What have you done to your mk4 (golf/bora) today?

[vwthunder]

Well didnt do it all today but:

Got and chucked on a set of Oz Racing Superleggeras

Bought a GT3076R

Wow sick and can we see pics of the wheels

[WhO]

This Photo is from another thread about the bora's chassis rigidity thus why its up on a stack of pavers lol

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z124/WhO_0386/IMG_0047-1.jpg

[trickysimon]

Well didnt do it all today but:

Got and chucked on a set of Oz Racing Superleggeras
Installed r32 brakes
Got Hawk Hp Plus pads for the rear
Pulled out the front control arms to put in R32 bushes + nolothane as old bushes had torn clean through
Bought a 2nd ecu and contacted Chris from C2
Left a certain manifold at my mechanics to get 2x 02 bungs welded in
Bought a GT3076R
and a whole bunch of other bits and pieces

Car will be off the road for a few weeks, or more likely a few months with me currently working 50+ hours a week all night shift thanks to a string of employees leaving but there are some "interesting" mods on the horizon

Hell yes!!

[dylan8]

Clocked up 150,000km... poor bora.
Found my aerial is missing a chunk of rubber. good thing thats getting replaced

[Driven Threads]

Wheel alignment and camber correction at rear. Ready for the dandenongs cruise tomorrow! For anyone in VIC that would like to join us check out the events section.

[dylan8]

ran some plastic polish over the headlights fitted to the car.
cleaned up the clouding the up a little, but it'll do until i get the others in

[audi-tone]

yesterday fitted my retrofir aero wipers from veedubmachine, Volkswagen Audi Seat Skoda Porsche spares and accessories - great profuct.
also fitted new hatch door struts as the others were failing.

[kaneda]

Just finished putting all the doors back together after changing the widow regulator clips to one piece steel items , re-tinting the glass as they had a few marks and removing the soft-touch rubber from the grab handles

[Dyldo]

spent 5 hours of my Saturday attempting to fit the stage 2 refresh kit and my Weitecs shocks/springs. and you know how far i got? 2 bolts. thats it, 2 bolts. Now i'll be the first to admit i am a noob with a spanner, but thats ridiculous.
what had me stumped was how to undo the upper strut top nut (under the cap) to get the strut to fall off and out. i tried my airgun, but she was dead. i tried my air-spanner, but she too was cactus. so i had given up the ghost on doing my shocks and started on the susp refresh. given that i was already stressed from the hours wasted on the shocks i didn't get very far with trying to get the lower control arm out to press in the bushings.
By the end of the day with light fading i found a forum post that hinted at using a sparkplug socket to undo the top nut as it is hollow and can be levered from the outside rather than as a socket. so i slid a 7mm allen key down the guts to hold the spline and voila! a few turns and off came the nut.
tomorrow shall be a big day i can tell, but i am keen to try and do it all myself and learn - not to mention save about $500 in mech labour.

this site, however, hints that i need another specialty tool to undo the inner tie rod end - How to Replace a Tie Rod DIY for VW MKIV and A4 Platform Cars Jetta/Golf/GTI/New Beetle - and i'm not sure of how to undo it any other way?
maybe i should post this in the susp section...

[audi-tone]

always fun changing suspension parts. fitted my coilovers with my mate and it took about 4hrs all up. when i canged the control arm bushings the car was in the air for 2 days haha - ended up beating the bushings in with a mallet and a piece of timber with a hole cut in it. worked a treat though; also broke another mates vice in the process!. hehe

[Dyldo]

any hints on how to crack and undo the inner tie rod end?

[audi-tone]

Didn't have to do anything like that. Was pretty straight forward actually. Sorry I couldn't help!

[Dyldo]

well, 9 hours of my sunday gone and i have a bit to report (but not a completed job). so what did i do today to my mk4?
- took both struts out
- compressed new strut assembly ready to go in
- removed and refit pass side tie rod and tie rod end - was a PITA job
- removed pass side LCA and pressed out front and rear bushings - bit of a PITA
- tried to remove driver side tie rod and got stuck at the boot with failing light
- tried to remove driver side LCA but got stuck due to front bushing bolt won't clear sump (Do i really have to take the sump out?)

[Back Door Shenanigans.]

Kept up with a gt3 through the twistys along mundaring weir road. Good half hour break to fang it down heh. Very surprised that he wasn't getting away from me kept up in the twistys with no problem, infact his tires started to squeal through some of the more sharp bends. Guess he wasn't full on fanging it.

[WhO]

- tried to remove driver side LCA but got stuck due to front bushing bolt won't clear sump (Do i really have to take the sump out?)

Nope dont take the sump off, i came accross this a few days ago getting mine out!

Best way: Use a couple of jacks to support the front subframe then undo the 4x subframe bolts (and possibly need to undo the 4x p/s rack bolts). Lower the subframe until the bolt clears the sump

My slightly dodgy way (because i'm a lazy git): Undo the two bolts on the drivers side of the subframe, It should lower a bit, the bolt will nearly clear the sump. Use a jack and a block of wood on the engine sump and raise the engine on its mounts gently, dont forget its a weak as all heck alloy sump! Now get some form of leverage between the subframe and the chassis, a screwdriver in my case worked and gently push the subframe down, doesn't need to be much till the bolt will clear and hey presto.

Although i just thought, you might get away with undoing the dogbone mount and then using a ratchet strap on the bottom of the motor somewhere to the front of the car somewhere to effectively twist the motor away from the bolt, might work?