Having a low moment with my UR

[Daveymaclad]

Sadly my UR has been laid up since September when the poorly tightened crankshaft woodruff key finally gave way and chewed up my engine whilst in the car park of a company I was interviewing at (and didn't get the job!)

For two months it stood outside in the rain until I could finally pull it up my 1:5 driveway.

January time came and I finally got my wifes friends boyfriend, the VW mastertech to strip the engine down, crack test and skim the spare WR head I was given by missfire (many thanks again!).

Removing the old head discovered that it had been ported and polished so the decision was taken to take my original head away to get crack tested and skimmed. Along with the head the guy took all the engine parts I'd sourced from Germany to rebuild the car.

Silly tart (wife's friend) finally shows her crazy side so the bf gives up and finishes with her.

After a month (I was on holiday for the most of it) I finally get his phone number by calling his work. It's now another month and a bit and I keep getting excuses why he's not been able to strip the head and get it tested. I'm stuck

I've got no one I can trust enough or anyone I know in the Southampton area with the skills to help me rebuild the engine (he's left bits everywhere in the already cramped garage) and I'm hesitant to go in to bullish to get my stuff back incase he holds back on some or all of the very costly parts that he's got, but at the same point I'm running low on patience.

If there's someone with the skills locally who could do the rebuild I'd call him and arrange to collect the parts asap, as the last thing I want is to completely write him off and yet have no one to be able to rebuild my car.

It's got to the point that despite the car otherwise being mechanically very good and needing then only needing tidying up (refitting interior, blow over) I'm seriously considering selling up and letting someone else enjoy the motor (I've done 4,000 miles in the four years I've owned it due to the work I've done on it).

Urghhh

So depressing seeing the car in it's state in my garage with no frickin skills to sort it

[Minty]

The obvious thing to do is to get everything back - he clearly isn't interested in doing the job & will probably be relieved to see the back of it. Once you've done that you can decide what to do next

[steveb]

Depends what budget you have, dialynx, nr swindon, keith berry near worthing etc could i'm sure put it back together. Might be worth a call ?

[geneandbolly]

RIGHT! COME ON YOU LOT!! HELP THE DAVEYMACLAD OUT HERE!!

surely someone knows of a boffin down his neck of the woods who can help
him resurrect his pride and joy?

i totally sympathise with you - not until eddy recommended James Lundy at JL Engineering did i feel happy with owning an unreliable old bastard like gene hunt!! JL has been through that car with a fine toothed comb and taught me things about this generation of wagon that i never imagined i would ever understand!

fingers out, lads!



OOPS!! wrong thread...

[Daveymaclad]

Want to save as much of my budget as possible for the respray. Given that I've already bought and paid for all the parts and had the engine dismantled I'm hoping (tell me if I'm dreaming) to have the engine rebuilt for £400 worth of labour and misc parts, but if I've got to get it trailered too far outside of Southampton then that alone will cost as much as I wanted to spend in total.

Funny you should say Dialynx, this is one of their heavily worked on cars, dialynx manifolds, lots of boxes behind the dash are dialynx and a few other bits'n'bobs in the engine bay with dialynx on it.

I've been given the number of Alan White who's apparently an old school VAG mobile mechanic but I'm having trouble getting in touch with him (was given current number by independent who uses him for all their older stuff).

[Daveymaclad]

Thanks Gene, photo's helped

[john johnson]

Stick with it , Pete berry is a top bloke down your way

[4v6]

As Minty says, get all your parts back first, its easier to find someone local who can do the reassembly work if everythings there.

[andydunn2]

Originally Posted by Daveymaclad

Want to save as much of my budget as possible for the respray. Given that I've already bought and paid for all the parts and had the engine dismantled I'm hoping (tell me if I'm dreaming) to have the engine rebuilt for £400 worth of labour and misc parts, but if I've got to get it trailered too far outside of Southampton then that alone will cost as much as I wanted to spend in total.

Funny you should say Dialynx, this is one of their heavily worked on cars, dialynx manifolds, lots of boxes behind the dash are dialynx and a few other bits'n'bobs in the engine bay with dialynx on it.

I've been given the number of Alan White who's apparently an old school VAG mobile mechanic but I'm having trouble getting in touch with him (was given current number by independent who uses him for all their older stuff).

I can't help with the engine build but I have access to a car trailer, my Tiguan has a towbar and my diesel gets paid for..........let me know where you want it picked up and dropped and I will sort it..

[Daveymaclad]

Thanks Andy that's amazingly kind of you. But I wouldn't feel comfortable if I didn't reimburse you in beer tokens or man points!!