VW 182

taken today, as pictured is how the car will be sold

9 months MOT – Road Tax to 8/2011

Owned this car for over 2 years, well maintained:

New battery
Duck boards made
New brake pads front and rear
New rear wheel cylinders
New gearbox mounts
Gearbox oil changed
New lowered bug pack front shocks
3 point belts added to front
Single 3 point seatbelt added in the back for a child seat
4 new ball joints on the lowered front beam

New Bosch Blue Coil
New Carb
New Generator
New Distributor

Now has:
1500 Sinlge Port
Brand new Empi GT exhaust

£5900

9 months MOT – Road Tax to 8/2011

Owned this car for over 2 years, well maintained:

New battery
Duck boards made
New brake pads front and rear
New rear wheel cylinders
New gearbox mounts
Gearbox oil changed
New lowered bug pack front shocks
3 point belts added to front
Single 3 point seatbelt added in the back for a child seat
4 new ball joints on the lowered front beam

New Bosch Blue Coil
New Carb
New Generator
New Distributor

Now has:
1500 Sinlge Port
Brand new Empi GT exhaust

£5900

After fun and games the trekker finally gets an MOT today, after a fail on the beam roller bearings, only to find the reason they failed was that it has NO inner bearings!!!! – no wonder it had play in it!

Just in time to leave for the Volksworld Show tomorrow…

Nothing like cutting it fine

Can you spot the new toy fitted to the engine?

Hopefully try to put the motor back in tonight

Started to find when I was driving the car hard the engine and box would move, so looked into it and found gear box mounts needed a little attention to say the least!

So out with the engine:

Trekker Engine out

Was a bit tight getting it out!

And the reason for the movement!

Think its time they were replaced so did the lot!

well its been far to long since I updated the blog

winter is nearly here so will get on with a load of new jobs now the car will be off the road till next year now….

The last job I did was to fit a rear 3 point belt in the back of the trekker so I can take my daughter out with me, heres a load of photos to show how I did it

I bought some seat belt plates off ebay that have the seat belt nut welded to a spreader plate, I fixed one under the wing and bolted through to mount the reel.

The next bit was fun!!!

I took the rear roof off as I was using a cutting tool to cut a flap in the box section so I could fold the metal down, slide a spreader plate in and then fold the flap back, I didnt bother welding back up as I thought you never see it and if I needed to paint it wasnt worth the hassel. Then bolted the top of the belt through onto that plate and it was pretty much sorted. I then fitted the clasp to the normal lapbelt hole and we were done, fairly easy job and very strong. Not been for a mot yet but dont think it will be an issue.

Been meaning to do it for a while now so finally pulled my finger out and did some wire house keeping on the weekend.

Also while I was there changed the fuel filter

Been pondering what to do on my floor for sometime, wanted to do carpet but reckon it would get trashed, so opted for Duck boards

Fronts all complete just need to screw the backs together now

That dreaded time again – MOT

Had an advisory last year on one of the front ball joints, so thought for the sake of it, change all four while I was doing one!

Took the shocks off to find they had seen better days so bought these today:

Also found that the shocks that were on there were stock height and since removing them the car had gone lower!

Bonus…

Also found the beam had no grease nipples so fitting those today also.

Then off for a ticket to see what other surprises are lurking

got some old resto shots form the guy who built my car