Within the last week, the list of parts, which have been sitting in my office for the last week or so, grew to include:
- Gearbox Bushes
- Gearbox Mount
- Engine Flush
- Head Bolts
- Pipercross Air Filter (a present to myself)
Anyway, yesterday I’d found that the girl I liked had been taking me for a mug, so decided that to relax in the evening I’d get round to changing some parts on the Golf. I look the new spark plugs and HT leads to the garage and once again went into the box of magic trick and got my spare distributor cap out to replace on the Golf. Gave it a little clean up and checked it was alright. Also took the fuel filter out incase I got round to changing that.
First job, change the distributor cap for the newer one. I noted down where which lead from each cylinder went then took the old cap off. On checking the old one I saw that inside looked a little worn and the king lead connection on the cap looked a little corroded. Next stage, removed the old leads and plugs.
Again, previous person to service the car had done these up a bit too tight and I don’t know if they were changed 20,000 miles ago, but look at the old plugs compared to the new ones I put in.
Anyway, I had trouble with the new HT leads in 2 ways. First off, the king lead was about 2 inches too short so had to clean the old one of corrosion and re-fit that. Secondly, the leads wouldn’t fit onto the new plugs. I got annoyed and seeing as it was 10:30pm, decided to come in and watch Dave for a bit then went to bed.
This morning, went on here and was told the plugs have removable connection tips and the Gold leads needed them taken off. So out each plug came, removed the little bit of metal, re-oiled the threads and replaced them, then put the new leads in, perfect fit first time. Now I’m feeling happy with the car once again.
I’m hoping that I’ve fixed the engine problems I mentioned before. Tomorrow I’m over my friend’s house in Tiptree to get the CV joints, engine mounts, gearbox bushes and gearbox mount fitted. Could be a 2-3 days job this.