1990 GTI MK2/ABF/5dr/Alpine White - Au - Mission Complete 1/7/2016

Matrix coolant volume and aome Bootilisciousness!.

Smoke? Ahhh I seeee.... Theres no smoke, i did wash it twice!

So the coolant was well over 15mm above the max line and now the level has dropped. There is more crud in the reservoir so Ill flush it out and replenish with more demineralised water and tectalloy coolant.


Ive never been one for private plates, but the SAG plate HAS TO GO!


I am happy with the bonnet


Really happy with the roof


RJ is watching, so tne rear bumper will be shimmed correctly.


Looking right back atchya CGTI, thank you all!

 

Harry, you're not finished yet.

Where's the black plastic lip that fits on the bottom of the bumper?

 

On and off the ramps, so its the last thing to do...

It is blowing a westerly gail here, so much so it would blow the phablet out of my hands.... will get pics tomorrow.

Windows went in
Wipers went on
Rear window spoiler on
Center Brake light on -after 2 hours looking for it
Coolant reservoir cleaned out
Rear bumper shimmed

Tucked away in garage...

 

That's a champion job Harry! Neat.

 

Harry it's looking beautiful
So envious of such brilliant work
I know you appreciate the advice and help the club members give you but we appreciate the work and extensive write ups you share with us .
Ying yang , what goes around comes around , symbiosis and all that
Can't wait for the final results Harry again and again top job

 

Wiper, coolant stezza and more

Another blissful day, West winds have died down, sunny, cool amd dry. Feels good being productive and while the pilaf is cooking (for those who cook it, when you place it on a moist rag and if it sizzles, its done, never open ilod and use the best long grain rice you can get)

First up I went to Supercheap, returned some goodies and came back with storage boxes and tool pouches and had a sort out.


Then panel beated the SAG plate


Coolant reservoir cleanup from yesterdatol


Front and rear wipers, brake lights etc. The RHD blank on the front wiper has a plastic cover with a long pin. It had us stumped as to how and what to take off and we split the plastic insert. So there were rubber inner tube like rings I sliced a ring off and slipped it around to keep it together and all pretty like.

NOTE TO RJ...Did the best I could woth rear bumper, Im happier!



Stereo facts. My clarion is 62mm deep and the windscreen duct support was approx -60mm, with the addition of the stereo mounting sleeve, with a little care it clicked into place without force. I fed the antenna through the bracket as the connection was on the driver side and all the other connections tucked into a gap near the passenger duct. In hindsight I should have installed it earlier as the dash bracket prevents access with the duct in place. I used a long screw driver to tuck the main connections into place.

 

Gave the entire inners and outer inside of doors a good scour with a soft plastic scouring pad and soapy water. The flushed out the remaining crud and residue with clean water to remove all dirt. My belief is water alone wont rust, its the moisture retention of dirt and muck that stagnates and causes most the damage


I had a little body deadener left in the can, so dried off what I could with newspaper and sprayed the lower seams qnd in the rear gap



Getting quite good at this and thankful my templates were the right size. I found some cloth double sided tape, said good for toupes and skin, so thought it would be better in dirty areas than the usual stuff and it worked a treat. It was like elastoplast bandage Only had one roll, so sliced down the middle on the roll with a blade and that was plenty. So first up I tacked the GRUNT BUILDERS PLASTIC into place with masking tape. Then once I had it lined up, I worked from the bottom up, tacking the plastic to window and layong an innner seam of gaffa tape and the surround with double sided.


Then carefully pulled the plastic down to the double sided tape, lined up and dropped the top down so I could reach in and tack on the gaffa and create an inward water run off.


Then released the tack and worked up the window, adding gaffa cloth tape as reinforcment for the openings


Same for he rear, getting good at it now


Time to call a nice chap in Sydney who wished to help me out with rear drivers door winder!

Happy days!

 

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Coming soon.. Exclusive to www.clubgti.com!

 

That's awsome even just the teaser

 

Awesome or not, I am officially cold now, it says 12c, but it feels less.... just finished editing todays media, mid to late this week coming... Id like it to be posted under cgti youtube account if admins want it. Ill keep an unlisted copy for my record and friends only.

Aaaaaaaaaand loving it! Give me another jumper and the hot shower before bed is going to be loverrrrrrrrly!

 

Drove her to Sydney to meet an expat of yours

And this is what I saw...


Imported from the uk

Turned on a rotisserie


BBS - bloody beautiful sunshine


Jetex, debadged


Just so Eddie can get all excited...

Porsche front brakes, mk4 rear I think, as genuine as a road legal track car can be and oooooozing with MK2 love. Jetex, roll cage and if I get back down there, a lovely dash setup too...


Leigh removing the door regulator, yes I learned thats what the "winch" is called hehe.... also grabbed door card clips, window rubbers and traded him my leftovers, to share with other aussies in need.


He was busy putting a rear camera in another mk2 owners, wife's passat and it was getting dark... hope to catch up again


Historty from Leigh...

So if anyones been hanging onto a 3dr headliner that is deserving of a magnificant car... now you know where it truly needs call home!

It was dark... you can find him on vwwatercooled.com.au in the mk2 section

 

I'm on here too ! lol

 

All the best people are

 

You two have similar accents too!

Ps.. got a lot of lookers at the car today, perhaps they were puzzled because it had no door handles!

 

Been driving her again...

No work on the car for the last two days, I have installed the door rubbers and will seat them again properly. Driven 400km in two days to Sydney twice, today we delivered my k9 love home and my neighbour Bruce drove the Alfa back to my friend Angelo who kindly leant it to me. It has a head gasket leak, the valves arent happy and while a lovely car, I had to say no to another 2.0 16v.

12c and the heater and all modes worked perfectly...

Cindy is adorable and loves to play and kiss, staffy 100%


Two 16v loves of mine


Something red for eddie


Sneak peek at her smile

 

For me

Love you long time

 

Cleaned up the driver side passenger door fitting

Thank you f320kty...

 

Admitting ignorance and guilt...

Nige mentioned my vacuum consolidation might have gone wrong, well yes and no...

I am unsure on the workings of the two nippled valve leading to the brake servo. I assumed its a one way valve and I know that I have added a second one way valve thinking my heating system might need it.

My M FA now reads 27 litres per 100km, which means I would have 120litre tank with the driving Ive done.

So, the questions are..

Is the two nipple "thingy" on the manifold to brake servo a one way valve?
Does my heating system require one or not?
The reservoir under the passenget wing, is this a vacuum reservoir?

Tks h

 

The vacuum reservoir under the passenger wing is something to do with the charcoal canister and the fuel tank ventilation

Not sure what you mean about the one way valve and the heating - a MK2 should have hot water running through the heater matrix all the time as the heater box is a mixer box and it controls the air temp

Im pretty sure there should be a one way valve in the line to the brake servo (booster in Aussie lingo) but without a pic I can't be 100% sure what u mean