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Its coming together nicely.

Robsey wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 1:06 pm I suppose by "Transporter T3" standards, that is quite cheap.
Nothing on these old VWs is cheap.
But hey ho... that is what we crazy folk do.
Spend far too much on a decrepit old vehicle.

Cheers - my thoughts too. I have been told that a petrol bell-housing should be quite cheap to find... The cheapest I have found is about £95 used Cheap in comparison to that, boils my urine when someone tells me "That's cheap..." and its literally left me on the bones of my arse to sort....

Rebushing, or filling and reaming would get my vote, hopefully low cost and you lose nothing by trying surely?

Huge difference can be seen by the casual observer as it comes to bits and gets cleaned up though. Massive difference (my perspective anyhow).

Ooooosh, that is a bit of a stinger, but you're making progress

Nice to hear things are going well Rob, nice bit of salvage work

I had to try

Aye, it'll come together though. I'm sure there are plenty of non-costing jobs in the meanwhile.

Nice progress, and it's a filthy job but someone has to do it.

Robsey wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 10:14 pm If I thought that Mandy wouldn't skin me alive after what I spent on it, it would have been with you a couple of years ago - lol.

I am not sure if that is a chance I am willing to take or not.

Though the Corsa C had a newer design than that.

Will find out soon enough. On-call so won't be messing about with the car till Wednesday.

Robsey wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 10:18 pm Cool beans.

Now to finish the Camera installation.
I found the fusebox in the Yaris very confusing.
But then, I only had it for two months, so not much chance to suss anything really.

Yeah, it shouldn't be too hard :/ right?

Just drop it off here Rob, I'll look after the Cav

Well this is it. Early van - I still have all the early coolant pipework, bar one £50 pipe only available in stainless steel. For the exhaust, I mistakenly binned all the early exhaust except the silencer and steady bars. Late engine I have about 70% of the coolant pipework on the engine itself, bu...

Cheers all, aye 2 short brake pipes and some exhaust work.

Few advisories to resolve though.

If you use straight circlip pliers threaded through the grommet, you can stretch the hole and feed your wires through. That is how I fitted the reversing camera in the wife's Vectra. [/url] I never thought of that, I resorted to using plumbing lube (the type used on the plastic push fit stuff) - at...

Loving the progress on this one. Those bearings can be a pain in the hoop, not done many in my life, but the last few I've done have tested my sanity and the little press at my friends place as well as my shoulder trying to smash out the remains.

I didn't know that. How things change.

To be honest I am semi confident on it passing so much so I started fitting the rear camera. Feeding the cabling through the rear tailgate and associated rubbers.

Bushes and bearings have all been done over the past 4-5 years bar one bearing. drop links seem fine at the moment. Servicing is high on the list of things to do, it's been a while, but theres no smoking thankfully.

All mounts up, as for the mix of late and early parts. I'd say go for whatever gives the best feeling for you and assuming it isn't going to be silly expensive.

True enough, cover the bases.

Start as you mean to go on, hopefully those bubbles are easily dealt with once the MOT is done.

Robsey wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 9:36 pm I am sure you don't need look if you have already done all the prep-work.

But, as you asked.

Good luck!!

Replaced the rear spring that was snapped on Thursday night, that about all I have done. Should probably do a basic service on it.