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mechanical_repairs

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Post #326
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I have to be honest, I've not had much chance to do anything with the old rattler.

Little bits have been happening here and there which should hopefully all come together.

I need to change the clutch but when I brought the car home it had a bit of a whine on the gearbox.

The 'box in the old black car was quiet but second gear synchro was becoming tired.

I could have bought a used 'box I suppose, but in the end, I swapped this bit.



At least I know it will (or at least it should) work ok.





If you need any more gearbox parts let me know I have loads of new bits.

Carl

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Posted 29th Oct 2015 at 19:15
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Post #327
mechanical_repairs wrote:


If you need any more gearbox parts let me know I have loads of new bits.

Carl


Now you tell me! Big grin

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Posted 29th Oct 2015 at 19:34
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Post #328
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...but tea time stopped play.


Of course it did. Had Mrs Tea put the tea on the table? Big grin (Sorry).

Great work by the way, this is a great thread.

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Posted 29th Oct 2015 at 21:35
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tea boy

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Post #329
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tea boy wrote:
...but tea time stopped play.


Of course it did. Had Mrs Tea put the tea on the table? Big grin (Sorry).

Great work by the way, this is a great thread.


Mrs Tea on the kitchen table...Whistle

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Posted 30th Oct 2015 at 01:39
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Post #330
As I had car bits cluttering up the conservatory and Mrs Tea wanted me to tidy up 'for Christmas' I thought I might sort out the front shockers.

The top spring seats were very scabby and the top bearings were not very nice, despite having only done 10,000 miles.

The gaiters were split aswell, and what are the bump stops like under there?

So whilst you're in there...

I got a top mount and bearing kit and blasted a pair of top spring seats and had them zinc plated.

Here is a comparison of the old and new.




And a fitted comparison.




Once completed the struts have now been installed...

...in the car boot to be fitted another day.

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Posted 13th Dec 2015 at 23:56
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Post #331
Are you using the car now?

Carl

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Posted 15th Dec 2015 at 21:31
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Post #332
mechanical_repairs wrote:
Are you using the car now?

Carl


I took it for a run, I thought it would do it good.

It didn't.

It now has a terrible clattering noise coming from the gearbox.

Not the one I changed the synchro in, I hasten to add as I have yet to fit that.

I don't want to get stuck into it until the weather gets a bit better as it's an outdoor job.

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Posted 15th Dec 2015 at 23:05
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Post #333
see when you fitted your vts rack with new tie rods, did you fit vts rods or gti6 ones?

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Posted 17th Dec 2015 at 22:53
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Doh

At least it gives you another one to refurb LOL

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Posted 17th Dec 2015 at 22:59
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newsflash, its december, weather wont get better till may at least Razz

hows that oil reservoir?

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Posted 17th Dec 2015 at 23:07
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welshpug! wrote:
newsflash, its december, weather wont get better till may at least Razz

hows that oil reservoir?


That bl**dy oil tank!

I've just bought another 964 tank to start again... Roll eyes

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Posted 10th May 2016 at 00:22
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Post #337
alcon wrote:
see when you fitted your vts rack with new tie rods, did you fit vts rods or gti6 ones?


GTI6 ones.

If you laid out the GTI rack and the VTS rack on the floor next to each other, externally they looked exactly the same.

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Posted 20th Dec 2015 at 11:25
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Doh

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Posted 20th Dec 2015 at 14:13
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Post #339
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newsflash, its december, weather wont get better till may at least Razz


As it isn't May yet and it is still p!ssing down every weekend, the car is still sitting in where I left it.

In order to make sorting it out a little bit nicer when the time comes, I thought it would be a good idea to clean a few bits up.

I have spent hours at the blast cabinet cleaning stuff up, blown up my old faithful compressor, replaced it, then blasted some more.

Because the weather is too dank to paint anything, I had a load of stuff done like this...







The big bits are still going to get painted as I know the zinc stuff doesn't last two minutes on the road, but it should protect it whilst it's in the conservatory.Big grin

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Posted 8th Feb 2016 at 23:58
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Hello darling x

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Post #341
Tea, you must really love us. 20 minutes arranging bolts just to give us a peek as to what's happening Clapping

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Posted 10th Feb 2016 at 06:59
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Post #342
Are these left over bits your wondering where they go and are they important ? Lol

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Posted 10th Feb 2016 at 07:20
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Post #343
adam b wrote:
Hello darling x


Hi sugar Love


walker_texasranger wrote:
Tea, you must really love us. 20 minutes arranging bolts just to give us a peek as to what's happening Clapping


Of course I love you.

I was also trying to sort out what they were all for as I sent in nicely bagged up bits from three different cars, they all came back in one bag.Roll eyes

Cjwatson27 wrote:
Are these left over bits your wondering where they go and are they important ? Lol


I don't doubt that there will be plenty of left over bits, though I need to fit something first in order to enable me to acquire left overs.Whistle

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Posted 10th Feb 2016 at 22:20
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Post #344
If you still need those interior bits they have your name on them Thumbs up

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Posted 10th Feb 2016 at 22:46
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Post #345
I'm still just fannying around, really.

The car is still sitting on the drive where I left it.

When I took the subframe off the old one, those bits under the wheel arch that it mounts to were very scabby so I ordered some new ones.

They never arrived.

Well, that is half right.

There is the cup type bit with a threaded insert inside it.

This are what the inserts looked like when I finally got them out of the cups.




The inserts are still available.




There was no alternative but to clean up and re use the cups.

This is the first one blasted compared to as removed.




I had them zinc plated but they look very pitted, not sure if I'm going to paint them aswell.




Zinc plating is alright, but it doesn't last two minutes underneath a car, so I am painting over it on all the suspension bits.

I have started to etch prime stuff.

Top coat is going to be 2k epoxy.






I didn't paint the mounting face on the hubs.




Before I painted the rear arms I pressed in new shafts and new stub axles.




One day I might even start assembling something.Big grin





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Posted 2nd Apr 2016 at 01:19
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Post #346
Another great update Tea ...keep them coming m8 with lots of pics Thumbs up
Posted 2nd Apr 2016 at 07:32
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Post #347
Cleaned up the front subframe.




I thought I might seam weld it but that turned into an excercise in futility.

There must be some corrosion or something else between the seams as the welds just oxidised so I cleaned them off and didn't bother.

I just slapped on some hydrate 80 to protect it until I get round to painting it.




After all that fannying about I decided to give the car a bit of a rinse off as it was starting to go green.

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Posted 4th Apr 2016 at 00:19
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Post #348
The subframes were galvanized iirc. When mine was seam welded (at work, after ashblasting) the welder commented on the fact that he kept having it leach out of the seam during welding.

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Posted 4th Apr 2016 at 12:55
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Post #349
Yep, need to get it hot first to burn some of the crap out, all the zinc, paint, and years of s**te leach out of the seams as you weld 'em.

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Hot with a blow torch or something else?

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Posted 4th Apr 2016 at 17:47
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