RickB
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I spent most of the weekend working on the carb - making new gaskets and cleaning the thing up.
Between the leaky gaskets and the jet that was really cruddy with rusty looking growths reminiscent of plaque the poor thing was barely running. Now it's running great again and idles rock steady.
After all that I thought it was high time that Frankie got a new smile. The old grill had been smushed a bit when my niece backed into the car with her VW Jetta. I straightened it a bit and it was serviceable but not very pretty.
My MK1 Parts car had this real nice slatted grille that had years of dirt that needed to be removed, the fasteners holding it on had to be ground off with the angle grinder but once it was free and cleaned up I affixed it to Frankies front and well, here's the before & after:
Before:
After:
Between the leaky gaskets and the jet that was really cruddy with rusty looking growths reminiscent of plaque the poor thing was barely running. Now it's running great again and idles rock steady.
After all that I thought it was high time that Frankie got a new smile. The old grill had been smushed a bit when my niece backed into the car with her VW Jetta. I straightened it a bit and it was serviceable but not very pretty.
My MK1 Parts car had this real nice slatted grille that had years of dirt that needed to be removed, the fasteners holding it on had to be ground off with the angle grinder but once it was free and cleaned up I affixed it to Frankies front and well, here's the before & after:
Before:
After: