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ignore me completely :) i've just checked mine and i have it wrong!

Yeh guys realise that! I'll get a.photo of the saucer thing I mean later.

where's the larger metal 'saucer' shaped thing? from memory my order from engine bay down is:

nut

metal saucer

----- bodywork tower -------

nut

washer

long cylinder with top mount surround

spinning bearing

large circular saucer

spring retaining cap (plastic red thing)

spring \/

/\ gotta love a bit of the old ninpo, still have my old books, if i had my time again i'd do jujitsu every time.

guys following John's PM i have other priorities for the wheels at the moment, so will have to give this a miss :(

looking forward to seeing some of these on your motors.

If you weren't in Belfast i'd pay you to come down and fix the C!

Currently feeling pretty **** about it. Thinking about throwing it the garage and leaving it forever or selling it for a massive loss and getting any old piece of crap to drive. Really am felling pretty depressed about it all.

 

Hopefully i'll better in a few days and will want to try again. :(

hey man i'd of popped down already if i was local :) its a pain in the ass when they don't run right .

kr and 9a exhausts are exactly the same lift and duration, not sure if there is any particular distinction between either type.

what you need is an old school mechanic who knows how to diagnose faults on mechanical injection systems, there's bound to be someone round your way!

i'd check the various fuel pressures around the metering head, i have the correct readings at home, but you'll need to buy some fuel pipe, pressure guage, T piece and means of connecting to fuel pipes.

everyone seems a little scared of doing this, but it let me set up my old valver properly once i'd got the kit together.

two factors affect price i'll pay, first reliability, only my first valver ten years ago never let me down, which is why mine is weekend only; this leads to second factor, many are becoming or have been weekenders only, current economic situation means people can no longer afford to run them, whilst others cannot afford to pay as much for them.

i think they're a future classic, who cares if they're not worth that much any more, i don't view it as an investment fund, and i didn't realise there was a bubble in prices in the first place.

6yrs on from my previous post and i'm in the same job.

looking through the names, you don't see many that are still about from when this thread started, i must be an old timer on here!

fitted the VDO guages I got from Cazzavr :cheers:

really don't like the cubby hole factory ones, and don't like the pods on the windscreen pillar either, took a few hours to chop out the ashtray and lighter, modify the guage support and face plate, but result looks pretty oem i think and i've kept the cubby hole to boot. will relocate the lighter beneath for charging ipods etc.

go compare a poly bush side by side with an oem item, the inner core flexes on the oem item but not the polybush, the oem item is encased, whereas the polybush isn't, the oem items are difficult to get in for a reason, i'd rather have them very tight than just tight. in addition, once fitted correctly you almost need to lever the beam back onto the mounting brackets with oem bushes, it's called pre-tensioning according to yanyards who has the VW workshop manuals, i'd wager with the polybushes it slots right in.

crikey that's a busy few nights you've had! looks like a good finish you've managed there too, be interested in cleaning stuff too.

ah man that is a bummer, good you're focusing on the opportunity rather than the hassle tho :)

hope its not all bad when you get it stripped.

free shipping as well :)

i wouldn't call that touched up at all then, it's just clever use of lights and angles, well worth the detail marathon as your motor looks flawless :notworthy:

yeh nor me, like the sprinter vent, that's on my to do list.

link to emergency toolkit http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_232701_langId_-1_categoryId_165572

8) man i'd be excited if i was getting that back soon, looks a great finish.

halfords do a wee 'just in case' toolkit for about £19, very handy, it fits under my centre cushion on rear bench, i also carry a fire extinguisher for a bit of peace of mind and a selection of fuses.

can't comment on the suspension, but re beam bushes, its felt by people in the know that polyurethene bushes don't flex in the same way the oem items do, which are designed to enable passive rear steering, i.e. a slight lateral flexing of the rear beam.

i'm no expert but went oem for that reason when i did mine.

godamn man they look superb, i take it they shop them a wee bit?

yeh they always have a thread running about the next meet, its usually around templepatrick, sometimes they do a trundle around the antrim coast as well.

nice one on the carbon film stuff :salute:

they're great numbers for a 9a, with the weight you've shed as well I bet this thing flies, great work :salute:

that's horrendous, and that is not the only way it can be done!

so you have a bit of background when debating with these morons, the reason they've chopped that bracket, is the brake regulator bolts look like they're seized, if you cant remove the regulator then you cant get the axle mounting bolt out as the regulator sits in the way as it slides out that way, i'm guessing they had neither a spare mounting bolt nor a spare regulator in stock (forward planning?).

what they should of done is mark the mounting brackets position and unbolted the whole assembly from the chassis, they could of then ground the regulator bolts off and got on as normal!

this is what i had to do to mine as have many others, make your complaint on that basis.

EDIT - sorry got excited and blurted before i'd read your post properly, you know the score :salute:

Looks like it's just me and you for the meet so far lol

yeh noticed you'd bumped it, as an alternative could tag along on a gtini meet, never been myself but they get a good vag turn out, only problem is i'm busy last sunday of this month.

have to think of an application for these vinyl off cuts you work with!