Mk1 getting some glitter back... by fredybender

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4-25-10

Last friday, I had about 120km on the car, almost worry free, so I decided to go pick up my wiper motor & assembly, at my NY shipping address.
Thats's about a 200km return trip...
Everything was smooth & good; 
As I was about to pass immigration, I was slowly advancing towards the booth, and POOF, heard a sound, and a big puff of smoke!
Pushed the car through immigration, and pushed it to the curb right after the booths...
Good thing I got the gold package CAA (AAA equivalent)
Called up, and had a towing cross the border to pick me up, and crossed back to Canada with the Rocco on a flat bed...

Second towing this week
After getting home saw what went wrong:
The water pump is brand new, Don't remember the MFG, but the pulley shaft is not true, and this happened to the thermostat housing

4-28-10

Yesterday, finally got some more work done;
Replaced my fuel sender
Sychronized my carbs (nobody wanted to touch them around here; the only guy that has enough knowledge on Webers, told me that he could maybe see me around mid-June)
So, I Googled & googled, and found good info, and did it myself...
I noticed that I had set them up, real close to what had to be done!
That was only by sound...
Replaced the defective voltage stabilizer in the cluster, still available from the stealership.
Cut & rewelded my Autotech front stress bar (bought it a while ago, and I was told that it was for a Mk1 Rocco, but that was not the case; fitment was all wrong...) So I had to re-align the aluminum tube accordingly. Having a TIG welder helps...
Painted & installed the B pillar trim
rewired my rad fan.
Installed the front wiper.
A couple of things left: Still waiting on my water pump.
After that the car has almost everything working
Time for some driving! 
But not today... Theres about 8 inches of snow on the ground