Wowzers.... doesnt time fly!

Over a year since I bought that tired Sharan and yanked its engine out!

So... lets get up to date before we continue.

Sharan stripped, eventually disposed of after selling all the easily removed stuff on Ebay.
Basically I have a free engine and all the bits I need and even a few spares left over.

The engine has been sat on an engine stand at work for the last year.
Basically because there is nothing wrong with the engine thats in my T3 I've had no reason to crack on with the conversion.
So, a summers use for holidays and camping trips and all of a sudden its Autumn again!

Ive realised that if I dont do it now it will likely be next winter before I think about it again....



Soooo.... the last couple of evenings Ive scrubbed and stripped the engine.
Ive also bought the Dual Mass Flywheel Clutch Kit and the TDI Input Shaft that allows me to mate the engine and clutch to my existing gearbox.

I had planned to at least pull the cylinder head off and have a poke and prod inside, even if it was just to clean the head up and remove 114k miles of "EGR gunk", but ive decided I'll leave as is, clean the ports as much as I can and just run it. I figure if i'm pulling it apart I may as well do everything and AFN's are still easy enough to find for rebuild... so thats something for the future.

Next step is to put some timing marks on the DMF to allow me to time it up with the timing port on the T3. This means I'll need to loosely fit a standard flywheel, and make some marks on the block then fit the DMF and transfer the marks onto the edge of the flywheel.
After that, i'll do the timing belt and tensioners as its much easier out of the car...
Then build up as much as  I can - new water pump, oil pump and gaskets as it would be crazy not to when the engine is stripped to this level.
Then I'll have to bite the bullet and pull my AAZ engine and Gearbox out to make way for this...