New diesel owner

[DieselMk1]

So, many MANY things have happened since the last update.

A friend and I who run Team floG Motorsport picked up a rust bucket







And then I made the heartbreaking decision.

I decided to cut my losses with my beloved Golf. But not entirely...

The original plan was to have this new Golf as a ****s and gigs racecar. The plan now evolved to have my defected Golf as our racecar and to put all of the good bits out of it into the rusty shell as 90% of the rust was surface. Queue the montage





Full dash swap







Seats swapped





Passenger guard had at one stage had rust cut out and duct tape put over top so that guard had to go and will be replaced shortly



Swapped the grille and a headlight



Found a leaking rear Welch plug



And made a silly exhaust tip



Once the leaks are fixed and the guard is replaced I shall be mobile once more

[DieselMk1]

So, the only thing stopping me from being on the road is some $2 Welch plugs. I bought 35mm plugs hoping they were right but they're 36mm. Dang. To get to them we have to drop the entire engine as there's just not enough room behind the engine. Double dang. I guess this is what you get when you park a car for 7 years without draining any fluids. Also found some loose bolts everywhere, including missing bolts on the driveshafts :/


On the other hand, I acquired a passenger guard from a great friend and fellow Team floG member and got mum to paint it up for me

[Water Boy]

Seen that before:

[DieselMk1]

Yeah I remember seeing that a while back, looks cool

[sports racer]

Before you take the engine out to replace the welch plug flush the cooling system and then put in a can of Bars Leaks. This stuff is great at sealing water leaks. On my old V8 Ford I had a big leak from one of the welch plugs and used 2 cans to fix it. Worked great for the next few years.

The front guard looks really good, makes the rest of the car look like crap. Why don't you let your mum do the rest of the car.

Cheers

Paul

[DieselMk1]

Nah I'd rather replace them as the hole is quite large in the middle one and I do a lot of country K's



Will also be giving the rest of the car a closed door respray when funds allow in the original alpinweiß (as the sticker in the boot says)

[DieselMk1]

Okay so here comes an update dump (more refined version on teamflogmotorsport.blogspot.com

The rundown, in short sharp sentences:

Bought welch plugs, but I bought 35mm plugs like an idiot. My friends got 36mm ones for me. Struggled and finally got the old plugs out. New plugs still too small for some dumb reason. Next weekend my mates neighbour comes up and makes them bigger with solder and a hammer. They fit. Replace gearbox as we found a hole from where a driveshaft has previously come off and smashed into it. Go to put it back together, have to replace cam gear that was somehow damaged. Managed to put the timing out as my cam gear has no key way for some dumb reason. Finally get it running. Drive from my house into town. Blow a welch plug on the way. Towed home. Decide to swap engines with the defected one. It gets 7million degrees and then floods. Eventually swap with the help of all my friends the dodgy way as none of us have an engine crane. Got it running. Drive it into town and we had forgot to do up a hose, no big deal. Drive it for 3 days. SAPOL puts an end to my Mk1 glory with a defect for "engine smoke (oil), mismatched tyres, no handbrake, unroadworthy brakes". Found another one to continue the story with.



Sorry if that was hard to read :/





tl;dr got a Golf running, got defected, buying another


Now, here's some photos, I hope they're generally in a chronological order

Beard on.

[DieselMk1]

**** I hate this Photobucket app stupid piece of ****ing useless **** arse ****

[DieselMk1]

Also, my Lloyd Alexander, my friend and I painting his SR70 KE70 with a paint roller, and two of all the cars





















NOW!! New Golf! Story goes, original owner died, it sat in a shed for 10 years, the current owner's brother came across it and told the current owner, he stars fixing things to sell it, I come across it, and am now buying it. 9/80 build date.
















I hope you enjoyed this bulk update of **** all, sorry about the format

xx

[sports racer]

You don't like to give up do you?

Goodonya.