turbo transplant in 2 minutes

well after a few days of troubleshooting (with the help of c3cars and mostly Nate from Edition719) and months of procastination I finally got around to fixing the problem of smoke on the decel. I first tried rebuilding the K03s, mainly for the experience, but that didn't fix the problem. Following Nate's lead I checked the case vent which was good. That led me back to a bad turbo. As much as I wanted to go bt I saved the cash and found a brand new K04 of fleebay for 400 bones. Guess you could say that was my christmas present to myself since I bought it on christmas, haha. After clearing the garage of the jeep project I commenced to swapping the turbo yesterday around noon. Total time was about 6hrs including 2 meals and a trip to the store. I'm impressed, considering last time it took me a couple days I think (putting it back in sucks monkey balls unless you have a game plan like I did this time). Well, being as words mean nothing here...below is the approximate 4hrs of actual work in less than 2 minutes :o

Category: Installs/How Tos

Tags: Turbo, Install, Jetta