Doesburg Mk1 - 77 2 Door

[Doesy]

So in the Primary Air Emulsion Tubes? Labeled as 89 and 94 in this diagram??



Or somewhere in one of these,

[Doesy]

I still couldn't find anything online or in my weber book about two balls being in the primary circuit so I rang weber today and was told that the only balls in the Weber DGEV are either behind a sealed wall in the accelerator pump gallery (couldn't come out) or the one in the needle valve. So I'm still stumped.

[powerd_by_polska]

Went to see this the day before you bought it And decided on buying it but was told you outbid me! glad to see its getting the attention it deserves really was very straight and relatively rust free should make a great project. What are your plans for this beast? cant wait to see it on the road again. good luck and keep us posted

[nafe]

Glad you got this one, can't wait to see what you come up with dude.

Is there any OG paint under that pearl mess?

[Doesy]

Plans? For now it's getting rust treatment, fixing the suspension, redoing the seals and trim, fix up the wiring, general tune up and registration. Slightly longer term it's going back to original paint, getting some nice wheels, getting some low and a different engine. That's all under the lid for now though.

Yeah Nato, the OG paint is still there but it's a **** of a job to strip it back and get it looking good. The interior still has all the original paint in reasonably good condition.

So where am I at currently? Rear wheel bearings are done, rear brakes have been given a tickle up and ready for the rear suspension to be put in for the last time, for now.



Rust treatment is under way. I have a bit under the front windscreen (which will be replaced with an OG factory windshield with a nice orange tint along the top), some around where the hatch seal goes, some on the rear side windows and a little bit on the rear stone tray. None of it is serious though, just a matter of prep, rust converter, prime and seal.





The front wheel bearings are in, brakes have been checked out and adjusted. Thought this was nifty on the backing plate, original factory check stamps, 28th of January 1977, and the part number.



I'm also doing the front CVs, the outboard boots and CVs are in great shape but the inboard boots were perished so I bought a kit for them (the CV itself was fine).




Got one small thing that I'm not sure of... In this kit I have two dished washers. One is a plain ID the other is a splined ID;



I'm using two manuals, Bentley and Muir's Richard's Rabbit. Neither mention the washer being splined, so I assume I'll just use the plain one? There's only one washer in the set-up so I guess it's one or the other? There's no thrust washer on the inboard CV.




And the convex side of the washer goes up against the shoulder of the driveshaft.

Should be back on the ground in the next few days. Chrome window seal trim comes tomorrow with an engine and transmission mount set. Hopefully windows back in this week, make a start on the wiring.

Oh! I also forgot to mention, my uncle Hans is an upholsterer and he found some old OEM VW headliner material in his stash of stuff and has made me a new headliner! I'll have to get some photos.

[nafe]

Is this done yet?

[Doesy]

Haha, when is it ever done?

So after further inspection when I went to regrease my CVs I decided to replace them, just to be safe as the passenger side inboard had a slight growl and I might as well do them all while they're out. So I have those on order from the UK and should be here on Tuesday. Once I get them it's just a matter of assembly and I can get it back on the ground.

This weekend I took care of all my rust conversion and 90% of the touch up paint that needed to be done. I still have to paint the rear driver side wheel well skirt and re-do the black strip across my lower rear panel. I got the inner hatch done, The windshield aperture, the rear window apertures and I primed the inside of the hatch itself. After I finished all that I noticed one pinhole below the hatch seal area which I'll have to fix when the car comes back apart for the full respray in 6 months time.







Got a haul of parts from mk1 Autohaus, the wreckers, vw heritage and some other places. Mainly trim, including a perf passenger door handle which I re-tumbled to suit my lock and installed and a new gas strut to put on the hatch since the previous owner had added a really ****ty bracket and installed two struts. I've gone back to just one now.





As I said before, my Uncle Hans hooked me up with a new head liner, C-pillars and vinyl inserts out of some NOS VW material. I'm lead to believe it's air cooled interior material and not Golf but I don't really mind because it looks sick and he made it.




Nan hooked me up with a go of the oven so I could engine enamel the new cam cover I picked up...




And this is the collection I'm getting of quality info, besides this forum...



Hopefully next week I have some real decent improvements to showcase instead of this boring stuff. But until then.. Ta.

[Doesy]

So my CV kit came today...



So I greased up my CVs with the Poly grease and bagged them up ready for install.




The kit came with new clamps, boots, circlips and was supposed to come with hub nuts too. The hub nuts weren't in the box, luckily I ordered a set separate to the kit. Hopefully they come tomorrow so I can install everything. Otherwise I'm looking for a couple of good hub nuts :/

[Doesy]

So I got a bit of time to work on my car. Went to install the suspension on the drivers side and found that the camber washer had been replaced with a home job that wouldn't pass muster. I knew were some were on a mk1 at a local wreckers so I went and relieved it of them.

I also managed to source some new wheel bolts after trying in vain for a few weeks. Unfortunately when I received them I found they were shorter than the original ones and they aren't long enough to do up the front wheels. I'm not sure what to do at the moment, I might just run the old ones for the time being.





I finished up my painting, got the inner hatch painted in white and repainted the black stripe on the rear of the car between the tail lights. Since the old paint has the dodgy pearl over the top I tried to minimise any areas where you would see the white and the pearl together and in the locations that happened I feathered it together.




I got my new Febi Flower pots installed and got the Drive axles, suspension, hubs and all done up in the front end.




Here's how it's sitting just this moment. Hopefully it will be back on the ground over the weekend and I can start on re-doing the headliner and all.

[Jarred]

Great work, keep it up.