water under the seat and oil on the floor

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Well, I guess I will have to weld it up then, if my mate lends me his welder
I really dont look forward to taking the windscreen out to do that.

this afternoon i sat in the car with my torch when it was raining and discoverd that the offside rear light is cracked, because its dripping in there like hell. other then that I also have to seal the heater because water is coming in there too!

also i have just ordered a new rocker cover gasket to get rid of the oil problem.
and after Christmas i will do the clutch cause its slipping at 4000rpm.

and just remembered that i have to get a speedo  cable too

aaah, so much to do, so little time!!!

but the good thing is that my housemate said that he will pay for the MOT if it gets through  !?

[[han]]

the list never gets shorter.. you either find new things to fix, break something while fixing something else, or do things that are totally pointless!!

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finally i had some time to do something on the mk1.

So it was time to scrape the sound deadening out.and that what it looked like:


next thing was to go over it with the wire brush:

now it was all shiny and smooth.

then I put on a coat of red oxide so it doesnt rust away until i get back in February and then I will paint it properly. I have not got any pics of that because it was dark when I did it and I had to use the torch so I could see where to paint

this all the suff I got out on only one side:


will weigh that stuff after I got the other side done.

on friday i will continue with the other side and also I will have a go at welding up some rust

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been busy again this morning, because yesterday the subframe for the seat arrived from germany (only cost 52 euros deliverd and is brand new).


last night I tried to mount the seat onto the subframe, but the subframe is about 3cm wider then the seat on each side.


therefor i had this brilliant idea of cutting up a wierd subframe that I got with the seat.
so i cut this up and now I have got 2 plates with holes in them.


the plates have got the holes to mount the seat on, but I need to drill another 2 in each plate to mount the plate onto the subframe.

hopefully i will get that done when I go to uni later on.

ps: the neighbor asent happy when I was cutting up the old frame with the angelgrinder at 10 this morning.

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Got the holes drilled into the plates by a very nice guy guy at uni.
so when I got home I put the plates on the seat and then mounted the plates onto the subframe and tada! it fits perfectly (measure twice, drill once).

then I went to get the plastic bits off the old seats and nearly stabbed myself trying to get them off, the result: I broke one
ok i took another one off the passenger seat and tried get it into the car.
absolute nightmare, i managed to get one plastic thing in but the other one didnt go in. ok so i took the frame out and tried again, just to break the plastic thing which already went in, but the other one went in now.

does anybody have a trick for sliding the subframe in with the plastic bits on? 
i tried my best cleaning the rails and put some copper grease on.