Saffamon, you're working you're MK1 magic that Dirrt luffs again It's sexy as fuck, good work

haha indeeeeeed! if you ever feel the need for skinny wheel loveage the turbines could be up for swops hahaha oh get your ass on msn tooooooo

Bwahahahaha, I am wondering what the hell I'm doing with 8s on the back, as it means its gonna go from a beasty b road blaster to a sedate cruising machine to avoid mega scrubbage, and now instead of worrying about things falling off the car I've got to worry about a blowout hahaha!

and meeeeeeshka re: msn couldnae be bothered man, involves bare effort at neg o clock int morn

Schwibby schwoo!

Hairs getting a little long there salon saflectives :-) hope youre growing your locks again

ayyyye it is a bit long haha, first haircut since i went for a job interview like 7 months back now =/

i am well due a cut I've been putting it off for the last few weeks, but it needs neating up round the back! ... and sides and front

may go this week if i can be ersed! and ill try and get over to catch you and yer bro mofus

one of the neatest mk1's I've seen tbh!

best looking car youve had imo, them wheels look so right

nice one poker face, i still reckon the muppet looked ruder and the G was the ultimate daddy but yeeeeeees i do love this wee beasty, its gonna be well sick when I've got the lupolo finished and sitting on my driver alongside it

Saffamon, you're working you're MK1 magic that Dirrt luffs again It's sexy as fuck, good work

w00page. when we swapping motors then =D

I went to visit......we took a few flicks

Edited 23 April, 200917 yr by HoppyGTi

well nice golf that saf

Looking great mate, well chuffed for you after the tragic demise of kermit.

A really bright orangey trim on the grill would work for me or just stick with chrome to go with the badge and wheels.

nice one hopstar - I've got a few too.

Well hopwana came up to visit in the cadster on tuesday (i think) haha was good to catch up wi him.

was an interesting day down the unit shall we say! got the fan belt off, loosened the intermediate pulley and water pump pulley bolts fannied about getting the lower timing cover off, got the tensioner off, fitted a new one which was desperatly needed as the old one was rubbing against the belt =[

aaaaaaaaaaanyway, went to fit my new cambelt, and its only the wrong it, its about 1 1/2 times the width and same for length, so i had to reuse my old belt! grrr, oh well cest la vie, new one is ordered from vw by rachy so shes a star!

anyway some pics from the evening

so on to saturday, i had grand visions of fitting my new 4 branch and new exhaust studs but i put the plans on hold, mainly because i overslept till 5 hahaha but also because i couldnt be arsed with it going wrong and if I'm getting the exhaust and inlet manifold off i might as well change the headgasket while I'm at it, turns out i think its due as I've noticed a bit of sludge collecting on my expansion cap =[ I've got a new headgasket and ill get the cambelt next weekend, so i think its definatly a job for the bank holiday weekend! All i need to get a some new head bolts and I'm set. oh forgot to add i got a new water pump. I would like to use the block I've got with brand new pistons but using the original bottom end and gearbox means less faffing about as i need it to be ready for reliable daily driving by the end of the weekend

So onto saturdays stuff i did do.

my drivers rear coilie is set too low and is scrubbing on most bumps, all the others are fine on any road surfaces bar mchoosive potholes but even standard cars aint safe on them.

passenger arch rear

drivers arch rear

unfortunatly my coilies seem to be a bit siezed grr and i didnt want to put any proper stress on it for fear of snapping an adjusting ring, the c spanner or merking my hands on some delightful inner arch! so i left that as a job for sunday and fitted my locking wheel bolts that id finally got out of the crashbot.

saturday night we were meant to go to a rave in worsley but as the only person who hadnt drank i was the designated driver although we were going nowhere with 3 up and that arch gap so we didnt botther in the end =[

so sunday it was fooooooookin baking and try as id like i couldnt sleep past midday cos the sun was beaming in so i set off to halfords to get some plusgas to unsieze the coilies although i completly forgot about it when i was there and came out with hermatite blue and silcion copper gasket sealent, autoglym polishing kit, clay bar kit and a machine polisher. ffs!!!

so after a burger king flex, i set out getting all 3.5 mighty raging horses in motion to help me cut my grass which was like a wee mini jungle! and set about cleaning, claybarring and polishing the car, which didnt come out too bad, the only problem is it makes you spot all the other imperfections more =[ paint imperfections i dont care about really but noticing bodged repairs and other things make me grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! i may have to offer defeat and buy a temporary daily while i do some bits and pieces on here, or at least get teh hole welded up haha! just finding time is a bastard working all week, if i could weld i would have done it as the first thing when i got her... meeshka!

anyway some piccies =]

you can see the oil patchs that have been left from a leaky oil filter housing and oil cooler take off jobbie, i took it apart cleaned it up and used a silicion copper gasket stuff on it, so tomorrow is the acid test to see if its done the job!

and two karile took just as we'd finished fitting the coilies

Looking great mate, well chuffed for you after the tragic demise of kermit.

A really bright orangey trim on the grill would work for me or just stick with chrome to go with the badge and wheels.

cheers dude, hahaha not sure on the orange, although might be a homage my first car, a black fiat cinquencento sporting, althouigh i ripped the orange trims out the bumpers painted them black and put them back on haha!

when i refurb the wheels next year ill probably do them white with a polished dish, and have a white grille trim but till then I'm undecided, it needs something on the front, deffo needs tinted front indis and pressed plates tho

howdo saf

you still got that other golf shell?

Saf i love this golf! A little bit of sex wee just came out! Looking sweet on the new rims, shall try and catch up sometime soon

howdo saf

you still got that other golf shell?

Hey man,

Yes i do! I wouldnt mind getting rid asap tbh as I want the space to push the polos out and get to work on them!

Saf i love this golf! A little bit of sex wee just came out! Looking sweet on the new rims, shall try and catch up sometime soon

Thanks dude =]

Ill try and get down to a Mid's meet soon and say hello again, not been down to one since the tail end of last year when I had prescilla!

I was at Alltypes over the weekend, was a top one, sold a fair few bits on the autojumble, managed to pick up a red and chrome grille trim (red is currently on at the moment) for 20 pound a piece, bargainous, a 13 row oil cooler for a tenner and some magnecor leads off Hoppy which ended up saving my bacon on the way home as my existing king lead decided to get wet and give up the ghost, the new magnecor kinger had us up and away again. win

ps. car was running like a bag of spanners near the tail end of last week, a new contact breaker point (2.50 win) solved it, and was a piece of piss to fit. I actually love non hall sender based dizzys =]

had a chat with a friend over the weekend about a bike carb'd lump for the crashbot, as id like her to have the go to match the looks =] mind you if i did stick that lump in there i would want a subframe and hnr kit again hahaha!

Frick me its ace Saf. I think a mk1 is next for me (when I've paid my traveling debts off!)

It looks sweeeeet!

Heeeyyyyyy!!! Sally Sally! :-)

Well,

Its been an interesting month for charlie murphy!

At the tail-end of april I noticed a fair bit of gunk appearing in the header tank so either a full coolant flush was due or the headgasket!

First on my list before tackling the headgasket was to fit a new timing belt and tensioner, stripped the existing cambelt only to find GSF supplied me the wrong belt, they gave me a diesel one, 1 1/2 times as long and as fat, so that was a no-go! new tensioner fitted and old belt went back on!

So slightly miffed, i text my mate Rachel who works at Derby VW who got me a genuine VW cambelt, which i should have done in the first place!

So come the weekend, my new cambelt had arrived so I travelled down to pick it up and to embark on the mission of doing the headgasket. I decided to do it on a bank holiday weekend to give me lots of time to do everything properly, clean and paint a few things and if any eventualaties came about, time to sort them as everything had to done and dusted come the monday ready for work.

So over the three days i did the following

New VW Oil Pump

Painted Water Pump

Painted Rocker Cover

Painted Inlet Manifold

Painted Throttle Body

New Thermostat

New Thermostat Housing

Coolant Flush & Change

New VW Cambelt

New Exhaust Manifold Studs /Nuts/Washers

New Rocker Cover Bolts & Washers

15w40 Oil Change + Filter

New Bosch Starter Motor

Headgasket

Got everything back together and got the old girl fired up, only to find the water flange at the side of the head leaking! arghhhhhhh! It was due to my laziness of not cleaning up the gasket face impeccably, so took it apart, cleaned it up only to find that my new gasket id put on there had already given up the ghost ARghhhhhh! sorted with some hylomar, my new best friend! =]

So the car was sooooooorted, only to find out on the way back home, my clutch was slipping =[ possibly due to the water leaking onto my flywheel when it pissed out the side of the head! a job for another day i think, I've also noticed a bit of oil collecting at the underside of my gearbox, and due to it not stinking like fishy choca, I'm guesstimting the oil seal has gone on the side of the block, not to worry, shall get sorted when i change the clutch.

Was pretty happy with the car until 2 weeks later when she refused to idle properly, would kangaroo unless you gave it beans, was fine at higher revs but poor at low revs. The spark coming from the coil was blue but the spark from the leads was orange, 2 days later the tacho kept jumping from 4k to 2k and back up again, harked back to my hall sender dying on my last mk1 gti. So new hall sender then, checked out the dizzy to find out it actually has points and a condenser! must be another quaint difference of the series ones!

So new contact breaker points then, thankfully they are like 3 quid from GSF. WOOHOOO, fitted the new contact breakers and the car was back to normal again, i didnt have to touch the timing and to be honest set the points gap by eye, had to lean out the mixture as it was sitting at 2k instead of 1k after fitting the new points, timing is still spot on at TDC.

So with the car working again it was off to All types when i managed to pick up a red stripe and chrome stripe grill and some magnecor 8mm leads.

Thankfully the 8mm leads came in useful as we lost power on the way back from all types, stuck the magnecor king lead on and all was sorted again! phew!

So come this weekend just gone and i decided to head down to Derby to help the homebrew crew paint a hijet for the mongol rally, i also had to fit a new outer CV boot as my existing one split a couple of weeks ago, noticed it when i fitted the new wheels, however another saga was encountered haha!

Travelling home from the unit at 3am friday evening and the car started pulling to the right, char asked if i felt like a side wind, i was like yuuup, she shit it and automatically thought it was a wheel bearing cos there was no side wind =/ after turning the music off the car pulled again and a loud dakka dakka sound was heard, so pulled over and found the rear wheel able to be moved about an inch in and out the arch, sick instant camber!

so towed back to the unit, ready for attacking the next day. Yeti picked me up some new wheel bearings and I had a crash course in fitting them, basically never done them before, whipped everything off, got it all cleaned up and new bits greased up only to find i hadnt removed the outer races from the drum before fitting the new ones! gio showed me how to sort it and i was back on form again, 2 new wheel bearings fitted and all was good again.

Decided that i couldnt be arsed doing the CV boot after that saga as it was long and it was ridiculously hot, so much so i ended up doing some nude mechanics =/ so decided to fit my new autocavan solid rear gearbox mount, only to find that the actually existing rubber mount was missing the two nuts that hold it onto the chassis leg!!!

Read last night on fastgolf.co.uk that its been noted on a few other mk1 golfs so maybe they are like that from factory. how terribly bizzare. Anyway the gearchange is perfect now as its mated to my missing linkz short shift kit, just a shame my clutch is slipping so i cant give it full throttle beans grr! I have noticed a ridiculous amount of vibration however, i think having a perfect mount at the rear has made the fact the other engine mounts are 30 years old much more prevalent! So thats another job on the list haha!

It was about 6 o clock now and there was still a ridiculous amount of light and since we were milling about while karlamon was painting and we werent leaving for a bit i decided to attack the cv boot, which was a breeze after doing some in the past. I found it was far easier to remove the inner cv and replace the outer cv boot that way rather than boshing off the outer cv as damaging it would have left me immobile!

So that where i stand at the minute, I've seen a brand new cylinder head for the 1.6 for sale, ready to stick straight on, so I'm mighty tempted as I've been looking for a spare head to get rebuilt and ported/polished, id be happy sticking this on for the time being (getting rid of my fubarring annoying tappet noise) and having my existing head fettled with.

However, plans are to try and devote as much time to the lupolo now, I've managed to get some R1 ITB's and inlet manifold for the lupo gti engine so hopefully itll give me the kick up the arse to get the rest of the outstanding jobs done, i would write a to do list but id end up crying haha!

Missions!!!! :-D

Glad to hear youre going to carry on with lupolo now , woop for R1 TBs too

boo for non existant side wind wheel bearing based fails, yay for the saf and his pimp as fook small light golf based WIN!!!!!!!!

love it. :)

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Dakka dakka noises FTL

Dakka dakka noises FTL

Tell me about it .....

Buying a 6 point cage and rebuilt cylinder head at the weekend...

Grand total, less than 1/3 of the retail price of the cage alone =]

next month may even see prescilla back in town as I'm contemplating buying it back off the new owner

Sweet! Will look mint with the cage in, and bargain price too Buy it back, you know you want to

Yay for the return of monkey bar central :-D

There is a Mk1 Golf at Loom's at the mo dont know what year 5 door though ...

Thaught i would let you know

well some fucking cheeseburger decided to drive into the back of me yesterday.

gutted isnt the word =[ stupid insurance company have said that the car will most likely get written off =[

meeshka!

pics tongiht

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

innit, sucks donkey balls. damage isnt that bad in reality as the bumper and bumper crash bar took alot of the impact. its smashed a rear light cluster, creased the metal under the light and lightly dented some of the rear qtr and rear valance.

so if anyone hears of a small light rear panel, new rear valance or very good s2 rear panel i can chop up please let me know

it was a well spoken asian man in a cabby beemer z4! gaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

a lovely lady did stop and offer to be a witness for me so fingers crossed it gets decided in my favour, and if the car does get written off because its uneconomical to repair then hopefully i can buy it back and keep it on the road.

grr

Arrgh that sucks big time man :( whats that, your neck hurts? Whiplash compensation you say?