tigcraft
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A quick repair sometimes is to use sheet plastic from a builders cement bag or sand bag. That’s a very thick grade and wrap it round the ball and pop it back through. Done it many times on loose gear levers and similar as it gives it that nice ‘new’ firmness
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Looking well and clean
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I like them unmolested and that’s a nice example. Any pics of your ball joints??
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Like the gaiter btw! I need one too
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And such simple things as dropping your windows by the feel of the switches, adjusting radio etc is done safely on old cars. My Arosa makes me feel alive, good and a sense of achievement. My brain has a workout, that’s best thing for my body.
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This made me laugh and feel smug this morning when i opened my monthly Which Magazine. It makes me enjoy my ‘basic’ Arosa much more when I read stuff like this and i know I’ve done the right thing by owning and driving a ‘drivers’ car. What’s point of getting a loan to the hilt for a new car for the spec you would never use or want?
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It’s the anti roll bar link bush. Please please please use a bit of thick 6”x 6” plywood to support the car and not like you’ve done as old cars are thin in those corners!!
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How much wax was pumped into the sills?
tigcraft replied to mk2's topic in Car Care, Maintenance and Mechanical
There’s plenty of space and good access. If it’s damp then you’ve holes. -
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That’s an interesting series of cuts to do all of that. It’s the sort of challenge I’d be happy do myself with a bit of planning. Bet there’s easy 200 hrs in that just to drop the floor in and sit the engine, box and running gear in. I was once going to do that with an early polo in the early nineties as I had a spare UR quattro running gear. I was influenced by a friend at the time who had an XR4i floor pan and the running gear in a 1985 XR2 RWD.
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@mk2 nicely worded!! What I would do to add to that is air intake pipe off and ‘chuck a grenade in it’ with some easy start, or squirt some ‘premium’ high octane petrol down the plugs then start it. Although OP says all the electrics are back and working, does that include spark plugs too?
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There was a mini cockup in my specs. The standard size is 6J not 6.5J so it’s only oversize by 12.5mm although the offset sends the wheel outwards a bit too. My idea was not to use mad 8J rims but to get close to std and just make it look deeper.
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For now I’m going to run my winter tyres off which are thin 165/65/14. They will be stretched but that’s also a good thing as I’m playing safe and checking wheel arch clearance.
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I like the challenge, want steels, looks the style, made to fit, stronger than alloy…….. what more can I say?
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