The All New, New "What have you done to your Bay today" thread.

That cog thing are you going poke a Lolly stick into it with a clothes peg ?

 

Check the filler hose and breathers on the fuel tank while you've got the engine out?

 

I went to crack the passenger window, as the cab was a bit steamed up. The window stayed up, the regulator came down. At least I knew what it was this time.

Door card off, I nipped the glass holder a little in the vice, and sprayed some more silicone in the window runner channels. It was a bit of a mare to get the glass back in the holder again but it’s all back together and working.

I also found a rubber boot to go over the handbrake lever where it goes through the cab floor, and fitted it. Hopefully no more cold draught from there, we could see the road going by underneath us.

 

If you've got a later Bay, the boot with the handbrake adjuster bulges on the side) won't fit . VW deleted it. Late ones seal the gap with the tight floormat and strips of foam (likely long gone) around the handbrake hole.

 

You can live without the full flow. It's good as it preserves your bearings, but unless the person doing it can tap straight, likely to go a bit pear-shaped.

 

It will fit, I've got one on my 74.

 

Won't on a '78 without chopping the floormat up.

 

’77 must be the cut-off year, mine doesn’t have the adjusters on the lever and the boot fits just fine. I thought all years were the same and had to look at the parts list to see the difference.

 

I thought you could buy pre fabricated shrouds to take the type four cooler nowadays.

 

And a video of you wiggling your bum whilst leaning in the engine bay revving the engine when it goes back in

 

Do we want to see Steve wiggling his bum ?

 

Only if he’s had his engine out and back in again

 

Has your stock floormat got a thin slot in it that goes around the lever?

 

I thought so but was questioning my memory for a bit then.

 

The stock floormat was chucked out more than 10 years ago. Madmatz carpet in there now.