1980 B1 Passat Project

[dubai gti]

Pete,

You've excelled yourself again and are an inspiration to many others of us...if only we had the time (and a lathe...)

Glad Jody wanted to save this Passat !!!

[Peter Jones]

Crawled under the dash and stayed there for most of the day.

Pulled the cluster, cleaned and repaired all the gauges.

Upgraded to LED illumination too just to brighten things up a bit and take a bit of load out of the cluster circuitry.












We're going to get a dash re skinned once it's back on the road, ignore the cracks for he moment.

Also replaced the ignition switch, I'd patched it up as a stop gap. It was not working when we got the car, the ignition was wired to work off the parkers.



Found the indicator switch was coming apart. One of the cast posts that gets peened over to keep the mechanism together had snapped off due to years of yanking on the high beam.

I drilled and tapped it for a M3 Screw. Fiddly stuff but achievable.



Then I spent the next two hours getting the horn to work. What a right PITA!

Restored the dash fan wiring too, it had been 'modified' because of a once fitted a/c system.

Cable that operates the heater valve looks to be stuffed too, hopefully a golf one is the same length.


Nearly there....

[Peter Jones]

Here's a few more photos that were taken today.

The setting sun made for some interesting shadows.

[Jace]

I'm starting to think it's not a MK1/B1 without a cracked dashboard.
It's a shame they aren't a whole lot more fixable!

[Passatts]

How's the project going since these photos

[Peter Jones]

How's the project going since these photos

Not much has progressed in the last 3 hours, the project's gone a bit of a hiatus as was was spending time on my race car.

Those photos were taken today dude!

Pete

[Jarred]

top notch as always Pete!

(I want that steering wheel!)

[Peter Jones]

(I want that steering wheel!)

It's about 3 foot across and the steering's about 4 1/2 turns lock to lock, it's like steering a boat

[roccodingo]

I want that steering wheel!

75 Scirocco is the same..., Is that where you got it from Pete ??

[Peter Jones]

Came with the car along with a smaller sports wheel in exactly the same style. The early Audis had 'em too.

The boss is different to MK1 though as these cars have two contacts for the horn circuit.