Got the beast !!!

Hi all, well i got my 1983 mars red mk1 golf 1.8 gti, but wasn't a easy day !

Ok so here is how it all starts, the mk1 came up about a year ago as my wife's younger cousin was interested in them and one popped up, he asked me to pop along and have a look, we arrive and its been sitting in the guys garden, turns out been off the road for 5/6 years, had a look about and looked solid agreed a price (which i think was only £500 ) and he arranged to get it back to his, a year later it was still sitting in his garden but he did put new coilovers on, 4 new tyres and a new full 3inch exhaust, took it for an m.o.t but failed on minor items, he got fed up and bought a golf mk4 1.8t lol. so i bought the mk1 for £1000 as it was.  
So Saturday just gone i went to gsf and bought a new washer jet pump, indicator/hazard relay and 2 front wiper blades and went to his to pay him and fit the parts, turns out the relay was wrong they give but already had booked the m.o.t and it was 12.30 and they shut at 1pm, so i rang them and they agreed if i bring it down they would start the m.o.t while i would go and change the relay, jumped in and drove to them. The guy started the m.o.t i went off come back only to find it was too low and he couldn't jack it up to finish the test   so frantic i rang round and found somewhere that would do it, dropped it off, 2 hours later its ready and passed, sweet.
Went to go and pick it up to find them pushing it to the curb, i said what's up with it he said i dunno cant start it, thought great, so just went and paid and came back to the car, after trying a few times i got her to start and noticed she was idling at about 1100 rpm, knew that wasn't right but proceeded to drive home to park up, driving back and anything over 3k or 1/4 throttle it would just splutter and almost die, had to stop 3 or 4 times and turn of for 2 mins before restarting and carrying on, got it back but was stressing thinking i bought a pile of s**t. Called my mate the next day and he came round and had a look, within 5 minutes of chatting and him looking he found the problem, a tiny hose had come of the side of the actuator on the dizzy cap, popped it back on and pow, perfect lol so happy now  
All im waiting for now is the m.i.d to update or my documents to come through so i can get tax, Sureterm couldn't email me them saturday, computer problem, gutted. Here is a pic i got, more to follow after i clean her up !







History of the car itself, well she was born on the 26/05/1983 and i have an official dealer stamp on the service book up to 100,00 then non official garage stamp up to 140,00, mileage 186,00. M.O.T from 1993 up to 2006 then it was declared sorn, tons of reciepts.
Spotted too that it has all original windows as it still has the security etching of the reg on each window, so thats a result. I was going to drop a 20v AGU lump in but after seeing all this ive decided to keep as original as possible. I will try and get some new pics up soon.

Nice mk1. Sounds like a story you'll not forget after just getting her and nice to see you keeping it standard with the history engine wise!!

looks like a pretty straight car.. looking forward to more pics  

Wow good work getting her back on the road mate, all the hassle will be worth it in the end!

hey all, so after a week of having her ive found the problem, i should of really spent a couple of evenings on here and would of saved me time lol any way, so had this problem with the car which i thought was a miss fire, car started and idled fine but as soon as you apply the throttle she would splutter and all sorts even when driving it was worse, went through replacing the spark plugs, dizzy cap, rotor arm and fuel filter. Still had the same problem but narrowed it down to cylinder 1 which just seem to not be firing, got a spare lead, checked the spark, started her up and….. same again arrrghhhhhhh. So after scoping through here i soon learn that these have a big problem with rust in the tank from the filler necks, had a look at mine and rusty to f**k, opened up the sender unit to have look inside and this is what i pulled just of the little filter………





The whole bottom of the tank is full of this too….
So my next plan of attack is tank off and a massive clean of that and all the pipes and filters, does anyone think this could of damaged one of my injectors as i believe this is related to the cylinder 1 problem ?

Cheers Matt

Have you done a compression test across all 4 cylinders?Long shot but If you don't have a compression tester, take the fuel pump relay out and maybe take the coil lead off and crank it over. You might just hear an uneveness as each cylinder compresses. If you are down on no.1 you might just hear it spin over faster at the point that no.1 goes to compress.

Is the misfire all the time or just under load? - Though by the sounds of you explanation its all the time?

Have you taken it for a run and taken the plugs out to see what colour they all are. No1 might be a different shade?

The fuel filter should have caught most of the rust. Maybe worth swapping No.1  injector pipe on top of the metering head to another cylinder - just to eliminate a possible block in the metering head. :dontknow: or pull out no1 injector and swap it for another good cylinder to eliminate the injector itself.

Yer havent done a compression test, will try swapping the injectors to see if the problem moves, also the car was sitting previous since 2005 so this was the first time it had been driven since, if the weather is better tomorrow im goner go down and try the bits i can ! cheers

If its been sat that long the fuel in the metering head would have gone off and could have left a residue on the metering plunger making it lazy/sticky.

I would try the other stuff I suggested first though.

She is alive, after changing everything one of the injectors was pooped, managed to pick a decent used set of ebay for cheap and result they was fine, So recap on what i changed, new fuel tank, filler neck, fuel cap, fuel filter, dizzy cap, rotor arm, spark plugs, ht leads and injectors ! she runs really well for 187000 genuine miles :-). Just clutch and new fuel pump then engine bay pipes and breathers ! well excited though, i love it already ! Thanks guys

im having a few problems cold starting, takes a bit unless i take the connector of the fifth injector and she fires up sweet, only hard to start from stone cold when she is warm she starts on the button, is this injector problems or just the fifth cold start one ??? Thanks