Project Plum - The Plan of Attack

[boost monkey 0]

Pipe retrieved and in good condition! Thanks to sister-in-law for the skills :D

 

Will sling that on when the alternator is dried :salute:

[boost monkey 0]

Put the pipe on this morning, MASSIVELY motivated by the fact that I don't have any food in (unless you count butter and sweetcorn :cuckoo: ). Also refilled ~4litres so must have lost a fair bit. Car is running well now although could do with a G12 topup as I put ~3.5 litres of water in and the stuff that was in there already was brown and icky. Like an ick.

 

@Ron, when I said Rip Van Winkle stage I meant "sleepy time until exams are done" not "please rip one of your coolant pipes open" :brickwall: :roll:

 

Glad he's working again though, means i can continue my spate of 10-hour days on campus trying to hit deadlines! :drinking: :drinking: :drinking:

[boost monkey 0]

Coursework is getting owned, plotted a few of my CAD drawings on A3 today and they look awesome! :clap:

 

Found a couple of cross-members on Ed38 from a mk2 golf auto on 70k. Finding parts from low-mileage cars with the same part number on is awesome :D

 

 

 

£35 delivered for both which I really couldn't argue with. Told Prodigal he could have the engine mount cross-member as I already have one to go on :salute:

 

Also ordered a bunch of bodywork-stay-fresh goodies after talking to herisites, cheers for the impartial help buddy! :notworthy: As Ron's bodywork is his best feature I thought that keeping it nice was probably a good idea.

 

Also thinking about changing his name to Stella as he is reassuringly expensive! :lol: Don't worry, he hasn't had a sex change or anything :eek:

[ProdigalSon 1]

You are a frootluip. Fact.

 

Good progress though :)

[boost monkey 0]

Ha ha thanks Bro.

 

Hopefully, tomorrow my Autoglym will arrive:

 

1 litre of Bodywork Shampoo,

1 litre of Clean Wheels (prob let the 'Son have this as I'm still running Sebrings),

1 litre of Super Resin Polish,

(all 3 for £18.99 delivered)

 

500ml of Extra Gloss Protection (couldn't find 1 litre under £17 anywhere and thought it prob won't get used as much as the shampoo and SRP anyways :shrug: )

 

1 Autoglym Aqua Dry Chamois,

 

8 Autoglym polishing cloths,

 

all for ~£40 delivered which I thought was reasonable :salute:

 

The sun really brought out the swirls in the paint today, will have to remedy those soon :D

[CazzaVR 0]

Nice one- bet that paintwork will look top dollar when it's all properly clean 8)

 

Gonna have a go myself- I'm hoping for some Megs clay, SRP and an orbital polisher for my birthday. Next step is to get some Dodo Juice Blue Velvet and some Megs step 3 8)

[boost monkey 0]

Man, some of those products are top dollar. I see Dodo items are upwards of £30?! ouch.

 

I'll just stick to pimping stuff engineering wise I think 8)

[boost monkey 0]

Popping up to cheltenham tomorrow to pick up the two cross-members as above plus a low mileage subframe which should be in VGC too, all for £65! Ed38 Classifieds ftw y0 :salute:

 

hoping to pop by CazzaVR's on the way back and grab my KW suspension he is taking care of for me, plus give him his Erwins back :D

[Philuk 0]

this seems to be coming along very nicely mate :D, you doing all the work on your own or you got help with it?

 

 

OmgWtfBbq

[boost monkey 0]

i am a one man machine Phil. Mainly due to student NON finance, and partly because I've had many mk2-esque cars and this will be my 4th 16v engine(?) so i'm getting familiar with them now.

 

plus once you've flipped a car over with your man-hulk (and bro) and see how it all works from an ant's POV it makes things a lot easier to suss :salute:

 

can't wait to get the subframe tomorrow, I can start rebuilding it all off the car! :clap:

[Philuk 0]

must be mint to have the ability to do it, all i lack really is the space and the balls! :D lol

if i had the space id buy a donor car and take that to bits to try and get it working but unfortunatly it aint happening! :(

[boost monkey 0]

Found my locking wheel nut key in with the toolkit and spare wheel! :dance:

 

SO glad I didn't have to find out which wheel nuts i have and try to find a matching key :clap:

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Went and got my new subframe, crossmember and rad support today. Didn't realise how flimsy those rad supports are! My goodness... :shock:

 

did a nice round trip and saw CazzaVR who makes a killer cheese and pastrami sandwich! :salute: We caught up on recent events and then i grabbed the KW suspension, cheers matey :clap:

 

got back around 6 hours after i set off which was pretty good! Also, Ron/Stella behaved the whole way! what a legend :cheers:

 

will put up some pics of the new parts when they're all degreased.

[CazzaVR 0]

Good to see you today, Jon. Ron is coming along nicely.

 

Get revising! :hitler:

[boost monkey 0]

:eek: :salute: :lol:

 

yeah always good to have a chinwag matey.

 

gonna go check on the new parts, they've been degreasing overnight. The subframe seems to have a hard waxy coating on it, degreaser is dissolving it though... old Waxoyl maybe?

 

no pics as I have no camera. :shrug:

[boost monkey 0]

So, I worked out this K800i has a camera on and swiped a data lead off someone... enjoy the 3Mpixel goodness! I spoil you lot sometimes :lol:

 

The old cross-member and rad-support... kinda :gag:

 

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^^^ Still on the car :shock: :sad:

 

New parts before the scrub down:

 

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Looking better... Prodigal is having the cross-member as I have already refurbed one.

 

After some light deagreasing and then a wipe down, left to dry in the sun :grin: :

 

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Subframe looks worse than it is, it's all shallow surface rust. I'll be POR-15ing the subframe so the rust will be destroyed.

 

Cross-member and rad support will get the hammerite treatment.

[dirtytorque 0]

thats one sturdy rado your building matey.

:salute:

[boost monkey 0]

cheers mate. I'm hoping to keep it longer than a year: that's the record set by the Golf! :lol:

[boost monkey 0]

Got a parking ticket at uni today, sucks.

 

Was on a mud bank behind a yellow line that has been fine to park on before, I guess the warden was having an off-day.

[boost monkey 0]

So, it's been raining most of the afternoon in O-town today. Get back to my car after a rather nasty long day in the library to find a driver footwell of RAINwater.

 

where would it come through? only places I can think of is the bulkhead where the pedal cables / column etc go through but how would rain have got past my bonnet?! Last time I checked it wasn't a partially permeable membrane and hadn't told me it would like to osmose rain into the cabin...

 

i know the raintray is dead (is this the answer? is it really that simple?) but i still don't see how rain gets into only the drivers footwell. Is this another thing to add to the list?

 

so a completely sh

[Toad 0]

Bonnet release cable grommet probably. Or your door was open...

[boost monkey 0]

:shrug:

 

more investigation is needed I think...when it stops raining though :D

[CazzaVR 0]

Could also be the door membrane.

 

Think you should admit defeat, sell Ron and all your your spare bits, and buy my lovely VR6 ;)

[boost monkey 0]

Could also be the door membrane.

 

Think you should admit defeat, sell Ron and all your your spare bits, and buy my lovely VR6 ;)

 

if you're selling for £500 and if you talk HIC into freezing my insurance at £500!

[boost monkey 0]

p.s. if you saw my golf you would realise i never admit defeat! :salute: