mk3 steering damper

steveo3002 · Post by **steveo3002** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:27 pm

whats involved fitting a mk3 gt steering damper on a mk2?

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:45 pm

steveo3002 wrote:whats involved fitting a mk3 gt steering damper on a mk2?

2 bolts.

steveo3002 · Post by **steveo3002** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:53 pm

are the holes already there?? any extra bolts needed or anything

will the inlet have to come off

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:36 pm

I've never actually done one on a car that had an engine in

I'd guess, if it was on a lift, you could get up the back of the block to do it. Have a look at my project thread here and you should be able to see from the pics how it's done. I actually decided to swap the nearside bracket, rather than using a nut, but you can do it either way. All you really need is:

Damper
Nearside bracket
Any immediate bolts, there's only the one to the bracket you need, but grab em all anyway just in case you lose one.

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 1:17 pm

Did an offside trackrod on my mk2 the other day, and all I did was unbolt the air filter housing and push it across. It was doable from the top, and not too tricky. If you've got a good mental picture of what you need to be doing, I'd have thought it's possible to add a steering damper having done that and got the offside road wheel off.

As for parts availability (think you asked elsewhere) there's one misdescribed on ebay - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-POLO-G40-GT-ST ... dZViewItem

k4lps · Post by **k4lps** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:15 pm

all you have to do is remoce the fryingpan

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