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.Rear dampers on with (in case you’ve forgot..) new genuine springs and powerflex bushes. Rear end of prop tomorrow i think, or connect handbrake cables up.
Question on that.. my old one were routed any old way, i presume the correct way is over the beam and down between the ‘Y’ of the trailing arm?
Also noticed looking at the pics that ive dented the disc splash guard a bit… will have to straighten that out
This last section of prop was surprisingly hard to get in!! Lots of curse words were uttered..
Put on with new CV boot and nice Rallye counterweight donut ?
Couple small jobs today due to rain, handbrake cable hooked up and secured. And the vac and breather lines attached to the freewheel. After sticking the breather up into the chassis (as it was when taking apart) i found an old thread on here where its meant to be put into the harness sleeve. So i think thats a good idea, will change that shortly..
It’s coming along at a good pace! Last bits of brake pipes put in ( from bias to front to rear pipes)
Just adjust handbrake and fill up with brake fluid and it’s all a go go!
It’s alive!!!
Gave the brakes a gravity bleed with the bias valve held open, need to give it a go with the power bleeder now to get rid of what should be some trapped air and return some pedal to me.
On a strange note, it really felt like the brakes were binding, jacked up the rear and the wheel wouldnt move.. Traced it to the spacer that i fitted to the caliper carrier now making the carrier hit the disc!? God knows how that happened!?… Anyway, removed them and all is good. Handbrake adjust up nicely, just need to give it another tweak now its settled. Now just all the gremlins to iron out…
Been out driving it this afternoon, after giving the brakes another bleed. Still not 100% but a LOT better. Does drive very nice with no creaks or groans 😀 and i think the ride height is quite nice too..
one thing that isnt right is the handbrake. Rallye cables are meant to be 1600mm long, after adjusting mine they seem too long. im at the end of the adjustment on the cable and it still isnt really tight enough. A bit of research shows all the aftermarket rallye cables are listed at 1655mm long!? So, that would explain that!!
Golf3 syncro cable are meant to be 1592, but aftermarket ones seem to be listed at 1600mm… BUT, the outer length is 200mm longer on the rallye ones 1195 vs 995, so that could possibly make them too short… my head hurts!
Vw heritage sell rallye cables listed at near £40 each! but they are 1600mm… Not sure what ones to try, or wether i can do anything with the ones i have..
have swapped over to G60 steels for now, the speedlines need a refurb and kept on loosing air.
It was MOT time again, thankfully flew through.. although, personally i see welding in my future..
Next little pet project, is fitting a spare wheel sub, a bose unit from a mazda and a small mono amp.
all stuff now collected for 256mm brakes… below pic is the only 2nd hand parts, everything else is new..
And more excitingly i have a brand new spare wheel cover!!!!!!!
plus in late breaking news, i picked up a trailer today 😀
