My sort-of restoration

[Jarred]

My only concern is that if you have a polished gearbox and nothing else in the engine bay is polish. it'll look out of place.

[GeorgeMK1]

Yeah dude thats what i was worried about as well. I think i might just paint it. Other things are going to be painted the same colour so atleast it will mix and match.

What exactly do i have to do to get the box prepared for a paint? just a light sand and make sure there is no rust dirt or dust?

[Jarred]

key the surface (ie sand), wax and grease remover! (very important to make sure the box is extrememly clean and has no dirt/grime/grease on it!)and then I'd hit it with some etch primer, to make sure the top coat sticks to the gearbox!

[16v_kid]

key the surface (ie sand), wax and grease remover! (very important to make sure the box is extrememly clean and has no dirt/grime/grease on it!)and then I'd hit it with some etch primer, to make sure the top coat sticks to the gearbox!

yeah, if you don't clean it really good, your going to end up with render. The paint will react to the grease and it will look like render.

use some thinners or something to clean it too.

[Preen59]

What exactly do i have to do to get the box prepared for a paint? just a light sand and make sure there is no rust dirt or dust?

Sand blast it.

[GeorgeMK1]

I was originally worried that the paint wont stick on coz it wasnt heat proof, guess it doesnt matter. Ill have to look for a quote on sandblasting it as i dont have the paitence anymore to sand the tricky bits.

I made the mistake of painting it already (only a light coat) and thanks to the paint colour it came out extremely good. Although im a bit worried now as i dont think i cleaned it THAT well and if its gonna be painted might as well do it properly so it doesnt stuff up in the long run.

[Jarred]

... if its gonna be painted might as well do it properly so it doesnt stuff up in the long run.

exactly. Alot of this stuff is teedious. but I try and work by the motto "do it right, do it once!"

obviously you'll make mistakes with various things along the way, but by doing research and stuff (like you're doing) maximises your chances of doing it right!

[GeorgeMK1]

Hi everyone, looking for some help.

Everytime i looked at the brake booster n that, i kept thinking to myself something isnt right. Today it finally hit me that the brake booster on my orange mk1 is bigger than the swallow tail one. Could this one be from a mk3 as it is quite larger. I dont know if pics will help, but the only thing i can say is it is bigger than the normal one.






Done know if this helps but hey, what the hell.



And here is the origianl swallowtail one. see the diffeerence in size and shape.


any help would be appreciated.

[Preen59]

Looks like it's off a Mk2..

[GeorgeMK1]

Well these past few days have been putting things back together. What had to be done was, take off the pressure plate off my 1.6 and put in on the 1.8 as i cant afford a new clutch flywheel etc for the 1800, so i thought i'd stick with the one i have.

As removing the pressure plate from the 1.6 i just couldnt unlock the bolts at all. In the end they just snapped off. Its a shame as that engine could have been used somehow i guess, but anyway. pressure plate is now on the 1.8 Manifolds are also on and hopefully when my dad comes hoem from work the engine will be going, in and perhaps the gearbox as well.

Blocked off the hole to the water gally as well and im hoping it will stay. Also sprayed the manifold and it looks quite nice haha. (im going paint crazy!)
Trying to get it done for the vw jamboree but i dont have high hopes.



The water galley blockage