My Golf Project

L1J · 18 Mar 2007 at 13:01

I had to upgrade my Photobucket account yesterday, it's just hosting the pics on this thread and done 9.5GB in 3 weeks!

Started to rub down under the bonnet this morning, got to here

Will finish rubbing it down over the next two days and hopefully get it sprayed at the end of the week.

L1J · 18 Mar 2007 at 19:32

Carried on rubbing down and started to clean the engine bay

Example of an awkward place that needs to be prepared prior to painting

Left it soaking in degreaser will be continued tomorrow.

Berger · 18 Mar 2007 at 19:50

Hmm that parts degreaser tub thing looks interesting!

Any pictures of that out the box!

Lopéz · 18 Mar 2007 at 20:30

Parts washers are well handy.

L1J · 18 Mar 2007 at 21:14

Berger said:
Hmm that parts degreaser tub thing looks interesting!

Any pictures of that out the box!

Will sort some out for you tomorrow

Lopéz said:
Parts washers are well handy.

Yup, we have one in work very useful. Need to order some degreaser for mine, hard to find decent stuff these days, everything seems to be environmentally friendly and less effective!

L1J · 19 Mar 2007 at 15:48

Mini update

More stuff has arrived from bilthamber, from left to right rust converter, rust killer and wax

The wax came with an applicator

Which has 4 sets of holes at 90 degrees apart on the nozzle to spray it everywhere!

Need to get the rust from these hubs

So made a Deox bath and left them

L1J · 19 Mar 2007 at 15:50

Assembled the parts washer, degreaser is going to arrive at the end of the week hopefully.

Phil W · 19 Mar 2007 at 16:25

Ooow that looks fancy

mark66 · 19 Mar 2007 at 16:29

So how does a Parts Washer work then?

InvaderGIR · 19 Mar 2007 at 16:32

You chuck 'em in the boxything and spray them with the washing liquid (degreaser, not fairy liquid

). Never used the one we have at home though, so I'm just guessing that's what you do...along with things like using wirebrushes etc.

InvG

mark66 · 19 Mar 2007 at 16:33

Is that it? Whats the pump for then?

L1J · 19 Mar 2007 at 16:41

You fill the tub with degreaser then switch the pump on which constantly recirculates degreaser through the nozzle on to your parts. Use a brush of some kind to agitate whatever your trying to clean!

mark66 · 19 Mar 2007 at 18:06

Aha, I knew there must be more to it than just a fancy looking sink! Cheers

Wossi · 19 Mar 2007 at 18:56

I hate using the degreaser at work, it's all I can taste afterwards and it tends to get everywhere when using the clean air line to dry the parts

Crossy · 19 Mar 2007 at 19:42

Project looks like its coming along well. Looking forward to see the finished product!

L1J · 20 Mar 2007 at 17:25

Not much done today

Gearbox before

Used this, which I got today

Much easier than elbow grease!

Ended up like this

Hubs are looking much better after a soaking in the deox bath, need a few more hours I think

Beans on toast Dave · 22 Mar 2007 at 19:00

updates?

L1J · 22 Mar 2007 at 19:01

Little update

Springs after they were powder coated

Tab for throttle cable bracket welded on to inlet manifold, will be taken to be powder coated along with some other bits soon

Need to carry on with the paint prep tonight, hopefully it will be sprayed with primer over the weekend.

EDIT

challengedavid said:
updates?

You should have waited 1 minute

Berger · 22 Mar 2007 at 19:16

You have more toys than me! No fair!

The bath looks good, what solution have you used with it?

I normally just use gunk+brush lots!

tbz_ck · 22 Mar 2007 at 20:22

Is it all going according to your timetable m8?