Fitting the rear arms wasnt so bad. Getting everything to line up was probably the hardest bit. New Bilstein B14 shocks and springs here, new hubs, bearings, speed sensors, spring tops and bottoms, brake lines, droplinks, brackets and bushes all round!
»The near-side post cat oxygen sensor snapped when I was removing it from the original cat, so I needed to replace this one. That was impressively expensive. The exhaust now consists of Lucifer high-flow manifolds, sports cats and non-resonated mid pipe and a Milltek backbox. The backbox will probably get replaced since it’s past its best now.
»Fitting the new Bilstein B14’s on the front was really straight forward. New OEM top mount bushes and bearings were used as well. The hub had new wheel bearings, speed sensors and hubs. All genuine VW of course!
»This was a total pain. The old dogbone bushes were so bad that the engine was around 2 inches too far back in order to get the dogbone with new poly bushes in. It took me quite some time to get the bolt holes to line up to refit this!
»After fitting new bushes to the rear diff cradle, and then fitting the Powerflex bushes to the control arms, it was time to refit the rear differential. This was fairly straight forward, but was a bit fiddly due to the size and weight when you’re on your own!
»Went to fit some new spark plugs since I haven’t replaced them since I purchased the car in November 2019. I’ve only driven 1000 miles in the car since I’ve owned it, so when it gets back on the road, everything will be nice and fresh!
»More parts arrived this week.
»I managed to get some time today to fit the Lucifer high flow manifolds. These went on pretty easily, just a little fiddly when you’re on your own! More pictures to come when it stops raining! I also renewed the following parts whilst I was here:
»More parts arrived this week.
»Because all of the brake lines from the ABS pump to the callipers broke when disconnecting them, I had to go and replace them all.
»Had a good run today. Managed to replace both front hard brake lines and the rear passenger brake line which runs to the ABS pump.
»The parts arrived back from the powder coaters. They came out really well I think, considering they’re all old parts!
»Waiting for my powder coating to come back, I proceeded to start with the exhaust manifolds. In order to do this, the intake manifold must be removed. This took a while to do as it is quite fiddly.
»All the parts were stripped off the car. All bushes, bearings and hardware were off the car. I sent the items off to be powder coated. Since we’re in another lockdown, they’ll probably take some time.
»Most of the stuff I ordered for the rear of the car, as well as the front discs arrived.
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