well i was thinking of droppping engine in today, but decided i really need to do all the little annoying jobs so i will be happier puting the engine in, lots of little
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"unseen" jobs
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first off, got the clutch on
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then woohoo gearbox on, first time doing clutch gearbox
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so now its dropped its pretty much togther apart for a few vac pipes i am unsure of
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next up i made tenisoner brackety thing for the alternator, using a mk1 one then making it fit
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then it was change the throttle cable as mine was down to 3 threads of wire, so that was changed pig of a job but go there
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and run the cable down the drivers side of the tank to give me the extra length i needed, but no pics of that
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then moved onto the handbrake where that had been fully disconnected for the fuel tank out, so got all that bolted back up and adjusted up so all works ok
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next was the drivers side drive shaft i still had connected and having trouble getting it out, today decided it was coming out.
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ended up putting the car down on a ramp thing
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(the drive on ones) and using the new handbrake and the wheel un against the jack to stop the car moving, and a large scafold pole
it i still tried going over the wedge but in the end it gave in and came out so happy dayz
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next was clean up and spruce up the engine bay, so cleaned and gave a coat of paint, its not perfect
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( this is to be a used and abused car) but it tidies it up a lot and does the job
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then i realised i have owned the mk1 over a year now!!!!
so dropped it on the floor and gave it a well deserved clean as it was covered it grinding dust welding dust etc etc
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next job maybe one afternoon this week is to get the engine in
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thanks for reading