Hi All,
I just thought I would share some pics of my dying Golf. I call it "death by over-leaning".
In it's final 40k kms it was chewing up a good 1ltr of oil a week. Fuel consumption went from 6.5ltr per 100km to 11ltr per 100km.
The engine finally gave up at 143k. You can read the full story in the newbies corner: 118TSI owner
Warning lights galore!
Diverter valve covered in oil.
Pressure build up in the case caused oil cap to pop off! Oil temps had reached 118 degrees on the freeway while sitting on 110km/h!
Sparkies - 1,2 and 3 where running lean and looked just like sparky from cyl.3 (bottom) and cyl.4 sparky is covered in oil.
A look at the top of piston.4 through the sparkplug hole
When I disconnected the intercooler, a good 100ml of oil dripped out. (yellow box)
Supercharger intake pipe also covered in oil. VW dealer had told me the smell of burning oil was caused by a bad supercharger that was leaking oil... I don't think so
The plenum with a nice pool of oil
Now these following 2 are my favourites.. Downpipe and LAMBDA sensor covered in a white residue. This is one extremely lean running engine!
On the left is the turbo from the dead engine with 143k on it, also covered in white residue. The turbo on the right is one with 6k on the clock from my replacement engine.
This last one is the gearbox, where the clutch and flywheel sits. You can see on the top right it has some deep gashes. This is where either the clutch or flywheel was hitting.
Anyways, I thought some of you might have found these interesting. I wonder how many out there have run these engines to the ground. I personally did a total of 70k kms on this engine until it died at 143k.
Diego
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