The All New, New "What have you done to your Bay today" thread.

Spent another hour beating sidestep fragments out of the jacking point, after it had corroded itself in. All done now. Stuck me finger sander up them, followed by a squirt of Dynax. Brazzy jack now fits all of them A warning to anyone intending to use their jacking points in the future.

Grovelled under the bus to check for rot. Apart from surface rust, nothing serious, thank goodness. Cleaned out bottom slider track, no rot apart from stripped paint where the roller runs - great design, VW. Not. That got the Dynax treatment as well.

 

Don't it just make a massive difference new f panel and deffo panel .
Dunc do you know if that twin slider is for sale at that fella's place near Macc you used to rent at ...there is a geezer on here who is after a basket case .

 

Painted the pop top and bumpers a nice off white... After 5 years of brilliant white.... Much better.

Left New white. Right old white

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https://www.rawlinspaints.com

These guys have been operating the whole time


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Good news. They have my yellow on their files so I'll give them a bell tomorrow.

 

Received my log book back.......!
With the lovely classification of 'historic'

And how scary is this.....as mine is a 1979, every original, ie not Brazillian or water pumper, Bay that you see will be tax and mot exempt!
Makes me feel old.....

 

Indeed. All the German ones coming up to "Historic"

 

I put a cable tie on the top end of my dipstick boot to match the one on the bottom and wiped up some oil so I can see that it still leaks.

 

Very flash!

 

Removed one rear drum, cleaned and freed bleed nipple and one star adjuster, the other won't budge Drum looks fine, plenty of meat on the shoes, brake plates need paint, adjuster bungs missing

 

Thanks. Might make the mot man smile a bit.

 

Nicely done

 

If you unscrew the bolt part from the adjuster and wind a longer M8 bolt in, after it bottoms out...

 

Carried out a custom fit of side belly pans - now fit flush to the floor all finish painted - Carried out a brake bleed - Modified a steering wheel boss and fitted a new steering wheel - Fitted the tailgate seal and number plate light - Tomorrow take out the motor

 

I'll have to spend a bit of time thinking that thru', it's not computing at the mo' but it's been a long day....but the advice is appreciated

 

Remove shoe
Remove the "bolt" the shoe sits in.
Replace with hex head bolt, keep going when the bolt bottoms out and it will push the brass adjuster out without damaging it.

 

Gotcha

 

Waiting from JK to get a 420mm brake pipe to turn up for the other side. Then I can get it off the stands and concentrate on the rears.