Recent content by mucron

Well it's only done less than 5 months of a 12 month mot it had when I bought it in December . The chassis in front of where it broke isn't good at all .

Set off up the road on Sunday and on acceleration veered to the left sharply . I took it home checked all steering linkages couldn't see anything wrong so tried again then heard a loud clunk rear axle . first thought was diff or a half shaft then spotted the...

Its a 200 tdi .

I read some threads the other day on locating ticking noises thought at first it was exhaust manifold but as advised on here used a tube to listen with and it was coming from the bulkhead end . I've run it for 2 or 3 days and the leak is hardly noticeable now and can only just be heard...

Is the pin that was in there a vital part seems to work well enough without it.

This is what's turned out.

I wasn't driving at the time the rod punched through the release fork but wonder if there had been a problem then . Could my brother have been giving the clutch some welly when 4th would not engage . Sometime in the last 12 months something changed in that 3rd and 4th had to be carefully...

No not even with the engine off.

I've just got everything back together and before I put all the radiator pipes back tested the clutch 1st and reverse but when I took it down the road some of the other gears were a bit stiff and 4th won't go in at all . I've bled it twice slightly better and all gears go in...

1993 200 tdi 165400