Jim Bowen

I see karcher have an attachment so you can use a water butt instead of a hose to the machine, bascially a pickup pipe. Could always fill a water butt up somehow :)

quite a long time really, was out there doing it when i had not much else to do

Yeah its that tool i'm after. I think if the tool is really large its best to go for the reacharound :)

Anyone recommend one? Seen some pliers that are £15-£20 or more decent looking ones at about £50. Want to get a proper tool to do them boot clip rather than using cable ties. I see some types come with their own style of banding and then clips so you cut to length rather than use the VW clips

Really excited about driving it again now. Will be hard to get rid of this car now, must know it inside out after all this work. Sent from my X10i using Tapatalk

A mix of emotions here, got corrado all stripped now and found two pretty big problems which would of led to my funny steering that i've never been happy about. Had the car nearly 6yrs, done over 60,000miles and something has always been wrong. Local garage hasn't ever noticed these things, and my mate who was meant to be great at helping on VW's has turned out to be a bit of a guesser and not really got any special knowledge of stuff. Found my top mounts fitted wrong, meaning a nut was catching on the top mount bearing, locking the steering around corners then suddenly releasing (main reason why i stopped driving it) And just found that my steering rack boots were all loose, a pipe linking them was missing and one end hadn't been greased, meaning the track rod would hardly move, gone all rusty and siezed up. So a bit miffed that in all those years no one picked up on these problems and me not really knowing (started mechanics when i got this car). I found the wishbone bush totally loose and the front wheel moving in the arch, no one else picked up on this. Same with the rear axle, the bushes were literally falling out in bits. Not picked up on MOTs and not noticed when i took car to garage multiple times to be checked out. Only working on it myself now and going to travel around to use proper corrado specialists for some jobs. Feel like i've had the car all those years and something has always been wrong, leaky shocks, too low, siezed track rods, wishbone bushes totally gone, axle bushes totally gone. Looking forward to getting it back on road now, MYSELF :mad: Rant over, although at the same time i'm happy i think i know whats been wrong

think mine is a 10turn, i don't really know, i kinda got into the hobby, spent a fortune on all this stuff i didn't really research and it keeps breaking :lol:

Well mine is off the car now, just took the rubber boots off and one is bone dry, the track rod joint is all rusty and really stiff. Think this is all to do with that pipe falling off. Track rod is only a few years old, but will get another. Thinking of fitting my original rack back on, getting car on the road, then I will work out the fault if its still there. At least I know how to take it off now. Lol Sent from my X10i using Tapatalk

I spent two days polishing mine, and then later on talking to people the local disabled lad came "walking" up the road and stopped to sit on my front wing. Didn't say anything as he is only young and can hardly stand up. Nearly killed himself just walking over. Sent from my X10i using Tapatalk

Think at the end of thread he has starting to sell a few

The Keyence Infinity ESC. Is that for cars? Is it limitless?

i saw mine 5mins from my house and bought it about 6yrs later

i use some cheap drop ring spanners i found online, bought the whole set and only ever use the one that fits my suspension, might of been ebay specials. Or i'm sure i've seen some fancy socket with a slot in it, made for this type of job

Think he was talking about swapping the backs but not the bases. Or is that what your talking about? Sent from my X10i using Tapatalk

Am sure Bill (A1VR6) told me you could do it. I asked about it a year or two ago, but never got round to doing it. Sent from my X10i using Tapatalk

Would anyone on here be able to find the correct column bits from a polo i need on ebay? I am struggling to identify what i need, asked a scrap yard and i got confused and failed :lol:

how do you flush it out? disconnected loads of PAS pipes and still my fluid stays in the reservoir

It was rusty so must of been exposed somewhere, i had it soaking in citric acid for a couple of days when i took photo

Taken from the corsa forum (today is 10yrs to the day i signed up there, random fact) anyway, thought this was a nice little read and a bit different to the normal car projects http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=621842&page=1 ---------- Post added at 1:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 1:49 PM ---------- "Could I ask a favour, could some people like my Facebook page, I need 15 or something likes to get a vanity URL: " https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Wordclock/232921493459437 I would like it for him, but i quit facebook last year

i wondering now if its fallen off my ford escort and into the corrados area :lol:

Think i'm going to do something like that now, got to decide whether to fit my old 194,000mile rack which i know didn't leak, or the 20,000mile one i have that was a recon rack, been dry and sat in garage for a good few years now.

Came across this while i've been stripping the corrado and its one of the few bolts that i can't remember where it came from. Looks quite individual so hoping someone knows

I won't bother then :lol:

I'm really not sure what to do, been searching and reading old threads and my rack doesn't leak, i had some knocking but that could of been my top mount error i found the other day. Am wondering whether to just fit the fixed column and then fit the rack i bought off here, or even just fit my old rack and adjust this yoke thing if there's any knocking play? spose i can always change again in the future, i'm not ruling that out. I needed to get my subframe off anyway to sort out the underseal etc Thinking i've saved about £800 by not buying a rack :lol:

I had some clonking and always had issues with my steering being a bit vague and handling not quite right. But don't know if it was from the rack or the column or maybe my top mounts, figured that since everything else is now new i may as well do something with the original rack thats covered 194k now. Planning to stitch weld the subframe and fit the fixed column mod, then everything else is pretty much new