What did you do to your 2002 today !

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19 minutes ago, jp5Touring said:

I wired my H&R springs in the front. Thought this was a odd or a bad fit. Guessing this is normal ?

Pretty exhaustive review of the various threads suggests that a fair number of folks with shorter springs have the issue.  The two ways to deal with it are wire and clamps.  Have only seen photos of wired solutions, but as I say above clamps appear to give adequate clearance.  We’ll see.

[Vince2002]

Installed new coil, wires, and plugs. With a can of Ether it started up after sitting in a field for more than 10 years. Exciting Cool gave me Hope

Edited January 7, 2021 by Vince2002

[dang]

I moved my next project to my shop.  '73 tii Golf/Black.

 

 

[TE2002]

Tested out my new Gopro and thought what better way then to test it with the 2002.

 

[FunElan]

Dude that thing sounds like a straight up racecar compared to mine. Engine specs?

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On 1/6/2021 at 10:31 PM, '76mintgrün'02 said:

I'm not sure there is room for that hose clamp between the inner fender and the spring cap.

 

People usually use wire.

If I did what people usually do I wouldn’t have all these scars I like to brag about.  So I have reinstalled the driver’s side assembly now, and at full right turn I can get one finger over the top of the clamp and two in front of it before I contact fender metal.  Given that the strut is fixed laterally and vertically in place, I have pretty good confidence in the solution.

['76mintgrün'02]

Good deal.  Thanks for the follow up and a photo to prove it.  

 

Sorry for casting doubt on your solution.  I haven't secured mine yet.  I just make sure they're aligned before setting it back down.  Usually.

 

Tom

[TE2002]

4 hours ago, FunElan said:

Dude that thing sounds like a straight up racecar compared to mine. Engine specs?

Thanks man! 
it’s stock internals ive just put the usual bolt on.
 https://www.instagram.com/p/CJxAzkOlY-w/?igshid=1dz51c5dp17sv

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3 hours ago, '76mintgrün'02 said:

Good deal.  Thanks for the follow up and a photo to prove it.  

 

Sorry for casting doubt on your solution.  I haven't secured mine yet.  I just make sure they're aligned before setting it back down.  Usually.

 

Tom

Don’t be.  Just keep your fingers crossed for me.  Oh yeah, and I secured the bottom spring pads with Gorilla tape.  Don’t tell anyone on the faq.?

[BarneyT]

I’ve been making Steady progress on Ceylon 72tii better part of last three week cutting out / fitting / welding in repair panels, working to a February 15 date / deadline to have it to paint shop...

[Steve Tochi]

Amazing Work!  I want to be Barney when I grow up.

[uai]

Thought about and made a test replacing the parking light bulb with a LED and pulsing it at 40 Hz with a duty cycle of 75% to make it a little bit annoying like the DRL of the Mercedes W212. Finally decided upon leaving everything as it is and went back to good old tungsten.

[jp5Touring]

2 hours ago, Steve Tochi said:

Amazing Work!  I want to be Barney when I grow up.

 

Thinking the same thing, also thinking his wife must be a saint.  ?

[xavier296]

Changed front main seal. The one in there was hard as a rock and leaking. Crumbled when I pulled it out.

Installed modern underhood AC components. And cleaned. Always more underbody cleaning to do.

 

[tashakes]

Replaced the tie rods finally. I had replaced one that I broke when I replaced the center linkage and had the other 3 sitting since pre-COVID.  Very rewarding update

 

I also adjusted the shifter platform (again) and found that one of the clips was missing from the shifter rod. Luckily I had some extra ones and even more luckily I was able to find them!!