Have been busy buying a house recently, so have been trying to thin down my stock of various Polo related parts, spent a little time on the G40 last week, fitting nylon TCA bushes, ARB Blocks, and one of our stage 2 frames (installation guide to follow).
Will write up a guide to stage 2 fitting, in the meantime I leave you with pictures of what was on it, and what’s on it now...
What came off, quite frankly dangerous- new owner is welding fresh metal in on these thank god:
And its replacement, much better:
Took a few hours to fit (although I'v done a few now) and no drilling of any holes required, which means the repair work on the chassis was probably done for strength, not post accident damage, but I'll never know. All good now and ready for lots of road miles.
Whilst I had the TCAs out I decided to regrease and clean them, fairly simple job and should mean they last a little longer:
Take one crud filled TCA:
Clean and apply moly-coat grease:
Refit cleaned boot and clips:
Can see some of the chassis work here:
Welding looks acceptable, been stone chipped in the past so no signs of rusting, I'm going to spray it and leave, I'm happy with chassis strength now there's a decent subframe fitted.
Got some pistons on their way from Terry, so will be building a stock (ish) 1272cc motor for it, with a G40 lader on 65mm pulley once Pete's built it back up, and an ATV box, should be restored to its former glory and hopefully 130bhp or so.
Cheers
Pete