1.8t bam tip touching servo

Hi,

I have fitted a bam into my golf and have just put on the servo only to realise it is touching the turbo intake pipe. At first I thought this was down to the autocavan brake linkage and 16v servo however I swapped it out for a standard mk1 linkage and servo I had lying around and it's still touching. The tip is quite a compact unit and I see no way of pulling it out the way. The only options I can think of are to modify the autocavan linkage to shift te servo 20mm to the near side or to switch to a bias pedal box however I am not keen to do this and lose the servo.

Engine else encountered this issue ? I presume it's down to the different pipe work on the bam with k04 turbo.

Cheers

Pippo

This probably wont help but i thought i would reply!

Mine is an AGU so im not sure the tip exits the same but having a quick scan on images sjows it looks similar.  

Is it the master cylinder its touching or the reservoir?

 Mine was in hard contact with my reservoir so removed the reservoir and flipped it 180 degrees as its offset (think its a 16v one), in effect running it back to front on the MC.

Does this help?
Sorry if not! 

Thanks for the reply adz, it's defo the left side of the servo that's tight up against the tip. I haven't put the mc on yet so may well still have to do as you did. I will try and get a pic up. 

I have been viewing a couple of builds with the servo on the driver side and it's tempting me. Especially with the hydro clutch master fitted also. 

Pippo

cant you rotate the tip on the turbo so it doesnt touch the servo

I will check later tonight d-v-d cheers. 

It didn't jump out at me as an obvious solution at the time but maybe I was having an off day ;-)

If that works I may have to lengthen some of the other pipes that connect to the tip but that's no biggy 

Just had a re-read. 

I had to trim a bit off the bit of the TIP that attaches to the turbo to move it in a bit and rotate mine to clear the 9 inch servo, then it came into contact with the reservoir and had to rotate the reservoir!  All my attaching pipes are trimmed and rerouted from stock to reduce unnecessary slack and allow them to fit properly!

Yours may be a wider TIP too for the k04.   

mines a ko3s but i still ran into similar problems, i rotatated and trimed my tip, i also found it was resting to hard on the reservoir so changed it for shallow version of a renault clio

if your servo is a 88on 16v or 90spec 8v its the revised deeper unit, the pre-90 8v and pre-88 16v use a thinner servo which is still 9" if it helps? i dont have any decent side by side pics so cant say howe much difference it makes in reality. another option would be a 7" 1.6 mk2 servo, your 22mm mc would still fit just obv bit less servo assistance

Hmm not sure what particular 9" servo I have but its fairly deep. about 90mm from back of servo mating face to the front of server m/c mounting face.

Either way, I don't think depth will solve the problem as the whole side of the servo is up against the tip. I cant shorten the tip at the turbo end either as the steel hater matrix pipes are right behind it.

I have decided to modify the autocavan servo bracket. It angles in towards the engine (I presume to miss all the K-Jet stuff on a standard mk1, which I don't haver) so I plan to straighten it up and shift it towards the near side about 15-20mm.  I will probably require the servo swing arm on the link bar shifted also. Looking at getting a local blacksmith to do it as I am a novice welder and its a safety item.

the famous heater pipe scenario, i forgot about those, what i done was shorten the tip and care fully bent the heater pipes so they routed differently