Jaaquo's MK1 Cabby Daily Driver :)

yea thanks loving the tinkering time, getting to know the old girl!  I'm looking at going to the santa cruz meet on the 1st, ill see if i can get a few mates to go with me, they don't plan far enough ahead for me to ask them now so ill ask closer to the date how many usually turn out?

Its huge mate and a great laugh, there is a thread in southwest i think that Scott has put up as we will meeting in the morning at local mac donalds with some others before we head down to the start point

Cheers

Rich

since my last update i have changed the lights for standard uk lights so now i won't be blinding drivers along the roads!
however i have now discovered a gearbox leak! its never ending this!

if anyone knows of common leaks from the gearbox let me know!

i have just spent a few hours cleaning the gearbox as much as i can and in the morning i should be able to see a trail where the leak is coming from. i think it is from the speedo housing, however i thought this was above the oil line, so we shall see.

just a quick update.
so yesterday i did the job i feared the most, messing with the timing of the engine (I'm a timing belt virgin!)

i knew there was a leak coming from that side of the engine, along the timing belt. so i stripped it all down and when i got to the intermediate shaft to my amazement the seal wasn't seated in the housing at all! how all the oil wasn't spewing out of the hole i will never know, but anyway i managed to sort the issue, changed the seal, changed the oil and filter and changed the timing belt as the old one was contaminated with oil. so now i should, fingers crossed as it has only been a day, have a leak free engine! all ready for the trip to cornwall

still got the smaller items on the list but I'm getting there

oh and if anyone who reads this wants to know how to change the oil seal on the engine block for the intermediate shaft, i wrote a how to copied the link below

http://vwgolfmk1.org.uk/forum/index.php?page=topicview&id=how-to_2%2Fintermediate-shaft-seal_2

just thought i would add some photos of the old girl

Looks lovely and clean. Nice colour too.  

thanks matey

so the old girl is now leak free and gained her stripes by making it to cornwall and back to cheltenham in 3/4 of a tank of fuel loving that mpg! i bought a new radio for christmas as a present to her! managing to grab a Blaupunkt Cupertino 220 with 25% off got the roof down today and loving this crisp weather!
i went to a scrap yard early december to get some steel wheels, thinking the winter was going to be icy and snowy, yet to see either of these tho! managed to get a set from a mk3 with decent tyres for £30! what a bargain!

new list of whats left to do:

1. lubricate door opening levers
2. ensure gearbox isn't leaking anymore
3. clutch will need replacing soon.
4. still got the rust patch next to the bonnet catch to do.

and i think thats it! nothing major and needing to be done immediately which is good news!

Beryl lives to fight another day!!!!

she does indeed! how positive are you that the clutch u supplied is the correct size etc?

jaaquo said

she does indeed! how positive are you that the clutch u supplied is the correct size etc?

have a look in the black folder there should be an a4 printout of the clutch advert in there. will most likely be near the back, should be able to read up on the one i bought

ah excellent ill look through there thanks