My Coupe project

[Tractor Dave]

Everything gone to the sandblasting place.



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[Bowie69]

I can't see any major rust underneath which is always a bonus.

Take the rear heatshield down from above the back box, there will likely be some to repair, or at the very least treat.

[jp_paul]

Indeed. Mine came out with some gentle persuasion. As mentioned on the other thread, the arm is plastic so heat can't be used - once I'd for the circlip off, I grabbed the pin with some mini mole grips to rotate it and break the corrosion induced seal, then pressed it up and out with pipe grip pliers.

[Tractor Dave]

It seems a few of us are at this stage and all having the same issues.


I got the little circlip off but the pin is solid.


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[Tractor Dave]

I hope you don't plan to sand blast the speakers

I was waiting for that

[jp_paul]

Thanks for the link. Santa gave me some money for Christmas so I just ordered one with it

That was an easy sell
I bought a bag of 0.5-1.25mm glass grit for media; apparently lasts longer and doesn't clog like alu-oxide, and is much cheaper. Not had chance to fire it up yet though - had inner cv's to do on the Passat which was an unwelcome distraction!

[SteveH]

I hope you don't plan to sand blast the speakers

[Tractor Dave]

You're just slightly ahead of me! Can't wait to start using the Xmas present to myself - a blast cabinet .
Can't fit the subframe in it though

Thanks for the link. Santa gave me some money for Christmas so I just ordered one with it

[John.]

Now that's very interesting. I'm M10 rear M12 front mind.

The shorter of the bushes I could only get in M12 (standard rubber I'm talking about, not poly) so I'm using a sleeve with the M10 bolt.

[jp_paul]

You're just slightly ahead of me! Can't wait to start using the Xmas present to myself - a blast cabinet .
Can't fit the subframe in it though

[Tractor Dave]

Rear struts came out no problem.
Would have been a different story without my home made tool. The shocks were original Boge and one was still working. Amazing!


I now have a rather large pile of stuff to take for sand blasting.



I made a start on the ball joints. I wish all metal was this rust resistant.



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[jp_paul]

Great, ta again!
and I’ve just found heritage have them listed on fleabay too so won’t have to bear their £5 p&p costs anyway (I can never work out how vendors sell stuff cheaper on fleabay than on their own websites - it’s not like they don’t take a cut )

[Tractor Dave]

Smashing, ta. Were the ones you got tapered? I’ve found some but for a few quid less but a different part number is quoted: 012301127F vs ..127VF from heritage. Wondering if the taper is the difference between them.

That's one above is what I've used. Seals nicely and perfect fit

[jp_paul]

Smashing, ta. Were the ones you got tapered? I’ve found some but for a few quid less but a different part number is quoted: 012301127F vs ..127VF from heritage. Wondering if the taper is the difference between them.

[steve briance]

I wanted to change drain and fill and got a couple from here:

https://www.heritagepartscentre.com/...ling-plug.html

Im sure other sources are available with a bit of searching