Wreck to Race.

[Peter Jones]

Engine bay. Remember I started off just replacing brake pads and I got to this stage!





I pulled the sump off to replace the Gasket, the old one was held on with kypotonite I think!

Here's an under shot you don't often see.



Clean and shiny sump ready to go back on.



Gradually going back together



Water pump back in.



Anotheer shot.


Week nights I've been cleaning up the wheels - no more gutter rash



I've got to weld the shock towers before I can put the suspension back in. It was too hot to weld today.

Pete

[GoLfMan]

great work Pete

[Peter Jones]

hahah you love your red paint don't you pete! what cam did you put in? oh wait, you just replaced the cam seal.. oh. gfot a bit ahead of myself!

Actually I just like painting parts when I put them back in. I'm a pretty left brained person and the colour doesn't matter much to me.

The suspension on the red golf ended up two shades of blue, yellow and red.

Jodie put her foot down and said it's got to be all red or all black.

I just paint stuff to make it easier to clean and keep it from rusting.

(Black would be pretty boring though, I'm not completely left brained!)

Pete

[Golf Loon]

The odd injector is from an early Mk1 GTI. All the others are from the later Mk2 kjet 1.8s. I`d use the later kind in that motor.

You have had a busy weekend, good work.

[Peter Jones]

The new rocker cover gasket is rubber and is one piece, a much better design than the cork with rubber bits original style, the kit came with new shoulder less studs.

The new sump gasket is also rubber, it should seal up a lot better that the kryptonite one.

New Cam belt and tensioner fitted up.

New spark pugs too, Bosch platinum thingies with 4 electrodes.

The engine timing was all over the shop, The fly wheel's not on right so the mark doesn't correspond to TDC on No1. Can't be stuffed dropping the motor to fix that.

The marks on the pulleys weren't aligned right either everything was 90 degrees off and the leads were rotated to make it run.

There's no particular reason for it that I could see so I've set it all back to the factory marks the way it should be. I'll have to check the timing when it's all back together.

Pete

[Preen59]

Looking good pete! Good to see you're not taking short cuts.

[Peter Jones]

The odd injector is from an early Mk1 GTI. All the others are from the later Mk2 kjet 1.8s. I`d use the later kind in that motor.

You have had a busy weekend, good work.

Thanks Matt, That's one day's work, I got a free seat at the GP yesterday

Now I know What I'm looking for in injectors I might grab some off US ebay.

I was surprised how easy they are to take in and out.
Pete

[Jarred]

yea good work pete.

have you even gotten around to changing the brake pads yet?

[Peter Jones]

Looking good pete! Good to see you're not taking short cuts.

I've been tempted! It was close there for a while with that crank pulley.

I had to use the sort of torque usually reserved for beetle axle nuts.

I'm going to re-visit that water pump one day when I've collected enough bits to run a serpentine belt. I already have a new Mk 3 pump, tensioner and alternator, all I need is the pulleys and the time to hunt down what the right sized belt is going to be. I think Valver has done something similar.

There's been a bearing noise, I thought it might have been the pump but it checked out OK so I' re-used the original pump after cleaning out the housing and replacing the gasket.

The noise turned out to be the alternator bearings so I'll have to drop that off at the auto sparky for some TLC.

Pete

[Preen59]

I've been tempted! It was close there for a while with that crank pulley.

I had to use the sort of torque usually reserved for beetle axle nuts.

So you're saying you got the longest bit of pipe you had on the breaker bar and jumped on the end of it?

Know the feeling, it took both my old man and me to get one off an early combi at the workshop once..

[Preen59]

I'm going to re-visit that water pump one day when I've collected enough bits to run a serpentine belt. I already have a new Mk 3 pump, tensioner and alternator, all I need is the pulleys and the time to hunt down what the right sized belt is going to be. I think Valver has done something similar.

You'd be correct. I asked him about it in his project thread and he put all the details on there. I'm going to be doing the same thing.

[Peter Jones]

yea good work pete.

have you even gotten around to changing the brake pads yet?

See page 1 of this thread.





New TRW pads all round.

I haven't fitted the rear discs yet 'cos I backed the car into the garage and I can't get it out till I've got the front back together. I'm also waiting on rear suspension bushes so I can drop the beam right out while all the brake lines and cables are disconnected. Might just have to paint it red!

The TRW pads were recommended to me by my brake shop as being comparable to the EBC Greenstuff pads which are not available for my front callipers. They're soft which means they should bite well but can be dusty, which doesn't bother me. They're also good for 650 degrees and a good compromise for road and track I was told.

I'm with holding judgement 'till I've driven on them.

The pads I was using were new ols stock when I got them and contained ASBESTOS. Great!

Pete

[Preen59]

The TRW pads were recommended to me by my brake shop as being comparable to the EBC Greenstuff pads which are not available for my front callipers. They're soft which means they should bite well but can be dusty, which doesn't bother me. They're also good for 650 degrees and a good compromise for road and track I was told.

I'm with holding judgement 'till I've driven on them.

The pads I was using were new ols stock when I got them and contained ASBESTOS. Great!

Pete

I know a guy that sells EBC greenstuff pads, and he can get the 239mm GTI pads... Well atleast last time i spoke to him.. How come you say they are not available?

[Peter Jones]

So you're saying you got the longest bit of pipe you had on the breaker bar and jumped on the end of it?

Know the feeling, it took both my old man and me to get one off an early combi at the workshop once..

Almost.

We once "borrowed" the stop sign from the end of the street to use on a 3/4 breaker bar to get a beetle axle nut off. The brakes wouldn't hold that Kind of leverage of course, we had another bar bolted up with the wheel bolts.

Was sort of fun, you could pick the car right off the ground and the nut still wouldn't let go. We ended up drilling and splitting the nut.

(We put the stop sign back when we were done)

Pete

[Preen59]

Almost.

We once "borrowed" the stop sign from the end of the street to use on a 3/4 breaker bar to get a beetle axle nut off. The brakes wouldn't hold that Kind of leverage of course, we had another bar bolted up with the wheel bolts.

Was sort of fun, you could pick the car right off the ground and the nut still wouldn't let go. We ended up drilling and splitting the nut.

(We put the stop sign back when we were done)

Pete

Haha! Yeah, it's amazing how tight some things can get. The old man has taken a cold chisel to them before and split them off..