the rubber gasket/flange that sits between the inlet manifold and carb looks a bit tired/split on my sisters golf. any tips on removing the carb and changing this, i had a weber on my old mk1 and never dismantled a pierburg system. its a mk2 1.6 btw cheers
10mm socket to undo 3 long M6 bolts visible on top surface of carb when airbox has been removed. Disconnect any coolant/electrical/vacuum connections that you need to in order to get enough access to the flange fixing bolts, and the little alloy bendy-over bits that stop them coming undone. Obviously you'll want to keep this to a minimum. Maybe get an assistant to just lift the carb up an inch or so while you get in there and do the swap? Edit: Actually, probably a good idea to take it further off than this, so you can give the mating faces on carb and manifold a good clean-up.
cheers for that, once ive removed the 3 long bolts to remove the carb, how many bolts is it to release the rubber flange from the inlet?
doesn't sound too bad to do then, gunna change all the vac hoses as well while im at it. done the ones on the front.
all went to plan, apart from the rocker gasket which has decided to leak oil out at the back, thought id change it and now its worse!!
did you go rubber? have a look for g60 rubber rocker cover gasket make sure you also get new rubber mounting studs apparently work better than cork.
