JonL's 8v budget track toy - now going to be a race car! ;-)

[Horney]

Is it the outer CV? I think you can ger full replacement CV's with a new boot which might be worth a shout as new CV's will be good if you're tracking it. Whatever you do don't buy the split boot things you glue together, they're rubbish. I tried using one on this very car and gave up. In the end Mark fitted a complete driveshaft with decent CV's and boots on it.

Sounds like you've made excellent progress so far though! If you get it MOT'd by the 14th see if you can up to the No-Rice meet in Guildford.

nick

[JonLeeper]

It had better be ready by then, if I don't get it finished next week I have to pay for a complete new test, and at over £50 that's expensive.

[JonLeeper]

Well I have spoken to jamie, who I bought the car off, and he has found the washer bottle and the horn, so I will pick them up this week and they should be fitted relativly easily.  The CV boot looks like it will be a big job and I will have to take the entire driveshaft out to fit!  I am still chasing the bloody foglight wiring around the car looking for the problem.  More as i get it....

[JonLeeper]

Fault finally traced with the fogs so I can now move onto the next job, CV Boot.

[VeeDubGTI16v]

a good place for bits is gsf in badshot lea, or theres a few euro car parts around.

just seen your location, you have a perfect test drive road in the pirbright bends!

[Diamond Hell]

The outer CV boots go more commonly.  If it is the outer then you need to undo the nut on the end of the driveshaft, then the pinch bolt on the bottom of the upright.  Push the control arm down and swing the strut away on the steering arm.

You can then cut the remains of the boot off with a stanley knife and a couple of blows to the CV with a soft-faced hammer should get it off the shaft.

To change the inner boot you need to release the six allen/12-spline bolts on the gearbox flange and then the shaft will come straight off.  The inner CV is released with a circlip and should then just tap off.

If you need to do the inner I'd do both ends just cos it's off and the outer will go just out of spite once it's back on the car.

[JonLeeper]

Thanks for that I'll, hopefully, get the car jacked up later today and have a look which boot it is.  I was looking through the wheel yesturday evening and the brake disc appears to fill the space almost exactally.  What I didn't check was the size of the wheel though!  It is a normal steel wheel so I'm guessing, on reflection as I type this, that it is a 14" and I shouldn't get too excited that someone might have swapped the hubs for late 16v ones and 256mm discs.  Still I can but hope!

I trip to Halfrauds is needed as someone has pinched my trolley jack and I'll need one to get the front of the car up.  I also now need an electrical fixings kit to repair the wires for the fog light.  It all adds up this car larky dosen't it!

Jon

[JonLeeper]

On a side note I have been thinking about the brake conversions and other stuff.  I have seen a number of people who have converted their Mk2's to a wider track.  I have searched but nothing about the actual conversion and what parts are needed and how difficult it was.  My musing is this, if I have to swap the hubs to get bigger brakes then is it easy/worth fitting a wider front track at the same time?  I am all of doing things once but doing them properly so if it is reltivly easy I may as well get wishbones, driveshafts and hubs together from the scrappy as just the hubs.  If I do this I can polybush at the same time and all is done in a onner.  If, of course, it is a difficult conversion then I will just find some hubs and be done with it.

Just my musings as I am sat at work bored!!!!!

[Horney]

Wide track seems very popular although I've not done it myself. Mark has however and you can read how he went about it in his build thread.

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=76543.0

Hope that helps a bit.

Nick

[JonLeeper]

Yes that's one of the threads that got me thinking about the conversion.  what it doesen't do, and neither do any of the others i've found, is say what is required and how difficult it is to fit.  Most of the conversions seem to be done when an engine  hange is completed so I am wondering if you need a new subframe?  For example which wishbones are needed, dirveshafts and can they be fitted to a Mk2 box?  Do you need to reshape the wings to prevent the wider track rubbing?  Lots of questions and not many answers I know, but as I said I am only thinkg about it.  I guess what I am trying to understand is what I should be looking out for at the scrappy when I go.  Do I need other parts that I could pick up and store for a later day, and if so what will be useful?