What did you do to your MK1 today?

Fitted some new headlights as I had one Hella and one Bosch on the car and both were looking a bit tired! Only had the new pair on the shelf in the garage for a month. Just waiting for a fog lamp to turn up now then will put the rest of the grill back on. 

Well my new fog light turned up yesterday. From France. It was yellow. 


In my excitement to have found a fog light I just ordered it, not paying attention to the slight yellow tinge, just to the numbers and letters on the lens! Lesson learned!

After a rub down with some wire wool though and a little spray of "chrome" paint, I was left with this:




Happy with the result, just hope I've used enough adhesive on the lens, or I'll be back to square one! Need to clean the overspray off the tabs as it can be seen through the grill. 

Replace new rear sachs shocs absorber 

Had this exhaust fitted a while ago and it was blowing from the centre, so popped it off and refitted it - for some reason the bracket was fouling on the heat shield for the gear gator, so got the angle grinder out and lopped a bit off, shouldn't rattle now! 

refitted retrimmed rear seat, wired up the starter motor, tightened up the throttle pedal connection.

The rebuild continues….

next jobs

refit rear belts and parcel shelf supports
reinstall front seats
refit windscreen
finish reconnecting the engine wires
install rad and hoses
fill with water/afreeze.
fit boot carpet
fit body trim
repaint door mirrors
etc.
etc.
 

16v swap done… 143hp at the wheels… Smokey old 8v maybe 70hp or less…. PDQ now

looks good, was this a self installation, and is that a power steering reservoir I see there too?

Craigt said

looks good, was this a self installation, and is that a power steering reservoir I see there too?

Yup and Yup

Todays project…..  Sub was lookin a little rough…. Had an old seat cover ….. 1 hr later

MrPapageorgio said

Todays project…..  Sub was lookin a little rough…. Had an old seat cover ….. 1 hr later

Looks smart mate good work 

Replaced the BBS reps on my '08 Citi Storm with OEM VW VeloCiti wheels, suits the car much better IMO and despite a decent amount of low not catching or rubbing at all…

Rads still puking.

I did 150k! I was obviously on a dyno when I took that photo…

Replaced new glove plugs and termostat 

drove "snowy" into Bawtry … with his poorly knocking engine.. but saw a guy from the "forum" pincher? And had a chat.. wife says even though she's not a mk1 lover.. that's she's no issues with giving him a heart transplant.. as long as it doesn't affect value of her 1st anniversary wedding present..
MOT passed also.. last week. new tank, new distrubuter, new tierod ends, and arms, new fuel filter, new HT leads, rear shoes and drums change

Got mine moved to its place of resurrection today 



Fitted the new single lamp grill, new lower duckbill and new GTI badge to. 
Terrible pic when dark

Changed the carburettor rubber boot thingy and scraped my knuckles,

:/

Tried to start it… Failed. 


Apparently the moist weather doesn't agree with it…

Removed front door cards and soundproofed / insulated before changing speakers

Put the rain cover back on