Shed-esque Golf2 Syncro

[Diamond Hell]

Thats a gd wieght loss. How much does it cost for this these days

£50 turned down unbalanced 'it'll be ok' stylee, or £80 'I want it balanced because I WILL be visiting the red line a lot'.

I went for the latter option.

Tom, could have got mine off and got it balanced up there 

Too slow, but I can take it up there when I collect in a month's time..... oh hang on, see previous comments about patience. 

Although as I've taken two up there, there may be a 'spare' about in due course.

[Diamond Hell]

Did some work on the Golf tonight. 

All of the sh!t off the rear seat base:



Most of the sh*t off the floor under the passenger side:



Sore left palm now. 

Nearly have a big bucket of this cr*p to weigh.  Will weigh it when I've done the other side as well.

[Diamond Hell]

Anyone want a really tidy 5-door non-sunroof headlining?

Nasty tarry sh*te now pretty much all cleared out from the floorpan.

Couple of misshapen bits tapped back to where they should be.

Headlining all cleanly removed.

Adjustable seatbelt bits and seatbelt trim all removed..... although obviously this is temporary.

Today's 'hot' advice: don't lean on blowtorches you've just shut off and put down:



Ouch.

[Dave_IOW]

Have you weighed the bucket yet?

Was that after I left? 

[Diamond Hell]

Nah, the bucket will be weighed when the brackets that have to be cut off have been removed and the remains of the sound deadening has been removed, too.

Then the seats will be weighed, too.

Then some weight will be put back in. 

Lightened, faced and balanced flywheel to be collected on 25th July.  Other stuff going on.

[Diamond Hell]

I hate spot welds.

That is all.

[tweed]

I hate spot welds.

That is all.

drill them out.

then refill by putting flat copper behind the hole a puddle weld.

[Diamond Hell]

I have a spot weld drill 'kit' from Machinemart.

On the passenger side I used the drill to take out the welds, but the VW spot welds are larger than the drill bit.  This resulted in a couple of small tears at the back of the runners.

On the driver's side I'm now using the mini-hole-saw supplied, to cut around the spot weld in the runners.  Hopefully this will free the runners and then I'll scurf off the remaining centres.

I would rather not have to fill lots of holes in the shell!

The big issue is just how many spot welds VW used on these cars!  I got most of the way down the driver's side inner runner and then realised there were STILL another seven welds to drill out. 

[JC]

sounds like fun 

[tweed]

I can see why you hate them now