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96Geoman wrote: Autozone will loan you the slide hammer with adapter for free provided you give them a refundable deposit. I used a slide hammer the first time. The second time I removed dust cap and nut then put wheel back on with 2 lugnuts finger tight. Then I pulled off the whole assembly.

_________________ Red '98 Metro 5sp 16v SOHC Silver '06 Aerio SX 5sp 16v DOHC

Hybrid34 wrote: Yeah hopefully will not try to replace the block, can you weld the missing pieces back together? (I heard these blocks are aluminum not cast iron) thus is able to? GTI engine block in Australia are hard to come by - Ash You can use the block from any of the 1298cc 1.3 engines - even the lowly SOHC out of a Cino or Barina - they're all the same - it's the head & the innards (crank, rods & pistons) that...

You could have a bad thermostat and/or an air bubble in the system. Jack up the front of the car. Leave the radiator cap off while the engine warms up to operating temperature and let the system burp out any air. Before doing this you might want to replace the thermostat since they are not very expensive.

thank you all ! i will do alll the thing you suggested and also check if the ground is connected and will let you know how it goes later

On second thought, I've changed my mind about the Engine Restore. After doing some research, it looks like putting addatives of any kind in your oil is a bad idea. I'll still keep my fingers crossed that the little guy will keep running for the next month or so while I save a few bucks to get the job done. Thank you again for the help. By the way, I checked out your site, and am a fan. I registered under the same user name there as...

http://www.store.partsdinosaur.com/product2429.html $13.95 each here.

hm, interesting ragtop. I just replaced the head gasket last month, so I didn't think that could be the problem. Was the oil leak from an overheat or something that caused the head to crush the gasket?

Should swap directly without any problems. I don't know if you can actually detach the lower part of the door panels(maybe you can) but then again I have a vert and have not really looked closely at one with the door-mounted belts. But either way you'll need to find another way to attach the seat belt assembly to the car frame...

be sure that you use the intake sensor set and distributor from your original engine. there are compatibility issues, especially among distributors from engines of differing years of manufacture.