My cabby clean up

Nice job Jules  

Taronpeacock said

Julesgreycab said

Yeah I think these are 14's but with a 60 profile to give same tyre circumference.  Car should be done end of April then it'll be down in Cornwall and meets will definitely be needed. Just saw a b plate black gti cabby in Falmouth so there's another lurking down here that I didn't know of.

Is this the one with the red roof and the back window not cut out?!!

Yeah I think it was, looked in reasonable condition

Hairyarse said

Nice job Jules  

Thanks, knocked up two so if it fits and works I think the spare will find itself in the agm raffle

So a quick update on the cabby. All rebuilt again after a head skim. Linkages sorted and today it went for its MOT, result, pass with 0 advisories. Although speedo cable broke on the way down to the garage so something else to replace.

You didn't really expect to be completely plain sailing did you  

Good news on the pass. All that hard paid off then.  

See you on the 26th!

Excellent news on the mot, well done  

Matt

So today was a goodun fitted new leads, dizzy cap rotor arm etc. and put the new boots on



And finished welding and painting a roof rack too!


Two bolts and no drilling into anything on the car. Simple but effective.

Oh liking the roof rack Jules, nice job!  

What's it going to carry?

Surfboards mainly. The main disadvantage of my design of using the the bits the roof handles clip in and the roll bar means it's strictly a hood down roof rack but then it'll only be used in the sun, or worst case is the surfboard will act as the roof.

Yeah I had guessed the roof wouldn't be going down! Good job though still  

Good job !!!!!!

So finally a full weekend and a long run meant 150 trouble free miles a speedo that fixed itself and a great big smile on my face.

Cracking pic Jules  

roof rack is epic, top work!! car looking Clean  

Excellent.  Love the roof rack. 

Car looks cracking.

I bet it's a really big smile 

Long overdue but thank you for the positive remarks. With summer and idle thumbs however has come some more items for the to do list. Replacing the aerial with a more in keeping retractable one. And a whole bunch of connectors, thick speaker wires and new speakers to replace the old shot original kit. (Pics coming soon) and maybe if I get fidgety a version 2 of the roof rack but this time polished stainless and maybe teak rails.

Sounds like some plans Jules.

So the rear speakers were in a poor state, so even the cheapy replacements will be a vast difference

And I might have gone overboard on the new wiring, looks more like rope!

Wiring overkill!

I replaced my rear speakers with some cheapies off amazon. Still sound OK though.