"Linda" The '93 MK1 Cabriolet

[Peter Jones]

A friend of mine, Ian, purchased Linda, as he's decided to call it, off the forum last week.

Ian will take over the story once I get this out of the driveway.

My working on it is conditional on it appearing at Day of the VW in November. :-)

Previous owner is Gary who goes by the name of Geeza around here.

I offered to help out with a quick mechanical refresh prior to the the RWC.

This weekend we -

Machined the discs
Fitted new pads
Cleaned callipers and un-froze the slide pins.

Replaced both front wheel bearings
Replaced a stuff drive flange.

Re bushed the gear linkages

Replaced ball joints
Re bushed front suspension arms with urethane bushes.

Installed the new AC Delco shocks and King springs that came with the car. Front and Rear.
Installed new strut tops.

New oil cap
New Fuel cap
New spark plugs
New coolant cap.
replaced one exhaust hanger.

Oil change
Coolant change.

Brake fluid flush.

New tie rod ends
New steering rack boots

Cleaned and repacked CVs.

Changed wheels (for the moment)

Inspected rear brakes and repacked / adjusted wheel bearings.

Replaced a moulding clip.

Replaced bush in accelerator pedal.
Corrected attachment of cable to accelerator pedal
Lubed accelerator cable.
Adjusted accelerator to achieve full throttle (was only opening primary throttle.)

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[Peter Jones]

Front suspension out

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ALways amazing what you find when you start pulling stuff apart.

Different sturts left to right

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New wheel bearings in and backing plates cleaned up and painted.

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Cleaned up axles.

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Front arms stripped down.

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One stuffed drive flange. I replaced it with a 1976 one!

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Oxy cut front springs were a bit of a surprise.

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[Peter Jones]

Flanges pressed into cleand up hubs.

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Re bushed all the gear shift linkages.

Shifting was vague to say the least, some of the bushes were missing altogether.

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Refurbishe front arms. New ball joints and Super Pro Poly bushes.

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Rebuilt the struts. Car came with King Springs and AC Delco shocks on the back seat.
New strut tops too of course.

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Put all together looks pretty clean.

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Unusally dent free sump.

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[Peter Jones]

Threw a bucket of water over it when we were done for the day.

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hmmm, I seem to have a few white MK1s a the moment!

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[Peter Jones]

Still a bit of work to go yet obviously.

Haven't really had much a look at the electrics yet.

Motor seems to hunt at idle occasionally, need to brush up on how KE-jet works.

The wheels that came with the car are kerbed beyond repair so it's wearing a spare set of MK2 steelies for the moment.

Needs a headlight.

Needs a lot of detailing.

There's a few bits of body work to do too.


It's been interesting working on such a new mk1, they got quite a bit better by 1993.

[Jarred]

and people say I have too many cars...!!

All in a days work at Petes Garage.

Good work!

[Peter Jones]

I don't know what it is with GTI callipers but this is the second car where I've found both inner pads fitted to one side and both outer pads fitted to the other side. :facepalm:

There's a new back muffler on the way from Tooleys for this too, they still stock them for these later MK1s. Current muffler is rotten.

[GOLFBALLS]

Those old wheels looked like BMW Schnitzers. Were they just replicas?

[Peter Jones]

Some sort of replica I assume. Dealer fitted most likely. The casting says European Spoke.

[roccodingo]

Saw this one for sale and thought " thats going to go quickly"

Best thing I have done to our Cabrio was to revert the Kjet to Basic as it makes the slug that is a JH run better.

Will e mail you some other info.

cheers,
Grant

[geeza]

"Linda" lol! Well it was never going to be "Arnie" was it

Glad to see its getting some TLC! Hopefully will see her at the Day of the VW again

Gary

[BaldyTDC]

really wasn't my choice, the misses named it :facepalm:

[GoLfMan]

brilliant Pete! You are an absolute machine! :)

When do you get time to sleep :cookie:

[Peter Jones]

Minor update, here's Linda at the Bendigo Easter show sporting new crystal clear headlights.

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[VdubEd]

Looks nice Peter, where did you get the crystal headlights? I need to replace mine one of them's a little rusty inside

[Peter Jones]

Those ones came from Venom in the UK.

Venom Motorsport Performance Car Parts - EBC Brakes, Black Diamond Brakes, FK Suspension, Eibach Suspension, Weitec Suspension, Supersport Suspension (http://www.venommotorsport.com/)

You can also find them on eBay.

[VdubEd]

Yeah seen them on eBay. I was hoping you may have got them over here. I'm over spending so much on international postage! Thanks

[BaldyTDC]

I know its been a long time coming so here is a bit of an update, since last I've put on a new roof, referbed the wheels and now in the process of fitting a 2.0 16v seat Cupra engine & gearbox combo. more updates soon.

[BaldyTDC]

I forgot to mention there will be a shed load of 1999 cupra bits left over which I will post in the spares section in the coming weeks.

[madglf3]

Good to see you on here mate. We are actually neighbours! I ran into you at the local Coles in Sandy a while back and we chatted about Mk1s. Keen to see how the Mk1 is going.

[Jarred]

Ohhh I see.

Will be keen to see this with the ABF fitted, should be a riot!