he hee ! i fitted up on e of the jetta/golf courtesy lights i won on ebay. the fitting and moulding of the plastic is the same as t25 ones (though it’s opaque not clear plastic) with blob of circuitry on the back. wire the lights into the existing permanent live, the existing switched earth…

after a half a week of being out of it with flu i headed over to bristol volksfest on saturday and met up with pete and maria and ben and jeff and kirst and captain selecta…. all very pleasant just sitting in the sun, watching the day go past… i did some pottering about on…

got the springs changed for some lovely new 60mm drop ones form Avo, care of cowboy baxter at brickwerks and got them all bolted up. the ride is SOOOOOO much better, the dodgy springs on the back of the wedge had come from something car like, they were actually longer than standard but made of…

doh ! while looking for other docuyments i found the mot of the devon double slider… i didnt knoe it was still in mot… so tax & insured in the aftern and off round bristol for a jaunt 🙂 it needs a new throttle cable (won on ebay last week, just waiting for delivery) and…

leave croyde bay early and say goodbye to the sun drencheed morning and motor across to the haynes motor museum near yeovil for VanWest 2006 ! i found the place without too much hassle and was directed into an overflow carpark/field where i had a sudden realisation. the jetta is low. lowered and stuffed full…

friday night and off to the beach… jim and nicole and capt. botch arrive… jim has brought me an m8 x 1.25 helicoil kit ! joy ! beach and new tools ! there is a santa claus.. 🙂

popped round to thomas’ in the evening. he’d swapped the head on his golf syncro for a gti heat and fixed some other things but the timing was out so i dragged over the strobe gun to set it up…. … it’s almost impossible to see the pulleywheel on a golf if you’re used to…

i decided that i need to buy a helicoil kit… i don’t like the bodge on the engine and i know it will fail, probably on the way to the mot test or somewhere else important…. i’d never really looked at how a helicoil worked before – it was just one of those things that…

after three days of intense spannering on the new wedgee of doom the random 1.9dg motor is in, pipe up, fueled up and wired up. in the end i ripped off the original ignition system – its pants – and replaced it with the MSD system (its kevos and on some kind of loan .i…

well, what a productive afternoon, after the brief frustration of not being able to get the engine case back yesterday i think things are much better… though i am wiped out… i decided last night that i would have a hack at the 1.9dg motor that was sat in the back of the bus, its…