Just changed the timing belt, water pump, and crankshaft seal on my 1.8t (2001 Beetle, AWV). I’m trying to get the part of the engine mount that bolts to the engine to where its supposed to go, but there just doesn’t seem to be enough room between the belt tensioners, frame rail, and that damn a/c line. Is there a trick to this? I seem to remember kinda rotating it around the a/c line when I got it out.
So about a year and a half ago, I bought a 2001 Beetle GLX from a used car lot where the guy basically resells auction cars, including this one. When I got it, the only noticeable thing wrong was that the hood wouldn’t latch completely. But when I test drove it, I took it for a half hour run on the highway and it went to 80 and held it like it was born to go at least that fast. I have no maintenance records on the car, so I’ve been plugging away at it and at one point I noticed that the radiator wasn’t sitting straight and was kinda wedged into the mount. I had no idea how it was supposed to go together, but I knew that wasn’t it and was planning on addressing it this summer. About a month ago, I hit a parking curb well enough to undo how it was wedged in, limped home, and got to work on it.
The whole radiator/condenser/fan assembly sandwich was completely out of the mount, and between how it had been wedged in and the parking curb, both the radiator and condenser were somewhat warped, so I got new ones. That was complicated and took some time because the first radiator I got had a leak. Once I got a solid radiator though, I couldn’t get the system to burp and coolant was barely moving. I tried pre-filling the radiator from where the upper hose joins tee-1, massaging hoses, nothing.
I had wanted to change the water pump and timing belt anyway, since I didn’t know their age, so I got into the timing belt area and there was a slight coolant leak at the water pump because the o-ring had compressed flat. There’s also a front crankshaft seal leak that I’ll be dealing with. I know there’s a slight leak at the coolant flange coming from the temperature sensor, and I’m replacing both.
Finally, and this is where we get to the picture, I was following the heater core hoses because I want to flush the main return line while the water pump is out and I’m changing the thermostat, and I noticed that the wastegate on the turbo looks really corroded, but it’s just the wastegate itself. Is there a reason it would look like this and does it have to do with the coolant leak?
I have a 2001 Beetle GLX, and when I got it the front end was not put together correctly. A few weeks ago, I hit a parking curb and finished it off, and have been working on getting it back together. Which I did, but now I have this small leak in the new radiator I bought. It’s right there at the bottom of where the aluminum joins the plastic. I already had to disassemble the whole thing because of a problem with the new condenser I got. Is this radiator toast, or is there a way this can be fixed?