Hey guys, well I got to work doing the water pump and belts yesterday! My god what a pain in the f*cking ! First problem I got to was taking the crank pulley off, undone all the nuts alright but when I came to remove it from the engine bay, there wasn't enough room to lift it out! In the end I had to remove the engine mount bolt and push the engine over with a crowbar, doesnt mention that in the jokebook (Haynes manual) lol!
Next up was the timing cover backplate couldn't maneuver it out for shiz! In the end it broke a little bit although still useable ended up hacksawing it in half for when I put it back on!
So I finally got that out the way and it's time to pull the water pump out Could I move it? Could I boat! it was absolutely welded in! Tried to shock it with a screwdriver and hammer, all that did was broke it away. In the end I just had to be brutal with the thing and literally smash it out!
You can see all the bits where the bolt go through have all smashed off, what a pain! Anyway got it out.
So started putting it all back together putting the cambelt on was an absolute nightmare! I'd got the water pump set to the slackest point so I thought!The cam belt was tight as hell to get on! got it all on anyhow, started her up and the water pumps making a terrible whining sound like its a supercharger (i wish lol). It was getting dark by this point so ended up just packing up for the night and having a look tomorrow. While I was chilling I was having a think about the water pump adjustment and dickhead me had been thinking about it all the wrong way! I'd actually stuck the cambelt on with the waterpump at it's tightest setting. What a complete and utter knob!
So first things first went to Halfords with my dad in his car this morning and picked me up a nice halfords 1/4" ratchet and a deep 1/4" socket set so I can get the bottom water pump bolt! As with all the timing cover plastics on I hadn't got anything that could reach the bottom bolt! (Ideally needed these in my toolbox anyway tbf!)
Got back and backed off the tension on the waterpump and all was good, the noise had stopped engine was idling better and I was happy
Next I went to pick up a new rear silencer section from one of the Polo club members breaking a Saloon! The tailpipes longer than a coupe/bready but that will hopefully aid with my plan to bend it upwards and have an upwards facing tailpipe. Heres a pic to see how much excess i've got to play with to try and achieve what i'm after
Will look at getting this on once i've got my original rear bumper on to determine where it needs to be bent.
So once we got back, my gf (the great gf she is) decided to get the hoover out and have a bit of a spring clean on the interior! She hoovered up and gave the dash a damn good scrub and it looked so much better to before which i'm really thankful for!
At some point we're gonna get the carpet cleaner in there and do the seats and the carpet etc. Also wanna get me a pair of mats!
With Suze starting to clean up inside it gave me the motivation to start removing that horrible glue residue from where tints had been on the back windows! Eased it all up using thinners and then scrubbing it all off with soapy water and a nail brush. Was a right ballache but it was seriously worth the elbow grease in the end!
^^Was like that across the whole windows
All nice n clean
Also this morning I won myself a set of wheels on ebay which i'm hopefully going to be collecting one of the evenings this week Nice n local too! It's a set of teardrops
Not entirely sure just yet how i'm going to do them. Did a quick photoshop with keeping them silver and doing the teardrops red. If you guys have any ideas, let me know
Next up was the timing cover backplate couldn't maneuver it out for shiz! In the end it broke a little bit although still useable ended up hacksawing it in half for when I put it back on!
So I finally got that out the way and it's time to pull the water pump out Could I move it? Could I boat! it was absolutely welded in! Tried to shock it with a screwdriver and hammer, all that did was broke it away. In the end I just had to be brutal with the thing and literally smash it out!
You can see all the bits where the bolt go through have all smashed off, what a pain! Anyway got it out.
So started putting it all back together putting the cambelt on was an absolute nightmare! I'd got the water pump set to the slackest point so I thought!The cam belt was tight as hell to get on! got it all on anyhow, started her up and the water pumps making a terrible whining sound like its a supercharger (i wish lol). It was getting dark by this point so ended up just packing up for the night and having a look tomorrow. While I was chilling I was having a think about the water pump adjustment and dickhead me had been thinking about it all the wrong way! I'd actually stuck the cambelt on with the waterpump at it's tightest setting. What a complete and utter knob!
So first things first went to Halfords with my dad in his car this morning and picked me up a nice halfords 1/4" ratchet and a deep 1/4" socket set so I can get the bottom water pump bolt! As with all the timing cover plastics on I hadn't got anything that could reach the bottom bolt! (Ideally needed these in my toolbox anyway tbf!)
Got back and backed off the tension on the waterpump and all was good, the noise had stopped engine was idling better and I was happy
Next I went to pick up a new rear silencer section from one of the Polo club members breaking a Saloon! The tailpipes longer than a coupe/bready but that will hopefully aid with my plan to bend it upwards and have an upwards facing tailpipe. Heres a pic to see how much excess i've got to play with to try and achieve what i'm after
Will look at getting this on once i've got my original rear bumper on to determine where it needs to be bent.
So once we got back, my gf (the great gf she is) decided to get the hoover out and have a bit of a spring clean on the interior! She hoovered up and gave the dash a damn good scrub and it looked so much better to before which i'm really thankful for!
At some point we're gonna get the carpet cleaner in there and do the seats and the carpet etc. Also wanna get me a pair of mats!
With Suze starting to clean up inside it gave me the motivation to start removing that horrible glue residue from where tints had been on the back windows! Eased it all up using thinners and then scrubbing it all off with soapy water and a nail brush. Was a right ballache but it was seriously worth the elbow grease in the end!
^^Was like that across the whole windows
All nice n clean
Also this morning I won myself a set of wheels on ebay which i'm hopefully going to be collecting one of the evenings this week Nice n local too! It's a set of teardrops
Not entirely sure just yet how i'm going to do them. Did a quick photoshop with keeping them silver and doing the teardrops red. If you guys have any ideas, let me know