What did you fix/replace on your Mk1 today?

[Shadow_Rusty]

Got to be...
It has it's change of owner rego check tomorrow...

My CV boot and Steering Rack boot arrived today... So I put them in the car... On the front seat... lol.
I will need to fit them after the rego check, and then get it re-checked...

[Shadow_Rusty]

Car had it's check...

Both front seats failed due to excessive movement...
Both boots failed (expected)...
Clutch firewall repair plate was cracked...

Spent all night fabricating a new repair plate, and fitting both steering boot and cv boot...

Both seats will be coming out early tomorrow to be 'repaired' so the car can be re-tested before lunch...

[Shadow_Rusty]

Seat runner plastics have had a 1mm spacer (piece of an old credit card) put between the top of the seat bracket and runner.
The seats now have no movement in the base, and slide back and forth very nicely...

Oh yeah, and the car has now passed rego...
Yay...

[Jarred]

Congrats!

Neat trick with the old credit card.

[Shadow_Rusty]

Thanks Jarred.

Whoo Hoo...
Car is now in my name...

Just re-read my description, and realised that it didn't read very clearly...
I cut thin strips of credit card.
I then put the thin strips between the metal foot of the chair, and the inside of the plastic feet that run inside the runners.
Obviously this only works if the plastic feet aren't broken...

[Peter Jones]

Cool, that'll work.

You can still buy the plastic feet too, there's always some on ebay.

In my previous race car I cut aluminium strips to go under the feet.

I made them longer than the feet and bent them up at either end to keep them in place.

[squirrel]

Having just gone back to the UK to retrieve the replacement radiator from my parents house, I figured I should get it installed.

So, no more coolant pissing out everywhere. For the time being.

Now, to sell the car before something else breaks...

[Shadow_Rusty]

Fixed the dash light brightness control...
Opened up the headlight switch, and the wirewound resistor had melted near the end.
Cut off the 3 melted coils, and reattached the remaining coils and now it works perfectly...

[Shadow_Rusty]

I removed the main support for the gearbox linkage, and fabricated a new bushing out of 2 pieces of a 12mm nylon chopping board...
It's still a little tight, and I haven't quite got the linkage correct, but it is SOOO much better.

No longer is it a bowl of porridge feeling with guess a gear selection...

[Shadow_Rusty]

You know you drive a Mk1 when you tell people that you run on VW time, which is approximately 30mins to 3hours after I say I'll be there...

Edit: Oops, wrong thread...