Sunroof Drains

 On the hottest day of the year, I tackle the sunroof drains...sheesh

In looking at Peavey (TSC) for fume lines for the bug's fuel tank, I found some vinyl tubing for the GLI's sunroof drain tubing, seeing as the old stuff looks dried out and is too short in the back of a Jetta, remember the roof is from a Rabbit.

I measured the steel outlet tubes at 7/16" and should've stuck to my guns and bought that ID size.  I bought 20' of 3/8" thinking it would stretch,  It did but not stretch enough to push them on more than 1/2".  I backed up the interference fit with a twist of lockwire for security.  I used about 18' of length overall, running the rears deep into the fender.  Make sure you clear out the drains in the bottom of the fenders or its gonna cause problems.

nice and long in the rear fenders

tough to pull them on the tubes, so lockwired for security

A pillar drains above the door hinges

You can see the Rabbit's former colour

Fishing was a challenge, as I initially fished the pillars with wire.  I ended up using a length of plastic tube (that was formerly the vapour lines from tank to filters on the Jetta) as it was rigid enough to fish and allow the tubing to follow over it.

It might've been a pleasant project...if it hadn't have been 32.5 deg C!!!

Advice; pick a 25 deg day, use 3/16" hard plastic rod/tube for fishing, and buy 7/16" ID tubing, it would've gone much better!

On the road....where she belongs!

 Phase 1 complete

She's legal!  She flew through the safety (thanks Chris) and is now on the road.  She's far from finished, but the shakedown runs begin!

This is a bit cathartic, as what I just completed was the thwarted plan in 1998.  Without the use of a garage, it was never going to happen back then.

Need to make an appointment at Krown from some strategic preservative oil placement in the parts I welded on, after next pay....its been an expensive week!

Then the tar boards and carpet goes in, then the nitpicky stuff gets dealt with.  She runs ok, the Chinese carb has issues to resolve, and the drivetrain is quite noisy, and can hear alot of road noise thru the missing bottom of the spare tire well!

She took 2 years, 10 months, 26 days to get her roadworthy.

Final tally of phase 1, is $9192.36; 

- $1700 to ink the deal;

- California Import Parts in Vancouver, (CIP) got the lion's share at $2437.16;

- $944.26 was consumable stuff;

- $762.75 to BH&P to rebuild the heads

- $519.54 worth of stuff turned out to be junk or not usable.  And the rest was used parts, and some misc. (Labour, towing, etc)

Tough reality is that you can't do any degree of heavy restoration, for less than a budget of $10,000...remember, save for a couple colour match rattle cans, the bodywork and paint was untouched...

Hopefully, this is one of the last updates for the Bug, and I can focus on getting the GLI running for the rest of summer!

And Q*RYCHE stands for Queensryche, not some conspiratorial cabal!