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LC5F's Graphite Blue GTI - Pilgrimage to Caffeine & Machine
kodirl:
--- Quote from: LC5F on September 26, 2020, 10:49:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Deano45 on September 22, 2020, 11:41:30 am ---Top work ,,, great progress on this restoration so far and some great upgrades ,,, :smiley:
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Thanks fella - I am more going for future proofing for a reliable good handling daily.
If it was full blown resto, despite the good spec I don't think I would have chosen this Golf, plus I would be powder coating everything.
Wednesday -
I got some bargain priced Passat front hubs, amazing packaging and DHL'd next working day all for £14 a side
They wont make it onto the Golf for a while. They came complete with discs, bearings, shields etc.
Getting the bearings off was easy once I worked out how to hold them rigid off a car:
They got a pretty good scrub down, but to give the cleaning a leg up, I decided to be naughty:
It was only a 30 minute wash cycle, couldn't risk a longer one!
Friday -
The Axle turned up on, the good news is this one has considerably more paint still on it:
Stripped it down to the usual 2 control arms - everything was in much better shape, even the ARB bolts came out. it took a 1/4 of the time my old one took!
Night time, I installed bushes into the upper control arms
Saturday -
First task was painting the boot floor, I opted for stonechip, 1.5 cans later I got this:
Not perfect, but it should help.
Second task was getting the last 2 control arm bolts out, they gave in to lots of heat, that left me with a bare subframe that I wire wheeled the crusty areas and then rust converted:
The milestone here is I have reached bottom on the axle rebuild, apart from cleaning up parts it now all going back on.
Rest of the day spent stripping out bushes and cleaning up parts-
I think I blew out the seal on my cheap ebay press trying to take out the 2nd trailing arm bushes - metal inner pushed out, but I had to cut the alloy outer case to push it out.
The Lower control arms I cleaned up by accident are noticeably lighter than the new ones, I didn't realised how pitted they are until I noticed the PN on the new ones. Wire wheeled, rust converted & smooth Hammerite'd:
Mid control arm:
For a break, I had a go at swapping the fuel filter - I was not successful.
On the rear of the filter - the Blue clip hose undidid, but black clip was previously out is now jammed in and refused to budge despite several doses of brake cleaner and penetrating fluid...
Everything has now had a good lick of paint, hopefully tomorrow it will just be some touch ups, pushing bushes into arms and then start re-assembly.
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Fantastic work. Great detail. Wish I had the patience and know how to do these kind of jobs myself. Keep up the good work
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LC5F:
@kodirl - Thanks for the kind words
Got the bushes installed:
but managed to misunderstand the ones on the lower control arm and had to swap them over
Started going through the big bag of bolts, marking depths of bushes to strategically copper grease them:
This stops getting grease under the nut and making it easy to over torque the bolts - hopefully this will keep the cam bolts free to move. thinking about it I could seal the groove in the bolt to reduce moisture sitting within the bush.
Old leveller frame has rusted so badly it was close to tin foil thickness, plue and the arm was stretched - it wasn't genuine - so quite happy to install a cheap headlight leveler but using stainless rivnuts and bolts + thread lock to seal everything:
Finally after last touch ups the subframe was ready to go back in:
This how it looks installed:
Current state is everything on, except the mid-control arm, springs, bearings, brakes etc. They all need to be torqued up - So far I have not bothered making any alignment - think I will just put them in the middle for now - still likely to drive like a banana:
LC5F:
Public holiday for me today, so its the final push to get the Golf back on 4 wheels
Torqued up all the assembled bolts, started adding the Scirocco back plates and then the new bearings, seems the brake discs fouling the aluminium back plates, these got adjusted with hammer so they fit all round.
I had noticed the right rear caliper hard pipe between flexi and caliper was corroded -MOT fail - and the same pipe on other side was badly made when the garage fitted a new caliper after last years MOT.
I decided to swap both calipers over for the ones I rebuilt but paint was a disaster, this was along with the last Hel stainless brake lines.
Last steps were installing the mid control arm, and re-mounted the back box on the exhaust - surprisingly easy, hardest part was undoing the clamp.
Brakes bled, putting the wheels back on and off the axle stands. After a quick drive round the block I found the superpro engine mount had introduced a vibration in the dash at low speeds, and can feel the rear wheels fighting each other -alignment booked for Wednesday.
Along with them being lighter and ABS sensors really easy to remove - the Scirocco hubs do increase track and push the wheels out - Look no spacers:
maxamplitude10:
Rear stance looks really nice with the scirocco hubs i'm tempted to carry out the same on mine...:-0
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LC5F:
--- Quote from: maxamplitude10 on October 08, 2020, 06:19:40 pm ---Rear stance looks really nice with the scirocco hubs i'm tempted to carry out the same on mine...:-0
:happy2:
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Cheers - there is a bit of light rubbing under hard cornering, hoping ARB's will reduce that. Also I have not tried it with passengers in the back... may need to lift it a bit and also do some arch rolling.
So finally set a date for the MOT, in town garages are still swamped by MOT backlog they couldn't give me a date till next month, I ended up having to go out of town.
Initial test it failed on headlight adjustment - 1cm too low! - after some digital adjustment, it passed with no advisories.
The weekend before the test I had a final mechanical fix to do.
Somehow, the hand brake on the rear calipers I had rebuilt was not working, I had to swap back to the original calipers for the MOT.
Both old calipers got the pistons pushed out and a good clean out and re-grease, the older caliper got new seal and dust boot.
My rear axle is the gift that keeps on giving - it came with the smaller caliper type, but they had good flexi to caliper hard lines, these got fitted. Need to list the left over good bits to get some money back.
Thanks to the way the Mk5 runs its brake lines to the rear its really easy to bleed, both sides swapped and bled within an hour.
What I had done wrong on both calipers was the spring clip that holds the internal spring loaded handbrake mechanism in place was not seated properly -lets just say its easier to take out than put back in!
I couldn't tell as I had bolted the handbrake arm in place - Now that I know, next time I will check that its seated properly before the arm gets added.
Seeing as they were both apart, it seemed rude not to strip them fully back down and deal with the awful -supposed to be Red - orange Halfords caliper paint.
With Black Golf R calipers up front - I currently have a collar does not match the cuff situation, so off to powder coating with this lot:
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