Open Heart Surgery on the Polo
Sorry for the delay in updating the blog just been so busy!
Anyway last Saturday was the big day for the engine coming out. After spending an hour rebuilding the front of the Passat, Mark had installed new headlights and it was a bigger job than it looked. Then we got the engine hoist delivered and moved on to the Polo.
It took us about an hour and a half to disconect all the pipeing and linkages to the engine but once this was done and the manifold was dropped out the bottom of the car, the engine lifted out with ease. Now thats in storage ready to be stripped cleaned painted and polished ready to go back in once the cars been repainted.
Now we can start cutting sanding and smoothing the engine bay. So were on the final push on the prep work we recon its going to be mid January that the polo can have the weilding done.
On the plus side Dav at PureKLAS is taking the Polo’s allys away to be stripped and polished cant wait to see them finished!
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It’s Alive! the MK1 Polo runs!
The little 1.1 engine in the Polo works after putting in some fresh fuel and pumping it through it started second time! All we had to was clean the dizzy to get it to fire and it ran really sweetly no splutters no power surges or dips just smooth.
So now we need to sort out an engine hoist to lift it out so that we can clean paint and polish the little power plant. We can get into the engine bay as well then to begin cutting and smoothing.
Due to the weather we couldn’t start the sanding this week although we do have the generator now ready. So while Mark helped our next door neighbour tune his 1303 Beetle i broke down our split rim wheels ready to be paint stripped and to go off to the polishers. I’ve also got to contact Image Wheels about the possibility of having some new barrels made for a couple of the wheels.
The weather looks good for this weekend so paint stripping and sanding will begin in earnest!
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