Peter Jones
07-03-2008, 08:58 PM
I'm just about to put white back together again after cooking the brakes at Sandown, just thought I'd share a few photos.
New Ball joints.
The originals are riveted in and have to be drilled out. The holes in the new ball joint are an odd diameter so I tapped them for a M8 x 1.25 thread and set them up like this.
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/b1-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/b2-1.jpg
Here's the knuckles with new bearings installed. One of the hubs had to be replaced because the bearing shaft was galled. The other Hub had the holding screw snapped off so that had to be drilled and tapped.
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/b4-1.jpg
Assorted brakes bits, MK3 rear callipers, The notorious GTI (Or is it Audi?:)) callipers both with new TRW pads which are supposed to be good for 650degrees.
GTI vented front discs. I'll clean that paint off the braking surface before I put them on.
New braided lines. I had the rears made in a single length to save a few dollars on fittings and to simplify things a bit. (There would have been two hoses and a solid section per side otherwise.)
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/b3-1.jpg
I also went to the bolt bar to get some replacement bolts but I had to upgrade to socket heads because they only had 8.8 s in the hex heads and the originals were 10.9. The socket heads are 12.0 which can't be a bad thing. ( If you didn't understand that last bit the numbers refer to the tensile strength of the bolt the bigger the number the stronger it is along it's length.)
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/b5-1.jpg
There's still a few more goodies on the way before I'm done. I'm looking forward to seeing how all this works out.
Next track date is in April. Hopefully I'll get the car sorted by then and take it out to Phillip Island for some instruction.
Pete
New Ball joints.
The originals are riveted in and have to be drilled out. The holes in the new ball joint are an odd diameter so I tapped them for a M8 x 1.25 thread and set them up like this.
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/b1-1.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/b2-1.jpg
Here's the knuckles with new bearings installed. One of the hubs had to be replaced because the bearing shaft was galled. The other Hub had the holding screw snapped off so that had to be drilled and tapped.
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/b4-1.jpg
Assorted brakes bits, MK3 rear callipers, The notorious GTI (Or is it Audi?:)) callipers both with new TRW pads which are supposed to be good for 650degrees.
GTI vented front discs. I'll clean that paint off the braking surface before I put them on.
New braided lines. I had the rears made in a single length to save a few dollars on fittings and to simplify things a bit. (There would have been two hoses and a solid section per side otherwise.)
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/b3-1.jpg
I also went to the bolt bar to get some replacement bolts but I had to upgrade to socket heads because they only had 8.8 s in the hex heads and the originals were 10.9. The socket heads are 12.0 which can't be a bad thing. ( If you didn't understand that last bit the numbers refer to the tensile strength of the bolt the bigger the number the stronger it is along it's length.)
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2008/03/b5-1.jpg
There's still a few more goodies on the way before I'm done. I'm looking forward to seeing how all this works out.
Next track date is in April. Hopefully I'll get the car sorted by then and take it out to Phillip Island for some instruction.
Pete