daves16v

I've done a few rad brackets for friends and I've made in-roads this week to making them available for all. I'll let you know about the 312 kit shortly, I've got more work to put into them.

I'm thinking about putting a kit together but without the disc shield.

Yeah good to see it being saved, seems to be a lot broken these days.

Refitted my alarm yesterday with soldered joints and all wiring wrapped and routed nicely - hey I could have been an alarm fitter.

Yeah I've done that, see here - http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?47278-A-Guide-4-to-5-Stud-Conversion&highlight=stud+conversion

You may be onto something here, my login is set to 'remember me' at home and not to remember me at work, I get the problem at work but NOT at home. I'm using Chrome at both locations but have the same effect if using IE.

Did you manage to remove this?

wormy is correct, there are some with normal threads.

There's a guide to setting it all up on here somewhere.

Circlip on the gear stick linkage sometimes breaks/drops off, check this first. After this I would make sure the gear stick and gearbox linkages are adjusted correctly and well lubed.

Using Chrome, cleared out the junk, restarted browser, logged into CF and I'm still getting the problem. Not tried it in IE yet, will do that shortly. ---------- Post added at 10:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:25 AM ---------- Just tried IE, cleared the junk out and restarted and it 'appears' to log me out when I click the CF logo to see new posts. I can click on other threads and it shows me as logged in again.

Here's the short shift I've modified ready to drop in. I've done them in the past but this one is a milder reduction in the hope of keeping it a smooth shift.

Jim, if there's one thing I've learnt at least in my case it's 'don't use your Rado as a daily'. I lost the love after using it as a daily, then stopped using it as a daily and the love returned. Anyway apart from that I've ploughed too much time and money into it to let it go. Still love the noise!

Adapter bracket now fabbed up and fitted to account for the short handbrake cable and I've fitted my Stainless gear surround whilst I was at it. Next up - Short shift gear stick

I'm in too.

Thanks guys. Karl, Purpletom did them for me as we live fairly close. Wild, tried that already, if I set the cables the same distance in the bracket at the handbrake end then the brake is binding, there just not enough thread on the end of the cable to set it correctly because it's too short. I may be able to fabricate/machine something to allow it to do this, if that makes any sense.

Update time - Parts removed - Rear beam Rear beam brackets Brakes, compensator valve and all brakelines Rear shocks and springs Parts blasted and powdercoated – Rear beam Rear beam brackets Disc shields MK4 calipers & carriers Brakeline mounting brackets Stub axle (blasted only) New Parts fitted – Rear beam bushes Rear beam bush nuts and bolts Rigid brakelines (4x) + clips Braided flexi hoses Rear discs and bearings ABS rotors Pads Stainless fixings where possible Mikalor exhaust clamp Rear strut rubber top mounts Handbrake cable spring clips Stub axle covers Stub axle bolts Whilst all the above was off I checked the underside for any corrosion. Found some very minor surface rust underneath the beam brackets, at the rear strut top mount and some just above the offside beam bracket – all now treated and coated. Oh and a bit at one of the tank strap mounts. Speaking of the tank I decided to drop it down to clean properly around the arch, it’s good that I did as I ended up putting a thumb size hole in the upper tank mounting where all the crap collects. Was quite badly corroded, anyway I removed as much rust as I dare, filled the hole and treated it all with several coats of rust treatment, primer and a couple of coats of hammerite. Screws replaced with Stainless. Looked ok by the time I’d done. I stripped the rear struts down to find they had been rebuilt incorrectly and also removed the surface rust, treated and top coat hammerite. Again it looked ok when done. Whilst on the subject of dodgy workmanship, the rear compensator valve had been fitted with incorrect bolts but that was the least of my problems, the damn thing was properly corroded stuck, took a while to get it off. On the whole most of the fixings underneath had corroded badly and were a pig to remove including a carrier bolt that I ended up cutting through the head with a hacksaw blade with only enough space for about 2” of blade movement, took about 45 mins just to get through that. Now most of you will know that braided hoses are different to standard and don’t fit back into the mounting brackets with the same fixings. This was a problem with the flexis under the beam so I ended up making an extension plate that had the correct hole for the braided hose and would clamp through the existing bracket - see photos. I had another problem with the ABS rotors not fitting the new discs. I bought the discs from AVS and found the mounting diameter to be 0.5mm less than the discs that were already on the car so the ABS rotors went on but didn’t stay on. I tried to modify the ABS rotors but it just damaged them so I ended up forking out for new ABS rotors from AVS. I did query this with AVS but was told this is how they are, he did check the size against some he had in stock. Anyway the new rotors fitted fine. It’s all back together now but I’ve got 1 handbrake cable about 12mm shorter than the other which is causing me a problem but I’ll sort that before I get it back on the road. I didn’t make a very successful job of bleeding the brakes so I’ll have another go at it later. Oh and it didn’t start after being sat for about 3 weeks, turned over just fine so the battery was ok, turned out to be an airlock in the tank. Took the tank cap off and away she went. Anyway just a big thank you to Laser Mark and Purpletom who have helped with parts of the rebuild. Cheers chaps.

I'll have to let you know as I want to put a kit together.

I've made some brackets that you can bolt into place to suit the rear hump. Give me a shout if you're interested.

Yes the arm/pole that changes gears.

Gear shifter price please.

I tried to sell my VR recently but couldn't bring myself to do it.

Keeping the compensator as it seems to be good, replacing all the lines from the compensator back, so that's 4 hard lines and 4 flexi's.

Keeping the VR means I can now make progress. Rear beam is off and stripped ready for blasting and powdercoating, Mk4 rear calipers ready to go on, all other bits and pieces I already have or are on order. It's in pretty good order back there with only some minor surface rust present, the biggest problem I encountered was corroded bolts of which I snapped a few. The brake bias was a complete barsteward as was some of the hard brake lines which I've had to cut through. Thanks to Purple Tom who will be making up some replacements for me, cheers buddy. I'll update soon.

Anyone got a rear carrier clip they can throw in the post to me? See photo. Thanks Dave