so at the end of may i drove down to nottingham to pick up my first ever golf, i have wanted a mk2 golf for years and i couldn't believe when i found a black 3 door with no rust, a fully recon gearbox and 10 months mot and 6 months tax!
on the way home one of the nylon clips on the gear linkage broke and i thought oh god here we go! but we ended up bodging the linkage together with 5 or 6 elastic bands and drove the remaining 120 miles with unable to get into 5th gear, but i was loving it nonetheless
the oil cooler had given up the ghost so i replaced that along with a tsr performance gear linkage kit i purchased from the bay and also had to get a new tyre as one wasn't holding more than 14psi
then about 2 weeks after i'd had her the engine made a funny rattling and i pulled off a slip road to see what it was... i didn't get a chance to pull over before it jolted and cut out. turns out a crank shaft bearing came loose and seized the whole engine
so then i was stuck for what to do, do i recon the engine, get a second hand one and take a risk, or do i cut my losses and get another car
i quickly got rid of the idea of getting rid of the car cause she'd made such an impression during the journey home (even with 4 gears i couldn't wipe a smile off my face) then i thought if i get a second hand engine it could all happen again and could be a total waste of cash, so i bit the bullet and told the garage to strip it and send it off to be rebuilt.
that's where i am so far, i'm waiting to get it back atm, every single part in the engine has been replaced with new genuine parts shipped over from germany, so it's by no means a second rate job! it's been bored out to 1.9L and i'm also getting a new clutch fitted and all new belts, so it really will be like new!
in the last 5 weeks i've been acquiring parts so that when i get her back i get on with everything:
polished audi pepperpots with 5 stud adaptors (20mm spacing)
4 bridgestone potenza tyres 165 50 15 for a nice stretch
front splitter, as the current one has a chunk out of it
new undrilled airbox with pipercross panel filter
jom stainless strut brace
fk ak street coilovers
full stainless exhaust system (got from someone down the road breaking one the same as mine for £20!)
and hopefully should have a stainless manifold in the next couple of weeks to release a few more ponies
then i need to get the wiring for the headunit sorted, also get new leds in the dash clocks and get the mileage matched up and that'll be it for a while until i can afford a full respray (doubt that'll be before christmas)
so here's a couple of pics of the old gal i've named her dobby
any feed back welcome!