What did you do to your mk7 today?

[El_bigote_AJ]

I've driven a lot of manuals and never had any trouble taking off smoothly until this GTI. I even stalled it yesterday, on a steep hill at a traffic light.

The single mass flywheel needs more RPMs (than the stock flywheel does) to get going from a dead stop, but modulating the throttle is a PITA. It's either bog or over-rev, with a razor-thin margin of pedal effort between the two.

I feel this.

 

[GTIfan99]

In the 80's, I let my roommate take my GTI to the store. Car ended up in PA with a burned out clutch (we lived in D.C).

Never again.

 

[Dog Dad Wagon]

In the 80's, I let my roommate take my GTI to the store. Car ended up in PA with a burned out clutch (we lived in D.C).

Never again.

Wow. Good on you for being a nice guy - bad on him for being a scum bag. Sorry that happened lol. I'd imagine you didn't get any money out of him?

 

[Jshinz24]

In the 80's, I let my roommate take my GTI to the store. Car ended up in PA with a burned out clutch (we lived in D.C).

Never again.

This sounds like a very interesting story...

 

[GTIfan99]

Wow. Good on you for being a nice guy - bad on him for being a scum bag. Sorry that happened lol. I'd imagine you didn't get any money out of him?

No, but he did help me tow it back to DC.

 

[daujin_mk7]

For the eurocode front brace, how did you all torque the jamnuts to 15ft lb? What am I missing?

 

[Subliminal]

torque wrench

 

[ckuhns]

Used it to drive my newborn son home from th hospital! He didn’t seem to mind the stiffer ride of the R spring in the wagon, stoked! Hoping to have time to install my front Stoptech kit in the coming weeks..

 

[daujin_mk7]

torque wrench

I feel so dumb for asking. But how? How do you torque a jam nut using a 15/16 or 21mm wrench?

 

[mk7_bk]

I feel so dumb for asking. But how? How do you torque a jam nut using a 15/16 or 21mm wrench?

Follow this?
https://ecodetuning.com/guides/MQB/StrutBarFront.pdf

looks like hold nut with wrench and apply torque wrench to bolt

 

[GTI Jake]

Used it to drive my newborn son home from th hospital! He didn’t seem to mind the stiffer ride of the R spring in the wagon, stoked! Hoping to have time to install my front Stoptech kit in the coming weeks..View attachment 196558

Congrats!

Won’t be long till he’s ready to help, it goes fast!

 

[swcrow]

30k VWCare service. Whoopdeedo

That and I ran all the lines for an upcoming subwoofer install

 

[El_bigote_AJ]

I feel so dumb for asking. But how? How do you torque a jam nut using a 15/16 or 21mm wrench?

Not dumb... It’s more dumb that the directions state that when they know it’s not a common occurrence for a regular DIYer to be in situations where they are tq’ing to spec an open end wrench, lol.

I’m sure most end users just got it “that’s good” tight.

If you want to get a TQ wrench on there, they have adapter type tools that hook on to a wrench and then have your hole for the. 3/8 or 1/4 drive, but I would question how that affects the rating due to altered leverage.

do you have any crows foot sockets? You can use that on your wrench, but also...it’s a jam nut on that strut bar, just tighten it up and it will be fine. Keep in mind 15ftlb is not much, so you don’t need to stress about trying to get it super tight.

 

[Subliminal]

I feel so dumb for asking. But how? How do you torque a jam nut using a 15/16 or 21mm wrench?

im a little confused, do you have a torque wrench or no? if not, then like AJ said you can probably get away with just tightening it like normal...15 isn't much so don't go crazy on it, just make sure it's snug. then check it after driving around a bit to make sure it's not loosening up

 

[GTI Jake]

Not dumb... It’s more dumb that the directions state that when they know it’s not a common occurrence for a regular DIYer to be in situations where they are tq’ing to spec an open end wrench, lol.

I’m sure most end users just got it “that’s good” tight.

If you want to get a TQ wrench on there, they have adapter type tools that hook on to a wrench and then have your hole for the. 3/8 or 1/4 drive, but I would question how that affects the rating due to altered leverage.

do you have any crows foot sockets? You can use that on your wrench, but also...it’s a jam nut on that strut bar, just tighten it up and it will be fine. Keep in mind 15ftlb is not much, so you don’t need to stress about trying to get it super tight.

When using a torque adapter or crows foot you clock it 90* to the torque wrench, which zeros out the leverage so there’s no calculation required.