The diesel daily!

I love the blue, my mum had a vw that colour when I was a kid

I does look very unmolested and solid, good luck with it

J

Finally behaving itself now hopefully over the worst of the grief. because it so bare bones in there (I haven't even got a cigarette lighter to charge my phone!) i'm having trouble tring to find a switched feed to run my 2 knobber jobber from and cant find any spare pins on the fusebox to run a feed from. . Onwards and upwards, going in next wednesday to have the rot at the bottom of the screen pillars sorted out. second hand diesel pump purchased (thanks superpete) and new head gasket ordered, Things are definately looking up!! and I gave it a decent wash to get rid of all the white wax powder that was left behind.

Firstly the rust snap..


And some pics from the for sale ad.. looking better now already I reckon..





And then the new pics..



Anyone know anybody with 4dr side strips for sale?? or a cl chin spoiler, that front valence looks terrible!

Oh and nearly forgot my state of the ark stereo!

blans said

Anyone know anybody with 4dr side strips for sale?? or a cl chin spoiler, that front valence looks terrible!

Looking good Blans  8)  8)

pm me your address and I'll send you my drivers door side strip, as I've ust changed mine for chromies  :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:

That Radio is good man.

Is the Car Lowered ???

It's Got bright red springs and it bangs at the slightest pothole, So I reckon that's a yes ..  :mrgreen: Hopefully getting it back tommorow with nice hole free windscreen pillars!!!

Not back from the shop yet    Apparently it's a dash out job now. . . at least I know it's getting done properly even if I am having to get around by foot in this freezing weather  

Anyway here's another if anyone else has got the diesel bug..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-golf-mk1-gtd-resprayed-/330493771900?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4cf2f6c07c

Looking good Blans  Hope you get it back soon, as it getting pretty cold at the mo.



Looking good there, and thats the back of our workshop behind :wink:  Bonville road Brislington eh :wink:

Have you been to a bristol meet? I'm thinking of popping along soon.

Pete.

Yeah went to my first the end of last month.. good bunch of guys. Bit nervy meeting new folks but everyone was sound. Looks like next one is gonna be new year, come along mate.  :mrgreen:

naa we should get a xmas meet! richyhill… if your following this thread. get on it


i want this car lol, its a nice project

Been a while since my last update.. quite alot gone on since.  :?

After a couple of weeks of trouble free motoring since it coming back from the body shop (which I am more than impressed with I must say) I started getting a fluid leak from under the car??? looks watery and feels watery .. a quick taste and it's lovely sweet anti freeze. ok. So I top up with water and run upto temperature at which point water comes gushing out the expansion bottle.. now with hindsight I'm thinking that it's just the water finding it's level in the system but as a precaution I'll stop driving it, And so it gets parked up once again outside the flat. Cue the freezing temperatures last week. I'll just chuck a litre of anti freeze in just to make sure it hasn't fired all the other stuff out when it put on it's water fountain display, and so once again it's run upto to temperature to make sure all the anti freeze has circulated and this time i've got an altogether different kind of leak this one being being turquoise an diesely smelling.. at a rate of a drip about every second off the bottom of the diesel pump.   guess that spindle oil seal has finally give up. Now my daily driver is a pair of size 8's and an MP3 player!! and my car which was to keep me warm and stylish through the winter now looks like this…



Methinks someone didn't set the timing up to well at some point as well…



The offending diesel pump.



Love this car…. Starting to get the feeling it doesn't like me though..  :mrgreen:

I have the same problem, My pump has started to leak. In the midst of saving some dosh up to get it fixed and right.

Just think of it once its done it will be fun to drive

Well it's back.. sort of. The new head gasket is on and it's now running again albeit on the old diesel pump which is leaking like a seive from the distributor head and not the throttle spindle as I first thought, We wanted to run it up to make sure everything was ok and then do the pump at a (now sooner) later date. Pops wouldn't believe me how bad the leak was.. he knows now. Anyway suffice to say it's leaking at a rate of knots all over my parking bay which now has a leak pad in permanent residence!

Lovely clean head now though.. and a little lighter.



The exhaust has now taken to splitting itself in half on at least 3 different occasions but luckily the middle has come away leaving the back box in place and me to carry on my journey back home with what sounds like a bag of spanners dragging underneath!! at least now the working days are back I will be able to get it up on a ramp and straighten it out properly.

but other than that it's been trouble free.  :roll:  :mrgreen:

Got this made up too but not sure if I like the font or layout..

Is the head cracked between the inlet and exhaust valves(x4)?

Yep on all of them and it's quite normal apparently…





Middle box fell off again today and is knackered. System looks out of line, Wondering if maybe the front pipe has taken a whack at some point and has moved the rest of it?? got one on order. Car is turning into more of a money pit than the GTI!!!!

Is it a new head on order mate ?

allana13 said

Is it a new head on order mate ?

No i'm using that one.. like I say apparently it's perfectly ok and nothing to worry about. Head is back on and car is running fine…. Just the rest of it that is giving me major headaches.  :mrgreen:

I feel your pain mate

Hopefully things will get sorted

I've never hoped of anything more in my life!!    

It's now known as blue peril .. seems quite apt.


peril:

1.   a. Imminent danger.
          b. Exposure to the risk of harm or loss.

2. Something that endangers or involves risk.

every vw diesel head ive ever removed has those cracks  8O theyve all gone back on  :wink:
Bert

I've just done my 1600 gti that had the cracks in too it's running fine. Nice car mate would love a freshly rebuilt diesel engine in a mk1.