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The whole story in pictures The Beginning Stands just supporting car weight. They're quite far back on the chassis rails. One day soon, I WILL have a nice rad support! Funnily enough, early spec Corrados don't have the PAS cooler bar on. I guess I must have just had the exact same system as the Mk2 Golf. PAS going back on is late spec with small cylinder fluid bottle. Nice antique-y look anyone? Engine mount definitely seen better days. Shaft vibration mount still intact though. Placing stands under the engine and box. I jacked it up a little to take the strain off the mounts and subsequently the bolts came right on out :) Stand under dooberry on bottom of block. Strong enough to take the weight :salute: Orange Orange Greys: The choice of champions. The Removal 9 to go - frame to chassis bolt nearside 8 to go - wishbone bolt nearside 7 to go - rear frame mount bolt nearside 6 to go - frame to chassis bolt offside 5 to go - wishbone bolt offside 4 to go - rear frame mount bolt offside 3 to go - gearbox mount bolt Done! Rear engine mount bolts (although technically there's 2 more on the steering U/J ;) no pics of those... oh yeah and the 2 bolts for the LBJs....and the other 2 bolts for the track rods... but then it's really done! :dorky: :cuckoo: :lol: ) Had to thread the PAS lines up and over the driveshaft to get them out, which wasn't too bad. They weren't seized into the rack or the pump which was a very nice change! Manoeuvring the frame out was a little Wonky Donkey, mainly as I had left the second jack underneath it :nuts: Not quite sure what happened to the engine mount, hydraulic oil leak maybe? or perhaps it just died! rubber looked like it had melted and reset... Took the U/J off of the rack which never really worked properly. I'm gonna use this rack's track length as a rough initial starting point for the fresh rack: hopefully it will be alright enough to drive it over to Captain Lazor's Align-So-Fine :lol: You know you own a Corrado when you permanently lose half your driveway :cuckoo: The old in the back yard. You can see the newer copper line on the PAS rack. Unfortunately it always leaked, not much I could do. Didn't want to sling a spare pipe on cos I'd lose motivation to do all this! Anyways, I tentatively attacked the wishbone bolts with an erwin from the off: not taking any chances! Unfortunately heard a *CRACK* on the second one...oh crap.... :pale: PHEW. I'm getting better at this... :grin: 20 mins after my wishbone victory. Frame is ok, flaking in a few areas but still solid. Needs a good lick of POR me thinks. Mount of doom. This thing really does seem to have failed spectacularly! :nuts: Pics of the freshness up on the car when I get round to it :salute:

Some people are theorising that I'm using the engine crane with load leveller....but this is not so. Pics are deceiving! Prodigal thought it would freak some people out if he photoshopped the axle stands out. there's one under the box and one at the back of the sump ;) Here's the before and after...a brother's got skillz!

It's the subframe, Captain 70s. I pulled the frame and it's connected parts yesterday, took about 3 hours all in. More pics up soon.

If my project thread could stop being the gay dogging capital of the universe that would be just grand :sad: :lol: [Rolf]Can you guess what it is yet?[/Rolf]

I've got new vw arms and they are a big improvement over 17 year old arms and springs but you do have to change the blades regular. Apparently the lupo items last a lot longer. I like the standard look of the originals but they still lift off the screen in the rain over 100mph. :shrug: So I don't do 100mph in the rain which is probably sensible anyway. :) :lol: DOn't think i've ever put mine on over 100! Mainly cos i've never been over 100 :ignore: Prodigal has them and they seem to work...

This? Why do all your cars have to smell like fish? You've gone wrong in your mindtank :scratch: If you want light power, go for an Origami V12 :clap:

Love the avatar. If you know what I mean.

*ahem* Anyways, Mic_VR you worked it out yet? It's the bottle in the hedgerow :nuts:

:luvlove: :luvlove: :luvlove: I've got a free evening and a tub of lithium grease :norty: You're next Stu :camp:

:rofl: Can I take a guess at 1,420,490,367,238,908 pages? You cut me deep back there! Besides, I'm the comic relief for this forum. If I wasn't here, you'd actually be doing your day jobs :shock: :shock: :shock:

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:nuts: Less teasers tomorrow. Perhaps ;)

I saw something odd underneath the front end this morning when I was poking around doing coolant things (I'll get to the HG, don't worry ;)). DUnno if i'm going crazy or whether something is missing? could someone have a little look at it for me please? :scratch:

Rain-X: £10, Lupos: £754.23 (guesstimate) Standard wipers ftw :salute:

Woop! awesome Dec, soon you'll be whoop tishing people in no time :nuts:

tank vent valve perhaps? think it attached to a clear hose about 1/2" thick in the wheel arch.

K-Jet can be made to fuel correctly up to 200hp. There are a bunch of people on CGTI who have tuned them :salute: not sure how easy it is though. Kev, is E85 some magic go juice? Should I know about it? Should I be friends with it? :nuts:

Glad it's sorted :salute:

fuel guage sender is under rear seat. Pull it out and the unscrew the large black plastic circle which covers the in-tank fuel pump section. Check the connectors in there :salute:

Flange with sealing ring: 026121144E, less than a tenner and very easy to do. Just those 2 bolts AFAIK! :salute:

The way aircon is able to be cold is because it has a heat exchanger which takes the heat out of the air (kinda): just like a refridgerator does (A/C is pretty much a small fridge unit), so yeah you're right, it will be picking up the heat coming out of the A/C system and then telling your fans to come on! I didn't realise any of you boys ran A/C! that's pretty cool (no pun intended :nuts:)

YES please :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: my spare crank is fooked! Else I got one lined up from Shaggy for £15 which isn't bad.

AH cheers steve, didn't read yours before posting :nuts: yeah, valid point on the spec for sure. Head wise, I think I can manage head bolts and the gasket, plus a new belt just to be safe. I'll get the spare rebuilt up asap and swap it in. DOubt the C will see much roadage over winter now...maybe though...

AFAIK, it's +- 1bar and as the lowest and highest are 3 bar apart, I'm guessing it's fooked?

Considering the pump and stat were both fine and the results of the compression tests, I think Plum might be off the road for a little bit.