Oss på "værste" (garasjen med de rare i)

Mein Gott, det er noen som virkelig har pågangsmot av en annen verden!

Ser jo nå at jeg ikke har så mye å tenke på i forhold til han..

Sandblåser han vekk rusta før han tar på den røde guffa eller..?

Lurer litt etter å ha sett et par av bildene..

Fortsetter litt her så folket har noe å lese til morgenkaffen i morgen...

 

 

today only some small work done, finished the upper part :

 

 

and then primered the rest of the welded areas...

 

 

 

one of my favourite works, putting paint on fresh metal...

 

 

now I will reassemble the steering box and the front suspension, so that the car will roll again, then turn it into the other direction, to start rear quarter panel and axle mounts...

 

hello again, welcome to the weekly update. As the wifes had a coffeine overdose i'll hurry up, plenty of jobs to do in the house... but : today no metalwork, some easy working on mechanical parts; the steering box :

 

 

As the rubber part was broken and the only way to replace it is to remove the steering box from the car (which also includes the removal of the gear box) I was happy, that I already took it off the car. Even if the rubber part would have been ok, I would have replaced it . It is still available as it also fits the Audi 100.

 

 

heres the new one ready to go. I also cleaned , removed rust and painted the metal parts of the box.

 

 

no, this is not a KONI damper, also not a ghostbusters weapon, I just took the chance to add some other colour than black ... done

 

then I removed the dashboard and the windscreen.

 

 

besides of some more rust I also found the traces of an accident the car obviously had :

 

 

something heavy must have fallen into the windscreen, as the panel is bent and I found a lot of glass parts.

 

 

this also explaines the amount of filler I found here. But no problem, this panel is still available and I will just replace it, it is only 34 Euros...

 

 

then I removed some of the sound-deadening and found rust.,....

 

 

and another hole... quite pleased with todays work...

easter update, I had the norwegian TUV inspector in the house today :

 

 

and obviously he found a hole :

 

 

but this problem was solved easily :

 

 

so, as we put one wing on, we had to equalise this so we put another one off :

 

 

today was tool killing day, killed so far:

 

- drill for spot welds

- 2 drills

- chisel

- spray gun

 

 

 

this picture was taken by haakon, it is showing me wearing my chainsaw safety helmet... it is good for the missus , too, when she moans, you have the ear protection 8-)

 

 

love those 1mm grinder discs ....

 

 

et voila....

 

 

2008 is gone....

 

 

better than expected, still some rust....

 

 

Volkswagens idea of rust protection, PU foam

 

after killing that much tools and nearly falling twice over various wires, we decided to finish before anyone gets hurt....

some small work done today, not much ...

 

 

removed the rest of the old quarter panel....

 

 

 

I am keeping all the stuff I am cutting out, so I can clone the car later 8-)

 

 

trial fitting of the new inner arch...

 

 

also clamped the new quarter panel on, if I was already there

 

 

taking off all the parts gave me the necessary route : first fix the rear axle mounting, then the inner arch and then the quarter panel....

 

 

also have to repair the chassis rail, what looked ok from outside came out rotten....

 

 

so then I removed the handbrake cable, the brake lines and the fuel lines.... tomorrow we will change position of the lift on the sill and probably cut out rear axle mount...

 

 

oh, btw, tools killed today :

 

- one more drill

- and the compressor

 

hello again..... nothing happened in the last weeks, but ...:

 

 

 

there is a small review of the project in a german classic car magazine.... though the mag came out a couple of days ago, there is a lot of feedback; some people think I am insane ( ahem...), but I got offered a sparecar, and one of my neighbours in the company has offered me a set of period alloys... for free of course.... ;D I am really far away from putting back wheels on this car, but hey, one day i'll have it finished

Herregud, galskap! Men må være fantastisk morsomt å kunne sånt...

Det er bra det finnes optimister som faktisk får det til

Her var det litt rust ja... Stor respekt til folk som begynner på noe slikt altså!

Da tipper jeg at de aller fleste har fått i seg frokostkaffen og legger da inn litt mer slik at de som drikker ettermiddagskaffe får noe å lese på...

 

was very busy the last weeks (fixing the oil leak on the Van, make a new TÜV on the Scirocco and work, work, work....), but today I had a couple of hours time... time to take the angle grinder :

 

 

 

like a hot knife through butter

 

 

trial fitting of a new panel :

 

 

now I need thicker metal for the lower section, this is/was 1,5mm.... time to buy some new steel (on't be the last time though

 

ah yes, and probably there is a spare car arriving next week (if everything goes as it should); a friend of me bought it for spares, and gives me the rolling shell. Some panels (front panel for example) are in good condition;also i'll have a usable dashboard then and i'll get the car delivered to the door ....

 

 

 

and now the bad news : this is one of approx. 1000 Passat GLI built with the Golf GTI engine.....sad to see this go, but the engine is dead anyway and the shell is almost as rotten as mine....

bad news today: no donor car, the GLI Variant will be restored > But I get the dashboard, so that's fine for me...

 

today I continued working;

 

 

this is the old chassis rail, new metal was cut out ith the grinder, as this is a 2mm metal sheet...

 

 

easy task....

 

 

already in place.... much easier to weld thick metal...

 

 

Primer....

 

 

this is what it looks like from the floor...

 

 

then the outer panel was welded ....

 

 

another panel and some more primer....

 

I have to work out something for the bump stop, I think i'll bolt it onto the axle....

 

 

trial fitting of the inner arch, but first the rear axle mount has to be done.... stay tuned, this will happen next week....

another weekend, another update.

 

To get the quarterpanel on, I have to fix the inner wing, before I can do that, the rear axle mount has to be replaced... so, take the grinder and :

 

 

I have found some 0,8mm grinder discs, wonderful to work with...

 

 

I only had to cut it inside the sill, the part at the floor pan was removed with the hands ...

 

 

still looks frightening :

 

 

trial fitting of the new mount :

 

 

this is what it looks like from the inside :

 

 

so I had to reinforce the sourrounding metal and made a plate to fill the gap in the floor...

 

 

only tacked it in, proper welding will follow...

 

 

next weekend I can hopefully continue....

puh, another (hot) weekend in the workshop; before welding in the rear axle mount, I had to fix this corner :

 

 

this starts at the axle mounts and continues to rust to the front; I will fix the other stuff when the sills are out; otherwise it would be too much to cut out

 

 

the rust next to the new panel is the is the mount for the safety belt, so this has to be done properly (but later...) of course I cut out the old metal, don't want to put new metal on old rusty parts..

 

 

 

then I cleaned it up a bit, the panel I welded in here was zinc plated, so welding was a bit "dirty"....

 

 

then it was time to weld on the mount; though the metal in the back ground looks rusty, it is solid, couldn't poke a hole in it, so that should be ok...

 

 

after grinding down the spots it was time to put some primer on it....

 

 

next week i'll reconstruct the part of the inner sill which is missing here.... then the inner arch and probably the quarter panel can go back ....

 

by the way; this is a pic from a 1994 Passat VR6 :

 

 

mine can't be so bad ?

Syke mann. Det prosjektet der hadde eg lagt på hylla for lenge siden hvertfall. Men bra noen tar det som en utfordring.

Dæven, han har LITT pågangsmot!! Hadde enda slik pågangsmot vært å få kjøpt...

while waiting for the teabags to arrive, I continued welding :

 

 

 

removed some more rusty metal :

 

 

made a cardboard template and back in :

 

 

et voila :

 

 

trial fitted the inner arch, too big of course (i didn't want to put the full panel in) so I had to cut it down :

 

 

now it fits ...

 

 

now welding here is most fun, because you have good access, no more rotten (thin) metal , this is how I really enjoy :

 

 

welded from the outside and inside...

 

 

and finally grinded down the spots...

 

 

and put some primer on :

 

 

this was the result of 2 hours on saturday and 3 today... next weekend, when most of you are at the gathering, i'll bring the spot welder from the company and put the new quarter panel on....

ok, another sunny day outside and me inside the workshop.... now, after meeting Dave in Lobbach and really enjoying his tea ( as most germans, I drink coffee like hell but no tea) he has sent me a parcel :

 

 

thanks a lot mate, it really tastes good.... and it contains "antioxidants", so probably I won't rust anymore...

 

back to business, grabbed some heavy tools in the comany today :

 

 

the spot welder, not in use anymore, as Renaults stopped rusting in the 90s...

 

 

the tank straps are from an Espace, i'll try them on, as the ones from the Passat have transformed to dust... it could be, that they are too small, but I just make them longer...

 

 

trial fitment of the new quarter panel; looks ok, but still some work needed, before I can start welding.... i'll do that tomorrow...

 

 

off topic, but new to the fleet :

 

 

a very early Jetta Mk.I, from the VIN it is a 1980 model.... it gets a service and will stay over the winter here, it belongs to a friend of me. No mods planned unfortunately

today I found out, that my electrical system in the workshop doesn't like spotwelders ok, we'll change that for the sills, the quarter panel was welded in the old fashioned way.... but before that, I had to trial fit the door, as VW obviously changed the doors each year .... that means, I have the wrong quarter panel, as the door shut is different....

 

 

but I managed to modify the panel :

 

 

ok, that is probably not the way I want to work, but when it is painted, no-one will see....

 

 

then everything under the quarter panel was sealed, there is no way to do this afterwards....

 

 

after welding the panel to the car the seams were grinded down...

 

 

looks so nice, once it is cleaned....

 

 

Prime®-Time !

 

 

 

so, not much left to do on this side of the car , so I am really happy about the result....

 

 

 

 

so there is only one small panel and the mounting point for the bump stop to eld, then the right side is finished.... then we are going to the left side and after that the rear axle comes back in again.....

Stakkars mann... Her var det mye rust.

Stakkars mann... Her var det mye rust.

 

Andreas han kommer hit til sommeren, kan ikke du fyre opp seilbåten og ta dem (oss) med på tur, jeg kan være motvekt eller ballast...

 

Fikk forresten en hyggelig pakke i posten fra en i England som arva den gamle skjermen som stod på Passaten min... Te, Sjokolade og 50 euro for skjermen...

 

 

Også fikk jeg dette fra FFFE (foreningen for flere einsere) idag...

 

Nei nei nei...... Også den rosa dah!!

 

Trivelig pakke du fikk fra UK, H-Con!

Før jeg fortsetter med prosjektet til Jürgen, så legger jeg ut litt om hvilke andre biler han har...

 

 

Hello everybody.... Hakon forced ahem invited me to have a look at the best norwegian website

 

some of you might recognise my location, as this is Hakons headquarter in germany, a couple of my rides here :

 

 

This is a 1978 Passat Variant, called "Pandora" after the famous, never to-open Pandoras box. Indeed it turned out to be a can of worms, i'll post some inbetween pics later, this is the worst car ever to be restored, and no.one who is mentially sane, would have started on this car. I did

 

 

This is "Paula", i have it for a couple of years, a 1988 wbx Type 25.... the best car i have ever had so far, loads of fun, currently off the road, waiting for spring.... it's got new paint last year, since then it is not used in winter anymore...

 

 

Then we have a 1971 VW 1600 TL, no name yet, project is on hold at the moment, as the Passat needs all the welding attention at the moment, this is more a long term project. I have a vision of an early 90s, yellow painted cal-look style... let's see, what happens....

 

 

this is the latest addition to the fleet; a 1987 Passat Variant, this will be our car for our holidays in norway... an important feature for the hot summer nights in norway : the air-condition

 

 

another 1987 Passat, special edition called "Trophy"... i got the car for free, it had a broken auto box, other than that it is in fantastic condition and has no rust...

 

 

ok, another Passat; a 1984 special edition called "Topic", in not so bad condition, i have this car since 2002 and it is a keeper. Since then its in storage, gonna dig it out sometime in the future....

 

 

ok, another VW, it's a rust free Jetta Mk.I, it as for free, came without engine and is currently on hold, too. I have a Scirocco fuel injected engine (95BHP) including power steering and 5speed box waiting to go in.... it also has no interior, but that is not really necessary. A seat and a steering wheel will do for the beginning

 

 

last but not least, my second ever car, in the family since 1981, and they will have to put it in my grave one day....

 

 

i forgot the daily driver, a 2008 Megane CC, "hairdressers car", it is new, it has warranty, i don't have to repair it....

Andreas han kommer hit til sommeren, kan ikke du fyre opp seilbåten og ta dem (oss) med på tur, jeg kan være motvekt eller ballast...

 

 

 

I will;) Bare finne en dag med pent vær. Nå fikk du meg jammen til å savne sol og sommer....

Ååååå sommer, ikke lenge igjen. Bye bye til salthelvete og velkommen tørre fine veier. Endelig kan en vaske bilen igjen uten at den ser ut som et helvete samme dag.

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