ROCCYS ROCCO

i am free-ish tonight, possibly tomorrow night and i am driving to parents early sunday morning. take your pick

how erly sunday morning as i can get the prep done saturday and have it ready to weld for sunday

Need to be in east ravendale for 9. So will probably be passing wybers around, er, 9 lol

sounds good to me so coud u drop it of then for me please and u will be my savour

would u be able to bring my tools aswell as i just remembered ther at urs and i'l most likely be neding them

that is fine. everything is dug out and ready to go. better pm/fb/text me your address!

posh end of grimsby isnt it?

if being in the same half mile radius as willows and nunsthorpe is posh then yer

i'll send u a pm with address ta

little update for today...

i've got all my carpets and underlay out to take away the risk of it setting fire and as it was all out i decided to get rid or the underlay as its unnesecary weight so got rid of that and its also given me a chance to sort out some lazy messy wiring...




also got a picture of the dammage from the inside of the car.



and i've got a plate of steel cut out and in place wich fits and a little test drive went awsome as it felt like a brand new clutch again so its all ready for welding tomorow when dave brings the welder down ( cherz dave ) and back on the road again

well appears i dint update this after the bulkhead failure so here goes as many terrible things have hapend since......

well dave braught down his welder and few hours later i got it welded up and sorted ( but not pictures atm ) so that was that job done just in time for me taking over the bosses bussiness for 3 weeks using my car for lugging around the stuff for work wich was a big task for the rocco but never the less it did me proud indeed ..... UNTILL......

the sunday before my last day using the rocco for work and my clutch went and started slipping wildly aswell as my bushes finally giving in after being badly worn since i baught the car so my steering and road holding was poor to say the least....

but my good freind martin came to the rescue with a spare clutch he had so bank holiday monday we set to changing the clutch wich came to problem of finding my car had a mk2 golf gti gearbox fitted to it instead of the driver box wich ment the clutch was slighlty different.. wich meant we had to then fit the driver box to suit the clutch i was given......

then the driveshafts didn't match so we then had to fit 90mm inner cv's wich were also donated to me by martin so got them on and the car was back together minus the clutch cable wich was yet to be dilvered as my clutch cable had eaten its self....

then the next day we get to my car and the wheel bearing had locked up overnight and fucked its-self so then my car was undrivable again untill the new wheel bearings come....

also i found a new full car set of pollybushes on ebay for a bargain price so i won them and started on fitting them wich came up with more problems of a nakered ball joint and a broken off captive nut in my chassis rail and a broken anti roll bar mount so recified that and got some bushes fitted......

but work will commence for the third weekend at the end of this week with hopefully good news to follow and some pictures when i find my phone charger....

sorry for the massive essay for those who had the time to read this but i had many things to report on ...

My my my! Luck is not on your side Ian!!! I hope it will be a more reliable car soon.. Have you replaced every part at least once yet?

not quite everything yet thanks john but thers not much left to brake now besides the usual unavoidable carb problems lol ......

and some pics from the work carried out.....

the gearbox that martin kindly donated to me .. thanks again martin...


driveshafts removed and out of the way and suspention disconected for the later bumpstop adjustments wich wer made...


gearbox supported ready for removal


then the gearbox off and out of the way for good


the new clutch assebly fitted thanks again martin ...


and a random picture but this is the wasp that claimed martins drink


and decided to roll my arches and adjust ( cut ) the arches so i could go down another 20mm


and another lowered pic


hub removed to put my wheel bearing back were it should be and fit a circlip to stop it trying to work its self off again :/


and pollybushes


then me being broken down only a few hours after repairing all the other things with a new problem being my carburettor.....AGAIN


but with a good strip down and cleaned out the carb again all is well and i got it running properly on the k&n again and all good so fare

and an update for todays work.....

well its been a job thats been wanting to be done since buying the car. the job being getting my wingmirrors off and painted up red again as the'de faded to a pink and white colour and looked gash.. so here goes with some pictures after sanding priming and painting them up and its made the car looks loads better imo as they were really leeting the appearance down....

picture with one wing mirror all painted up and ready for removal of the tape and ready to be fitted back onto the car and other wing mirror as it was before sanding and painting...


driver side wing mirror back on the car


and a pic with both mirrors fitted and the car looking loads better for it

then next job being sort out the wonky grille and try and source some 13's as i tried on martins and they looked pretty cool ( besides the arch gap that's easily fixed )

little pic with martins 13's on the front

another little update on the rocco's reliability......

driving to louth on monday and got nerli 3 quarters of the way there and i got some warning lights pop up on the dashboard so i did the typical thing and ignore them for a few minutes untill i got a hefty smell come thru into the car ( at this point just arriving in louth ) the smell being the sort u get when things i.e engine get overhot to the point of loosing allot of water and oil and steam and everything so thaught i'de let my car lay for a few hours and let it cool whilst the colling sytem does nothing but chug and bubble and boil my water then drove it to my sisters...

got to it the next day it took forver to start and ran like wank then broke down in town with a dead battery so openned the bonnet to find the fan belt was missing so a tow was needed...

so now i no y it overheated and battery flatted i got a new fan belt fitted it and it lives again but not quite as well as it use to so think maybe i overheated a little more than i first thaught and possibly wounded a few things allon the line :/

but hey ho i'll fill it up with oil and water again and see how far it gets me tonight

what a faliure,
you didnt even open the bonnet after warning lights and a smell of imminent death.

theres a good possibility that the head gasket has gone
and the worst part is it was completely avoidable and entirely your own fault.

i openned the bonnet but twas verry late night and ladybits see much but never the less its not too bad i cane from louth home tonight and once it was warmed up it was fine and i noticed the belt had gone when i checkd my alternater as the bearing has been gone for a while so i went to check for play and there was no belt

how long has this forum had a swear filter

haha nice touch from a moderator there ... took me a while to work it out :/

didnt know we had a swear filter!

little update for the rocco...

thaught it was about time i got some new wheels so here goes what do u all think....

and the fronts will be on as soon as my longer wheel bolts arrive....









comments welcome

so you bought them then.
does that mean i can have my bbs`s back

yer u can do martin ...

tyres are bad though due to epic tracking failure

not all the wheel spinning then?

not at all

why will the front ones not fit then?