Mazza's Golf Driver Daily

its not a bad idea thinking about it but I have already bought a new headgasket kit (only £30 with headbolts etc.) so it wont be too much work to remove the head and get it pressure checked. If there is a small crack or something I may just stick it back on and put an additive in the system to try and seal it up  

Not much happening lately. Shes on summer wheels now and i dropped the ride quite a bit so it sits nicely now but im paying the price in comfort!
Ive still yet to fit the twin webers so to get the car running ive fitted a smaller but better condition carb which solves massive idling issues but now has a new issue of its own  
Still not 100% fixed the head leak, it seems to have sealed itself up at the minute as if was only slightly gone after I had it skimmed.
Ive brought it with me to uni in birmingham so hopefully the terrible driving here wont cause and damage to my golf!

Oh what's the new issue with the smaller carb?

It seems to bog down around 5-30% throttle. I think maybe one of the jets is wrong? changing a diaphragm today has helped but ill try a bigger jet too to see if that helps

So after a load of rain it turns out that the rain tray on the passengers side lets in quite a bit of water and its dripping down near the fuse box and collecting all in the footwell  
The list of jobs is getting bigger and bigger but my time to fix them seems to be getting lesser

It does look much better since being lowered quite a bit more but I am paying the price in lack of comfort quite considerably!




Some pics from my trip to Bruntingthorpe

Great photos. 

But how is the rain tray letting the water in?
Just trying to picture in my mind what you're seeing mate!  

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Not quite sure tbh, but it is a little bit rusty there and possibly has formed a hole? I could be wrong and it is hopefully the windscreen seal which i have a new one and also need to change the windscreen but havent done any investigation tbh

Got a bit bored and decided to investigate the rust at the rear. Turns out the right side was pretty bad and left a decent sized hole. I welded in a little bit of plate and then skimmed some filler and painted it as a temporary fix. Its not pretty but its better than it was and im pretty impressed with the halfords paint match


Other side looks like this still which might have to wait till i can afford the panels


When i have some time ill be replacing the rear panel with a repro one because it would be much tidier than doing it this way