Ahhhh, unlucky man. Bet you cant wait to be dumping air all over manc

(cheers for all the help on saturday, again your a legend, unfortunatly the guy didnt have her , although he was a top bloke, still got some interest though )

mate, anytime! and dont worry about mithering me while I'm working, i loves it i do!

glad to hear its sold and you got the beembimma now! if your about this weekend, we'll have to catch up!

UPDATES!

changed all the o-rings on the injectors, refitted fuel rail!

car turned over on the first turn of the key - absolutely buzzing!

exhaust has come off again however, along with the sump, as despite being welded up on the car, it was still leaking slightly. so I'm fitting my spare sump that George (Rolo) welded a screw-on fitting onto, and Chris is sorting out finding a suitable length pipe for me from the local engineering place!

Hopefully the bits will be sorted out, so I can refit everything and take it for a lil spin and then drop it off at the garage for its MOT.

Oh and as you do, I've bought another car! Barnfind Mk1 Golf 3dr in Blue!

More about this barn find?

aye its alright. I've finally joined the land of the cnuts as its a diseasal! shall be rectifying that soon enough however!

basically old boy owned a haulage firm, has got pure decrepid, so his son and his mate are clearing out the yard, found a few mk1s and a mk2 tucked behind a few iveco trucks.

1 4 door mk1 thats rotten as a peach

1 2 door mk1 in red thats in good nick

1 mk2 golf no details as of yet

plus a load of spare parts, pillar drills, poster ramps etc

guys gonna get me a list of everything thats there so I can advertise them on his behalf. I wont be taking commission or dealing with it, just gonna list the parts and stick up his number, as i cannot be bothered with any hassle

its not too bad, needs a new rear lower valance, got a hole in the rear wheel well, couple around the tailgate, and one on the rear side of one of the rear arches, floors pretty damn clean, axle mounts are in really good nick, proper stoked

should come up pretty well with a polish, might be picking it up tomorrow or thursday

What the fuck is that on the roof!?

The seats!

Oil Drain Lines - This has been a pain in the arse!

The first drain line, that was fitted to the car, was a cut down VW jack. but it wasnt welded properly so leaked. Car turned over and ran brilliantly, no smoke, but was losing oil from where the sump fitting was welded. with the inability to get the welding torch on the upper side of the sump, I got Rolo to weld an spare fitting we had in the unit, 1/4" BSP!

stripped the exhaust and sump off, fitted the new sump. got a return line made up, refitted exhaust, fired car up and noticed plumes of oily smoke out the back and oil dripping down the downpipe!

BUGGER!

THe oil drain line was too small a bore!

So got some adaptors and some 3/8" tubing made up, drilled out some of the fittings to put less restriction on the flow, but the oil drain line sat under the subframe, so when the engine rocked backwards under acceleration, it would rip the fitting off! so jacked the engine up, fitted the oil line above it, dropped the engine, snapped the fitting!

BASTARD!

so after spending 50 pounds on fittings and lines that were at best a pikey fix (of which I knew, I was just putting off doing it properly, as I wanted it done quickly) and having to take my sump off three times, I bit the bullet and spunked out 76 quid on some gucci AN10 stainless hosing and aeroquip style fittings.

Made a boo-boo by buying an alloy weld on sump fitting, and was told by Chris that I cant weld alloy to the steel sump!

DOH!

not too bad, as the peril has an alloy sump made by RPM. so trundled off home and whipped that off, went to see Phataz, who welded the fitting to the alloy sump and we went off to the unit happy as larry.

Had a right pain in the arse getting the fittings on, and dethreaded on of the fittings and my good mate accidently dethreaded the alloy sump fitting, so the sump had to come off AGAIN, back to Phataz, who welded on the 2nd weld on sump fitting i had spare.

Another 40 quid on 2 new fittings, to replace the dethreaded aeroquip fittings, and some patience meant I finally had a proper, non-leaking, suitablly large diameter oil return line.

Pics of said oil line & fittings :-

I think the 5 minutes the car had ran with the wrong size drain back line had damanged the oil seals, as you can see the leak at the base of the turbo in this pic.

So £166 quid lighter, I finally had a kushdi oil line and a buggered turbo! This was one expensive lesson, in doing things properly from the off.

Video of the car as she is now, running and schmokey!

Does anyone know of companies that supply oil seals for Garrett Turbos?

Also is anyone running restrictors in the oil feed lines?

Edited 21 November, 201114 yr by grungeisdead

What a PITA!!!

Strange how it's always the little bits and bobs end up causing such a headache. Nice to see the RPM tuning sump coming into some good use :-)

Sucks about the turbo

Edited 21 November, 201114 yr by demolover

you shouldnt need a restrictor in the oil line, i have the same turbo as you, rebuilt it myself, got the kit off ebay, think the company was called turborebuild? i went with the 360 degree bearing kit

easy job to do anyway, try to save yourself some money and mark the comp and turbine wheels before disasembly, you wont have to get them balanced then

cheers man, yeah had a look at some rebuild guides last night and saw thier actual site

http://www.turborebuild.co.uk/p/category/0...ucts+and+parts/

it is just better to give it a full rebuild? it was running sweet before i changed the return line to a braided item which was too small, only ran the car for 5 minutes like that, before whipping it all off and fitting the new sump and enlarged return line.

is it likely to have caused all the seals to have failed, or is there one thats more prone to?

out of interest did you get the kit with the 360 degree thrust bearing?

bought a rebuild kit and stepped rear oil seal from turbo rebuild uk in blackpool. and it arrived on Friday, just in time for the weekend.

Met up with the boys up at Wards End, and after some quality munch (itchy bum chicken and spring rolls) i had all the tools assembled to attack the turbo rebuild.

got in at half 12 and despite it being most peoples bedtimes. i was far too excited so stripped the turbo down in me living room.

exhaust housing removed and orientation marked in true PTNT fashion

lots of burnt oil and oily residue behind the heat shield

the compressor side

shaft after removing old oil seal but before cleaning out the grooves

new stepped oil seal fitted

back on the car

woop!

VIdeo of the first run up to temp

I also gave a side of the Golf a quick polish

some one left the coolant lid of before revving it :p looks awesome though Saf!

some one left the coolant lid of before revving it :p looks awesome though Saf!

I noticed this too :-)

Is it all done and done then saf? I really want to see this and the cheeso grin on your chops as you're driving it

haha i was getting it up to temp, and waiting for the themostat to open, it opened about 5 minutes after the video ends and is now topped up with some tasty G12++

not all done n done lad, always got bits to do, but ready for an MOT and a bit of a rag around!

I wonder who else spots the deliberate mistake...

Coming along nicely young Saf

WINNING BASED WIN!

Awesome mate, do you adopt?

Where the green golf that use to be where your blue'un now is?

haha, I struggle to look after myself let alone an adopted bastard love child!

green golfie is up at Chris' other unit, came out for the unphased meet and rubbed through the coilover ring so is tucked away while he sorts out the electrical gremlins on the Mk1 TD he bought!

I wonder who else spots the deliberate mistake...

Coming along nicely young Saf

Thanking you Mr Morris!

Been up there tonight, finished up a few odd electrical jobs, earth wires, and guages. really enjoy soldering!

Just thought, I've not even checked if theres any seatbelts in the car, or if they work!

Jobs still on my to do list once its MOT'd but in no particular order, or hurry.

- Get ally pipes and bends to make some nice all in one induction hosing with beaded ends

- tap said hosing for the aquamist jet

- fit aquamist bottle/pump and relays

- hoover out the inside and finish stripping sound deadening

- weld up battery tray

- get a boot strut

- refit rear door cards

- refit lower dashtrays

- board out and carpet rear for sounds

- remove dodgy number plate light from rear and bung hole, eventually weld up and repaint section of boot

- get some different 14 inch wheels

- powdercoat the 256mm calipers & carriers, rebuild and fit with EBC discs and Ferodo pads off the Mk1

- Think about seats. Already eyeing up the Blue Harnesses from the Mk1 polo, but I'd want fixed back seats, as I'm not happy about running harnesses with standard seats!

- fit an oil catch tank

Edited 28 November, 201114 yr by grungeisdead

we went on a mad 'un he wanted it done for GTI festival and smashed it!

- remove dodgy number plate light from rear bung hole

Do you need TP for that?

I am Cornholio!

Well the previous suspension kit was lowered springs on standard shocks, with the bumpstops removed! so on the trip to the MOT station, I managed to mangle the arch and take a chunk out of the tyre down to the cord!

Some new tyres on the front and all was sorted!

Now fitted ta KW 60mm kit on the front, with 15mm Bonrath Lowering top caps and new top mounts, and the suspension is suitably stiff to ensure theres no arch to tyre contact :)

Unfortunatly this cracked the paint on the arch trim, so they have been taken off and will be nitromoored and then back to blacked and put back on the car. On the flip side, the arches were super clean underneath so I'm stoked :)

Just got to whip off the 256mm brakes and discs off the Mk1 Polo tonight, fit them tomorrow, give it a good bleed and then I can get it over to aruns for a bit of welding on the battery tray and although I want to cut out a slightly crispy patch by the drivers jacking point. Its not gone, but was an advisory.

Car now s MOT & TAX so looking forward to driving it, although I dont think it'll be doing many snow miles!

Edited 6 December, 201114 yr by grungeisdead

videos!

boooooo what can i use on zee arches then mo'lickeramon

Sandpapr and texture paint.