coop needs a fixing.this is my new badger that needs quite a bit of work on her, is this anyones old coop? still original turbo and clutch after 120k,, huge part list needed.<moderator> Hint: there's a parts wanted section.


got a electrical issue as the wipers dont work, can bananas spot the problem

Has it been running without an undertray?

I ended up getting my rad support powder coated for longevity and I always use stainless fasteners on non critical bits, again to stop rust being an issue later, but those are the rustiest oil pipes I've seen!

Good luck!

That's a good set of "before" photos.
Are you taking it apart or did it come like that?

Jason - did you buy this from Swansea area by chance?

Hmmm...seems familiar Dan .....lucky escape I think

It was the wheels Jon, and the tidy looking exterior. Not the dogs dinner interior

This is the most expensive car I never bought....
£250 cost of travel to and from Swansea
£250 show in London compensation for the wife for dragging her halfway across the UK for a complete waste of time.
Seeing the photo's of the rust...priceless!

Jason,

I believe this was the car I viewed back in October...it was advertised on PH and after a number of long discussions with the owner about how good the car was...I took the decision to travel from Crawley to buy the car..the plan being to drive it back....

Needless to say I didn't buy the car...not as described has never been so true.....I hope you paid significantly less than it was advertised for...good luck with your project

haha well guys this is interesting.. yes swansea area,, this is the coop that blew its turbo big style all of a sudden after a week of owning it,, rust is pretty shit on the parts shown,, otherwise shell is super,, and yeah got a super price on it,, what was it advertised at on PH top off your head though, haha

oh and im currently taking it apart,, it came running, but blew the turbo badly a week ago skinflint
oh and by the way. Barnacle haha changing one of my words to banana was pretty funny

From memory, I think it was £1500....I didn't expect too much as I was after a rolling restoration.......however when you turn up to buy a car...you at least expect the vendor to be there rather than leaving it with his wife..

...oh and that the car would at least have legal tyres with a decent amount of pressure...and the battery to have some life....when I eventually managed to get it started, it was chucking large amounts of water out of the exhaust and had very little coolant in the expansion tank.

The dash was interesting with the centre console being a lovely sticky mess and the interior smelt of wet dog......apart from that it was ok body wise (shot blasted bonnet excepted - never seen so many stone chips).....and the slam panel...I put my finger through it oh and the rad was leaking .....not quite as described

right. so the parts list to get this badger running again.

all brackets need sanding and metal plating as they are shagged

all belts.
changing it to non aircon for ease of working on it. i am tired of removing the aircon pump everytime i work on my coupes.(like my space) should have bought a diesel golf.
turbo- 360 bearings
radiator-valeo
coolants hoses-viper
boost hoses- fixed 5 leaks before i gave up(including flexi)
lower radiator cross member-primed and good to go
front discs-standard discs
battery tray- mint 6 speed tray with cable brackets
thermostat
temp sensor
water pump
oil cooler pipes- cooler is fine
front bumper-only if its a bargain- steel grey please
both battery terminals- both are mashed
every hose clip i can get to.
new horns


every bolt that i have taken out needs replacing wither because i have had to drill them out or use the moly grips on them. it would be horrible to put any of them back in. including earth connections which were a state.
rust proofing the engine bay.

lots of other bits. cant get the bumper off to get the slam panel off as the phillips screws are rusted well and trully.

New radiator arrived this morning. Thanks ruebs for pointing me in the right direction, its so beautiful.
I'm going to be an even more excited mess when more interesting things start arriving.

That is a fair old project you've taken on! Good luck mate .....

Thanks matey. Good news on your Mot aswell. You have pm

Bumper off today and apart from snapping the lower rad crossmember in half because the bolts are to rusted. All is well.. towers holding both coolers are surprisingly good nick, hopefull next job is engine mounts then get the cambelt changed and scrub that off to do list. Any cleaning tips for scrubbing an engine clean that's had an oil leak?

How did you get the bumper screws off?

I tend to use a pressure washer on thick oil. It just cuts it off to leave shiny paint - very satisfying

Hi..I just got rough with the screws with a pair of water pump pliers, and lots of wd40 to wash rust out as bolts were coming out. There's not a bit of shiny paint on this attrocity lol and everything is very water sensitive right now so can't use a pressure washer.

I use Gunk/Jizor or similar and a variety of stiff brushes. I have a litre bottle of water...the type with a top similar to a washing up liquid bottle....that allows me to direct a restricted jet of water to dilute the cleaner. I wrap any liquid sensitive companents in a plastic freezer bag sealead with a wire twist and cover any area i want to protect with Copious amounts of rags.

With a bit of elbow grease...it works pretty well for me...

Jon

rust treatment started today old lower radiator crossmember
oil leak straight down and filled the intercooler up

Get those wheel arch liners off.

Get yourself some blue steel, cover bare areas or rusty areas and it will never rust again. Amazing stuff.

rust has been removed with good old elbow grease and primed over front right close up
looks ok to me. front left
front right

and thats all i could manage today before i got annoyed and fell asleep. just the top bit has been done. im scared to touch the cooler pillars.
and i still have to drill out the lower rad crossmember bolts. all 4 of them,

spent an hour today just finishing up the corners and sanded down the new lower rad crossmember. then primed and painted it,.
cambelt change is happening on tuesday once i get a day off. and then try and get the new turbo and decent cooler pipes picked up so i can swoon over them.

This is good stuff, keep it up!

you should put this in the projects thread area mate. good work doesnt look to bad after all

Well I have asked the right people and was put off by being recommended to use photobucket to host pics,. However now with new job means I can use a computer all night.,. oh well I don't have a problem it being here, it might get moved now and then I can remove the stupid title of rust bucket.

I have a coupe in with me now thats on the original:-
Radiator
Turbo
Thermostat
CHOD
Clutch
Cambelt

And is on 135K.
I have never seen a cambelt in such poor condition.
But who says they arent reliable
Other than the clutch slipping,the cambelt shredding,the Chod leaking,the turbo smoking,the thermostat sticking open and the radiator leaking all the above are as good as new

Ps did you manage to get the PS pump off?

Hi mate, got the pump off no problem, its just the alloy mount support that I can't still get off

Your battle against the tin beetle is going well, keep it up Zimpy