot of the egr gunk out of the intake system and it wont throw the car into limp mode.

Mine does the same still I wouldnt worry too much about it. I've since changed the gear oil on mine and I reckon it was low, I got more in it than came out of it anyway. If you're changing the gear oil don't expect to get absolutely every drop out though there will always be some of the old oil in it somewhere. Linkages made the biggest difference on my car, gear oil made some difference on its own too. Pretty sure VW gearboxes are a "lifetime fill" so they dont have a specified interval. Won't do any harm changing it though and its peace of mind. Just my 2cents.

Out today and I got the one side nearly done. Absolutely horrible job by far and away one of if not the worst job I've ever done on this car. Left this side here for today, not even going to touch the other side just get this side put back together. When the mk2 needs shoes putting on I'll get a disc axle for it. Honestly it cant be any harder to just swap the whole axle than it is to do these brakes. Painted the drums with some leftover paint to freshen them up too. I really hope atleast the handbrake will work again when these are done.

Wasnt doing anything this morning so went and did a bit of "Maintenence" on this. Really I just wanted to take another look at the egr piping and what not and give it another clean. Fairly scummy but seems like the restrictor plates doing its job. Took a look at the asv and said I may as well take it off for a clean too.Thats the top of it where it meets the intake manifold. Heres the bottom side thats joined to an intercooler hose. I thought it would be worse but the only real dirt was that buildup you can see in the photo. Took a bit of scrubbing to get it clean. I used this pink stuff paste with a scouring sponge and it came off fairly easily. Cleaned up the egr bits again before putting them back on. Dont need to be perfect just cleaner than what they were. A lot of the dirt I was finding was mostly oil i'm guessing from the breather, wasnt too hard to clean. Got a shot up the intake manifold and it doesnt look too bad, I was expecting worse. Happy I've cleaned up the asv even though it shouldn't make any difference to its running. Think I've mentioned before about fitting a catch can and I think its time I actually pull my finger out and do it, it won't harm anything.

I blew out the driveshaft and drivers wheel bearing on my sdi not long after I got it, and put used ones on. Its lasted for a long time but I think it'll need replaced before It goes back on the road proper. If a used parts in good enough shape then theres no reason not to buy it. Atleast it keeps the car on the road for a bit more and allows you to save up for if it goes again.

My comfort had the one on the passengers side and nothing not even a blank under the drivers, weird.

You absolutely can swap them I took the underseat storage from my mk1s seat and put it into my mk2 a while back.

Not my proudest moment but felt I should share. Lately I've noticed a bit of a clunk from the front which I took to be either something with the arb, or a driveshaft going bad. Someone suggested I check the engine mounts and I did. Lo and behold the drivers side mount (which I've only replaced a few months ago) had a lot of play in it, more than the mount in the mk1 even. I didnt want to be driving with it over christmas and I figured I wouldnt be able to get a mount for it again because of christmas. So I took it upon myself to bodge the original mount and put it in. I put the original mount in a vice and squeezed it in to make room on the top of the bushing. Then I got the tigerseal out and proceeded to shove as much of it as I could into the gap I made. Left it to set for almost a week like this. And put it in. Not the prettiest job but it has solved the clunking.Made a noticeable difference when you put your foot down too, it feels like the engines not moving about as much compared to the other mount if that makes any sense. I'll try warrantying the other mount and see what they say. I don't expect this to hold up for long but it just needs to last long enough for me to get another mount in. For the sake of a few euros worth of tiger seal I can't really complain . I wonder if VW made a stiffer version of this mount, I believe the diesel mounts stiffer than the petrol ones but I wonder if there exists one stiffer than that.

Straight swap as Annoying Pentium has said. Do you have any pics of the seats out of curiosity?

Or breakers either, and cars being broken for spares.

Not too sure about the slam panel, most of the places you could mount to are plastic and I don't know if it would be as good of a job. Crash bar was the only place secure enough to put them I found. Its not as big of a job, honestly I used some big nuts put together to raise the spots up enough. Not the most elagant way but it worked and they havent moved at all.

Stealthy If you mounting it where I've mounted mine beware I found the crash bar very hard to drill through, and I had to make a big spacer to get them to sit high enough to be visible.

I've a pair of led spots on mine. On my car the wire I tapped into to switch the relay with the high beams was a white wire on the headlight loom, from the passengers side headlight. Don't look like much but they put out a decent amount of light even behind the grille. Dirt cheap too, I got my two for around a tenner but the same seller sells 10 of them for ~£26.

I've wired spots to come on with the high beam, didnt need to run wires into the cabin then. But a good bet would be to run your wires through the same grommet the bonnet cable goes through, should be able to see it running down the passengers side of the car. IIRC it goes under the scuttle panel for the wipers and then in past the firewall so you might want/ need to take off the scuttle to make it easier to run them through.

Never seen a car take so much abuse and keep going. Hit hard enough to break the starter in two, put a new starter on it and it fires up after being sat for over a year like it was nothing. The matrix that replaced the mk1 couldn't hold a candle to it there.

At a good speed too, that fields very hilly and because it doesnt have much power I got to gunning it going downhill and putting it into a slide to carry as much speed as I could when I looped around to go back up it. It was a while ago but I think I was going about 50mph when I hit the drinker. More or less I was in a slide, hit the drinker head on, sent it flying and spun out. Not really, that field hadnt been used in a long time and the drinker was covered over by grass and weeds. I had a loop made for myself and I guess I kept slowly working my way inwards over time. You can sorta see the dirt track I'd carved out, was particularly thick with weeds near the middle of the field conveniently hiding this wacking big drinker under it.

Big concrete cattle drinker

Weird, I always thought the reason you had to change the axle for discs was because the drum axle didnt have the mounts for a caliper carrier. So thats why everyone who swapped for discs just swapped the whole axle out. If those mounts are useable to mount carriers to I'd probably get brakes, lines etc to go onto it and put it into my mk2.

No the one with the rarb is my mk2. The mk1 axle is the first one. Its not as easy to see with all the mud but theres two "ears" coming from the axle that arent on the axle under the mk2.

And unless you set them really low they'll ride just fine.

Its got a vRS block, a 1.9 litre plant, its got vRS wheels, vRS supensions, "vRS" seats. Its a model made before DPFs so it'll run good on veg oil...

Well you're half right in that its the front of a vRS . Its originally a 1.9sdi and its only got a vRS front on it to replace the front clip after I wrecked it a while back. My monte had the oem "sport" suspension standard and it was slightly lower than a fabia on standard suspension, could only be 10-15mm lower and the same applies with for example a mk1 1.9 tdi fabia and a mk1 vRS. You're right that the shocks and springs are different but it could be a case of the sport shocks being shorter as the springs are slightly shorter too, there are much better options outside of oem "sport" suspension and probably cost the same if not less. The suspension on mine is a set of coilovers that came off a vRS as the person who was selling them was upgrading to some fancier coilovers. They're just FK performance coilovers on the front and fabia vRS rear shocks with some lowering springs in the back another member off here gave me ages ago. I got the coilovers, top mounts and drop links (albeit normal ones not shorter ones) for either 50 or 70 euro. Obviously not the freshest set but for my uses they're more than enough. The person I bought them off told me they're set 2 inches lower than a standard vRS is, I don't think its that much of a drop on mine and I havent adjusted them. Can honestly say it rides really well on the coilovers, was impressed so much by them that when the shocks on my monte gave out I went and got coilovers for it too (New this time). On that car I have them set to a modest 25mm drop from its "sport" suspension. Rides great even on our very rough backroads. Also I felt it was simplest to get coilovers knowing that the shock and the spring would be designed to work together properly instead of worrying about not getting the right shock to go with the right spring etc. Also I recorded this video of a shock I took off my mk1 and a shock I took off my monte. I like to think of it as a good example of an ok shock and a shock thats worn out.

Few bits done on the mk1 today, changed the coolant temp sensor out, 5 minute job max and hopefully should make the temp read properly for once. I wonder if I could tap into the wiring for this sensor to go to the water temp gauge I got for it? Then I moved on to tackling the rear brakes, got so far and stopped because I noticed something. To me this looks like a disc axle has found its way under it. Especially compared to the mk2 Have made a thread in the mk1 forum so hopefully someone can 100% for sure tell me whether or not it is a disc axle. I've definately thought about putting a disc axle in the mk2 so what might happen is that I take the axle off the mk1, strip it down and freshen it up, get rear discs and swap it into the mk2. Then the mk2s axle can find its way into the mk1, ideally. I'll have this car 5 years come february and I've only noticed this tonight, I hope I'm right and this is a disc axle and I'm not getting excited over nothing.

Good evening all, I'm doing some more work on the rear brakes on my mk1 and I noticed that the axle it has seems to have the mountings for some calipers. I stuck my head under my mk2 and noticed it does not have the same mountings on it. I apologise for the poor pictures as my phones battery is pretty low but It should be relatively clear what I mean. Mk1 Axle: Mk2 axle: Notice the lack of mounts? I know my mk1 should be drums and i'm pretty sure it should have the same axle as a mk2 where there are no mounts for discs. Could well be a very stupid question I know but I'm very curious as to why it seems to have a disc axle under it.

For reference this was low enough to need shorter drop links. Not sure of how much of a drop it is because I didnt measure it before and after. Weirdly my mk2 is sitting about as low and Its perfectly fine with standard drop links.