Another Nice Day

[julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@menloparkrandd.com)]

I "would" have worked on a Rocc, but the parts (from 20 miles away) never arrived and it rained all day. I did have the rubber from the snowflakes removed for clean and repair....
I did wear a Scirocco T shirt though.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca]
>Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 07:37 PM
>To: ' Brian Wagner '
>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Another Nice Day
>
>Well there you go, that was a good list of things done. (where did you get
>a rad comb? Seriously, I'd like one) Mine wasn't a big list, but time
>consuming. A cosmetic mod for my 79 ate the main part of the day (prtty
>sure you'll notice it at Cincy), and even though it was a Sunday, I managed
>to get a few cool obscure parts heading my way. Including some new centre
>caps for my Borbets. I was short two. I still have a lot of stuff to do on
>my car, but hopefully it'll get there. Time will tell eh? But yeah, overall
>I'd say it was a productive weekend. Too muddy for Rocco driving though.
>Cathy
>
>On 7:25 pm 03/25/07 "Brian Wagner" <dagnamit@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As I sit on the back porch enjoying a cool overcast evening, I think
>> of all the little things I have done to the new car.
>>
>> Today it was the day to clean all the parts needed for the
>> re-installation of the ac.
>>
>> 1) Combed the condenser fins and removed all the old paint
>> 2) Pressure cleaned the exterior of the condenser
>> 3) soaked and purged the condenser of what ever was in there
>> 4) Cleaned all attachment hardware
>> 5) Ran a tap in all bolt holes to ensure a clean install
>> 6) scrubbed the WI road grime from the compressor and verified it work
>> 7) lubed and installed new clutch cable and hardware
>> 8) installed new ebrake cable
>> (ok last 2 aren't anything to do with the ac
>>
>> needed items
>>
>> 1) upper steering column bushing
>> 2) shifter bushing
>> 3) rear hatch key seal
>> 4) new radio
>> 5) new seat slider bushings both sides
>> 6) ac drier
>> 7) ac orings
>> 8) misc bolts and hardware
>> 9) passenger side halfshaft (I got it just need to put it in)
>> 10) all the vacuum line (easy to do and cheap fun afternoon)
>> 11) new tires all the way around, it PO did a plus one on the tire in
>> 15" rims
>> 12) MKIII moonroof glass (yeah I think I am going to try this)
>> 13) rear transmount (ATS gave me new PS DS and bell)
>> 14) remove any of the PO wiring debauchery and clean up the loom
>> 15) clean the piss out of the engine bay
>> 16) shocks, struts, mounts and bushing
>> 17) flush and fill radiator ( doing that anyway because of the ac
>> re-install)
>> 18) new injector seals
>>
>> oh and whatever items I can think of.
>>
>> I am thinking at this pace I should have it streetable by the end of
>> April, that should give me a month to fine tune and hopefully get it
>> ready for Cincy. Regardless of its road worthiness I will be there
>> this year even if it is in a rental Kia. Hmmm what a great day the
>> wife made Kabobs and the kid made French Bread and I sit here with
>> orange finger nails from clean parts with purple power. It doesn't
>> get any better than this.
>>
>> Brian
>> _______________________________________________
>> Scirocco-l mailing list
>> Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>> http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Scirocco-l mailing list
>Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l
>