my `76 GOLF 3dr

[Jarred]

Can't tell you what the offset is, but they'll fit a mk1. A mate of mine in town has a mk1 4 door with mk3 steelies.

yea everyone does basically. the guys at the shop donno what they're on about. i think it's 45, just from looking at the wheel, but I'm not 100% sure.

[Water Boy]

Good luck on the RWC

[Jarred]

Yay For Roadworthy-ness!!

RWC = PASS

yay. passed through RWC today, only 200 bucks later! ha! So I'm pretty happy atm..

only a few things left to do now:

1) Bung in new plugs, and get car tuned/timing done/etc. ( none of which I know how to do/have done before)

2) Figure if my car's overheating, and If so why.

3) Get my fuel gauge/temp gauge fixed. Then do 2) again.

4) Get this baby registered!!!

Hopefully, thats all, for now at least.

[william]

congrats jarred youve got 3monts to get a pinkslip now

[Jarred]

congrats jarred youve got 3monts to get a pinkslip now

not down here got 3 days to get reg'd. what is pink slip anyways?

[william]

woops different state dif laws in sydney you have three months from when your rego expires to register or else you need a road worthy certificate blue slip then a pinkslip basically a lights check then a green slip which is insurance then rego

[Peter Jones]

1) Bung in new plugs, and get car tuned/timing done/etc. ( none of which I know how to do/have done before)

2) Figure if my car's overheating, and If so why.

3) Get my fuel gauge/temp gauge fixed. Then do 2) again.

4) Get this baby registered!!!

1. Plugs are obvious. Timing is easy. Just loosen the clamp on the distributor and rotate it back and forth 'till it seems happy. Give it a bit of a rev and see how it responds. Then drive the car and see if it pings, if it doesn't rotate the distributor further clockwise 'till it does, then back it off a bit.

Tuning the carby is a black art. Very few people are good at it but lots will charge for it anyway. If it starts and idles it's probably OK. the only setting you can change on a stock carb are idle speed and mixture. Idle speed is obvious and you can play with the mixture and see what happens. Too rich and the exhaust will smell of petrol and the pipe will run black. Too lean and it won't idle well and might have problems coming off idle. Just drive it around the way it is for a bit then try a small 1/4 turn adjustment on the mixture for a bit and see how it goes. It's not going to make a massive performance difference if you get it a little bit wrong.

2.
Why do you think your car is over heating? Signs of overheating are loss of power, pinging, radiator shooting out through bonnet etc.

3. That's the three pin voltage reg in the back of the cluster that needs replacing. About $20 from an autoelec or ask around here. Could also be a fried membrane cct board.

4. Take a book to the RTA and allow plenty of time. I always seems to be down there for hours before I'm seen. The actual tranactions can take as little as 5 minutes. You can ask for slim plates or regular plates, the slim ones look a bit better IMO.


Pete

[golf3]

Well done on the pass dude!
I take it you went straight home and banged in those seat belts!
Looks like Dean has made two happy customers in one day!
I'll be back there asap with everything fixed, almost finished fixing things on my list!
WOOT WOOT for RWC's!!!

[GoLfMan]

awesome man, now get the bloody thing reg'd so we can go to Tims tommorow
thats right im giving you a day

[Jarred]

lucky for you sean, that list looked pretty damn big! I'm geussing it musta been pretty small things then??

thanks for the help pete.
I've had a bit of a chance to fiddle with the carb, and while it does everything fine atm, I'll give it another once over after I do the timing and plugs.

I think my car's over heating because the thermo fan will go on after even a 5 min journey, in todays heat. like It wasn't that hot today, and I didn't go thrashing it (okay, i did, but like twice) and then once I go home, the fan started up. Just a concern I spose.

oh and does anyone know any good auto electricans?

and josh, you are a dreamer... lol I still havn't got "proper" ownership papers yet, so I'll have to wait for them first.

[Preen59]

I think my car's over heating because the thermo fan will go on after even a 5 min journey, in todays heat. like It wasn't that hot today, and I didn't go thrashing it (okay, i did, but like twice) and then once I go home, the fan started up. Just a concern I spose.

Sounds pretty normal to me dude. My car has a diesel radiator (which has more surface area) and it does that. The reason it comes on when you turn the engine off is because the water stops cycling and the heat soaks from the engine into the water and trips the thermo fan micro switch.

It's totally OK for that to happen they all do it. Actually most cars do it.

You only need to worry if your temp gauge is going past about half way even when you are moving.

[Jarred]

ah righto. I see. Just me worrying I spose. Now i just gotta get the temp gauge fixed

[JP-009]

Sounds pretty normal to me dude. My car has a diesel radiator (which has more surface area) and it does that. The reason it comes on when you turn the engine off is because the water stops cycling and the heat soaks from the engine into the water and trips the thermo fan micro switch.

It's totally OK for that to happen they all do it. Actually most cars do it.

You only need to worry if your temp gauge is going past about half way even when you are moving.

Same with my Mk1. Most times when I get home the thermo fan comes on after I've switched off. Very normal.

Good idea to get the temp guage working properly. Cooking an engine is not my idea of fun.

Keen to see the car at the 'nats

[Peter Jones]

The thermo fan cycling on and off is normal. You're only doing short trips at low average speed and that doesn't give you enough airflow.

When you need to worry is when the fan come on and stays on. Normally once the fan kicks in it only runs for a few minutes before the temp drops back down enough for it to turn off again.

Sounds like it's working normally, when you hit the highways at 100Km/h you'll find it never kicks in at all. In the 'burbs it'll be cutting in and out all the time.

You shouldn't need a sparky to fix that dash, just the reg or another working cluster will probably be cheaper. Do a couple of searches, those regs have been a topic on here before. I just used my last spare one to fix the same problem in one of my Golfs. They're dead easy to change over.

Pete

[Preen59]

Just remembered, i've got 3 (count them, 3!) complete dashes at the workshop. Let me know if it's your temp gauge and not your reg and i'll hook you up. I think one of them has a tacho in it too, if you need/want one.

Anyway if you need some stuff give me a hollar and i'll get the parts you want checked out.