What a great ride...

On 14/05/2016 at 14:55, griff said:

Lovely car (& great thread)

Cheers! Glad you enjoyed reading it. :)

On 24/05/2016 at 15:47, joaopneves said:

What a great ride...

Many thanks! I'll hopefully be doing more work on this in the next year or so - the engine is due a cambelt change, charger rebuild and LSD rebuild. When it all comes out, it'll all be smartened up in the engine bay. :)

 

Not been out in this as much as I'd like - thanks to another build. Gave the new build a miss today, so I could spend a bit of time in it.

:)

After 16k miles, the crappy jubilee clips I'd used on my charger to intercooler pipe finally gave up. I'd intended to change them a long time ago, but never got round to it - in all fairness, they did quite well!

 

Made a bit of room in the unit

 

 

The burst jubilee clip causing 100% boost leak

 

 

The cure, thanks to eBay 

 

 

Normal service resumed again, thankfully! This car really is pointless without forced induction!

Got a ride in this yesterday, thanks to a nice dry day.

Now it's all dirty, I've got something to do this afternoon. My Christmas break isn't what it used to be!

I've finally got round to ordering a cambelt and water pump for this - it's not been done since the engine was built in 2007! Hopefully I'll get it done before I lose at cambelt roulette.

I just need it to get me to the farm where my unit is - one more roll of the dice!

That's a long time to go without a change.  I'm not sure I would be using it.

Got my finger out and sorted the cam belt this afternoon.

 

 

It's a hell of a lot easier to do when the engine is on a stand - the job was more of a faff than it should have been due to the toothed belt lower pulley being wider than a standard one. It's done now anyway, just needs a quick buff up and it's ready to enjoy again!

 

So clean, so mint... I love to see this projects.
I wish I could have the time, space, money and knowledge (actually, the most important of them all, I believe) to do something NEAR this king of work.

Many thanks Joao!

 

I've just had these powdered

Contemplating fitting them to this car, does anyone think it's a good idea? Same size and ET as the RA's.

Gave this a good clean and wax in preparation for Tatton Park on Sunday.

This car hasn't made it to any shows since the Polo Social in 2015, so hopefully I can go on Sunday. Unusually, I actually quite enjoyed cleaning it!

2014 was the last time this car came to VWNW, the only change made in that time is the addition of a few stone chips. 

Pictures courtesy of @m4ttyf (I didn't have my camera!)

I'd been losing brake juice out of the load compensator valve since just after its last MOT. It was time for a bit of fettling!

Brake fixery happened a few weeks ago - just got round to updating the thread!

The standard master cylinder always had a little too much pedal travel due to the MK2 Golf 16v discs and calipers used, so I thought this would be a good time to upgrade it.

Alloy Golf spec item installed.

The replacement of the load compensator valve would have been a lot easier if the previous owner hadn't spaffed the whole thing with grease. It was a very messy job, and as a result of not wanting to besmirch my phone, there are no pics of the job in progress! I did take this shot of my gypsy style method of safely suspending the rear end of the car at a height that allowed the operation to take place. :)

And this is the failed valve with 99% of the grease and shite removed so you can almost see what you're looking at.

Once bled up with the help of my nephew's right foot, I now have a nice short pedal travel. It still needs to be stood on pretty hard to effect the rapid shedding of speed compared to a modern braking set up, this being down to the teeny tiny servo fitted to the RHD cars - there's simply no room for a bigger one without some bulkhead surgery. 😞 I might* have a go at that next time it's all in bits!

Strange goings on recently - the last three times I've been out in this, people have followed me, then when I've stopped, asked if I'd sell it. This hasn't happened before - did old Polos become desirable at some point?

Most likely just coincidence I reckon, as most of the general public don't know what a mk2f is!

Had a bit of spare time today after a job interview, so with everywhere being nice and dry, I dug this out.

 

 

 

Whilst driving I couldn't help but notice a rhythmic miss fire every 10 seconds - as though the ignition switch was being flicked off then on again. A quick root around under the bonnet revealed that the plug on the knock sensor had disintegrated, effectively unplugging it. I cobbled it all back together again, and the weird miss fire was gone - I guess I'd better order one up! 

Had a good ride out in it, then put it back in the garage until next time.  🙂

44 minutes ago, sleag40 said:

Had a bit of spare time today after a job interview, so with everywhere being nice and dry, I dug this out.

 

Whilst driving I couldn't help but notice a rhythmic miss fire every 10 seconds - as though the ignition switch was being flicked off then on again. A quick root around under the bonnet revealed that the plug on the knock sensor had disintegrated, effectively unplugging it. I cobbled it all back together again, and the weird miss fire was gone - I guess I'd better order one up! 

Had a good ride out in it, then put it back in the garage until next time.  🙂

 

Gorgeous! 🥰

The clutch pedal on this has been requiring more and more effort of late, and today it started to get noisy too. After changing the oil and filter, I changed the clutch cable too - no jacking or lifting required, just a little entry level contortionism and in it went. The difference is incredible - I probably should have done it last year! 

 

Time to put some miles on it. 🙂
 

2 hours ago, sleag40 said:

The clutch pedal on this has been requiring more and more effort of late, and today it started to get noisy too. After changing the oil and filter, I changed the clutch cable too - no jacking or lifting required, just a little entry level contortionism and in it went. The difference is incredible - I probably should have done it last year! 

 

Time to put some miles on it. 🙂
 

My tip for changing the clutch cable is to tie washing line to the old cable's pedal end. It makes threading the new through the bulkhead so much easier.

Gorgeous car! I've found big difference in quality of cables as to how clutch feels. 

This thing still doing the biz from time to time.

was hoping to start a full strip and rebuild this year, but other people's cars now take priority.😕