I finally got a sweet deal on all the seals and such I need to work on fixing the blown out gaskets for the entire upper cylinder heads and valve covers on the VW.

Had to track down an old German buddy, I used to play Carmageddeon with online in the early 2000s, to get me a few updated parts for cheap you can usually only get from a dealer at a massive mark up to hopefully keep whatever the fuck happened with the bullshit emissions system from blowing out all the new seals I have to put on... Yeah, save the environment by blowing out oil seals and making oil leak everywhere, morons.

This car has the most complicated PCV system I have ever seen in a car. In just about every other car out there, new and old, the PCV is a single little check valve on the damn valve covers that costs about $5 and can be replaced in all of 3 minutes and will fix nearly all emissions and rough idle problems... On this car?... Oh hell no, it consists of no less than 3 electronic parts, 2-3 vacuum parts, at least 10 feet worth of molded (fuggin brittle shit plastic) and rubber tubing, A suction pump, a check valve that is known for breaking (had to get one of the better ones off a newer A6 Audi, including the spider hose) and tons of time and money that is one of the sole reasons I want a car from the 70s or older again.

And it so happens one of my Filipino extended family members worked on late 90s water-cooled VWs before moving to the US and would be glad to help. So friggin' awesomesauce there, a whole lot better than me bumble-fucking around alone under the hood.

At this point I'm honestly thinking of replacing the head gaskets, just for the hell of it, so I don't have anything else to surprise me for another 100,000 miles.

Already cleaned out the EGR valves and annoying kombi-valves... Eeesh... The more I work on modern cars, the less complicated they seem, but the more I want to go back to fixing everything with two screwdrivers, an adjustable wrench, pliers, and a hammer.