The usual ranting-long

[scirocco at vintagewatercooleds.com (Eric S)]

Cathy....my long lost sister...silly thing is, we both have TDIs as the
only behaving vehicle.

Drove the Corrado TDI home from the body shop today...mmmm, I missed that
car!  Yes, it will be at cincy.

http://www.vintagewatercooleds.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Corrado

So...my tally?

91 Jetta GL gasser...bought to get us around till the Corrado was
fixed...runs and drives, needs a bunch of crap (suspension, shifter
alignment, *belts*, etc).  Not gonna fix it...sell as soon as possible

81 Rabbit Truck 2.0 16v: puking oil out the headgasket at the back of the
block, and has coolant leaks everywhere...loverly.

81 Rabbit Truck Diesel: needs reassembly, interior, windshield, wheel
bearings, radiator, shifter bushings/alignment, etc etc

79 Iltis, got a "move it or loose it" warning on it from the cops, I have
1 week to make it run.  Needs *2* batteries (24 volt system), coolant
leaks, rear diff leak, rear wheel cyl.  Loverly x2

91 Cabby and 81 Rocco: unfinsihed projects that need everything...have
languished so long, I forgot where I was.

90 Corrado TDI: Waiting on euro light from Dirk, needs reassembly of
interior...but damn that bitch is sexy, and runs like a top!

7 cars, 3 run, ALL HAVE ISSUES :-(

-- 
Eric
www.vintagewatercooleds.com

79 VW Iltis
81 Rabbit Truck 2.0 16v
81 Scirocco S (TDI Swap project)
90 Corrado TDI
91 Cabriolet (2.0 Crossflow swap project)

C Boyko said:
> Okay, just to get it out of my system...I'm going to buy a Cavalier.
>
> SO I have this gorgeous, gorgeous new white 88 Cabby (for my daughter).
> (BTW, it's built by Karmann, so it counts as a Scirocco) It was making
> some
> belt noise at Daun's, but I was too sick to look at it, and it only did it
> a
> few times for a short period at start up. Plus the car hadn't been driven
> a
> lot, so I figured it was tired from sitting. (I should have known better,
> this is exactly what my son's belt throwing POS Jetta does, he's on belt
> #12
> this winter) The car got home (8 1/2 hours) with no issues. So my daughter
> goes out to a movie with friends, I get a call from about 5 minutes away,
> and it's got a battery light, so I tell her to limp it home and get ready
> to
> head out with a fully charged battery, but it wasn't needed. But the car
> had
> thrown the belt.
>
> No problemo, says I, I'll get my nephew, the "belt expert" to come over
> and
> help me get it all tensioned right. (Both he and my son have been blessed
> with the "belts from hell" cars, yes, the NA diesels with air...who puts
> air
> in a NA diesel?) SO next morning, into town (1/2 hr round trip) to get the
> missing belt, and miraculously, they actually gave me the rignt one.
>
> So we get into the belt replacement, and by the time we're at the point we
> can thread the belt in, the PS/AC/and alternator are pretty well off. Oh
> yes, this car has air. WHO HAS AIR IN A CABBY??? But then it's wait till
> the
> morning, may as well do all three belts. Another trip to town. And clean
> up
> rusty bolts and such. Fine, except I'm heading out for an exam, and the
> only
> night my nephew has free is that same night. SO he says he'll toss it
> together without me. MISTAKE! I come home, and there is a bunch of
> bent/broken shit to replace. Off to the dealer this morning, ( 45 minutes
> round trip) and they can get the parts by Tuesday. Wonderful.
>
> While I'm there, may as well get new lower suspension bolts for Klaus,
> they
> do alignments, they are a VW dealer, they fit every A1 in the civilised
> world, so surely they should have those. NOPE! Tuesday.
>
> So there you have it, now you know why it takes me freaking forever to do
> anything.
>
> SO the tallly in the Wind Tunnel at the moment?
> Ford - dead charging system
> Headache- due to plot something at any given moment
> 1980 - runs but too rotten to jack up
> Klaus- IRS ( invisible rear susension) -that'll be fixed once I' get off
> the
> computer.
> Cabby- no alternator, and so many bolts loose it may never run again, but
> I'm still thrilled with it!
>
> I'm keeping the bug as far from those A1s as is possible, I don't need it
> getting any ideas.
>
> But I love them all...remind me why again?
>
> Cathy (looking for a Cavvy when I get the chance...)
>
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