Caddyrages truck, now smoothing bay

Thought i'd get to the bottom of my fuel pressure prob. RAC man said he could p1ss faster lol.

Stripped the tank off along with all the injection parts so i could clean it all up.

Removed the sendor on the top of the tank first of all to see if it looked clean inside. Well it looked well clean but noticed all this in the bottom...

Spotted that it read NUR DIESEL ONLY on the top of the blue part so got me thinking.
Already knew that petrol/diesel tanks are the same so did a search to find the blue part can be removed via the sendor hole.
I used a tent peg from last weekends shows on the end of some pliers to hook it out as theres a loop in the top of it.


Believing this should solve my prob, thought i'd give the top of the tank a coat of hammerite. Had some blue left over from something in the past so figured that would do, afterall you dont see that bit anyway


Underside looked pretty good so just touched in a few bits to protect for a little longer


Before i started today, i collected another tailgate which i gunna do some graphics too and use as daily. Saves my new 1 getting bent up before the rest of the trucks repainted.

just need an handle for it. It was only 50 notes but i got pulled in the ibiza for the pressed plates :rolleyes: so it now owes me 80 :I

Looks cool

Cheers man

Got my caddy all running again after some tinkering around after work today. woohoo

Need to sort a replacement water pump and pulley as it squeels and for some reason chewing the teeth off the belt

All is good with its fueling probs now though, so i pretty pleased for now

CaddyRage wrote:

Got my caddy all running again after some tinkering around after work today. woohoo

Need to sort a replacement water pump and pulley as it squeels and for some reason chewing the teeth off the belt

All is good with its fueling probs now though, so i pretty pleased for now

knackered bearing in the pump will chew teeth mate as the pulley will run out of line.

Tiz wrote:

knackered bearing in the pump will chew teeth mate as the pulley will run out of line.

Thats what i thought mate. Pulley has a small bump to it so i guess i did it when dropping the engine in

Tried calling ya earlier to see if ya had a pulley.

Going to buy new cambelt, tensioner, water pump tommorrow. Will do an oil change too.

CaddyRage wrote:

Tiz wrote:

knackered bearing in the pump will chew teeth mate as the pulley will run out of line.

Thats what i thought mate. Pulley has a small bump to it so i guess i did it when dropping the engine in

Tried calling ya earlier to see if ya had a pulley.

Going to buy new cambelt, tensioner, water pump tommorrow. Will do an oil change too.

balls yeah just been down the shed and got my phone cause i left it down there. Got plenty of pulleys you can choose from.

Cool beans , will pop round when i get back from work then

Got her back up and running last thursday so thought it was time to spend some money on service parts. cambelt, tensioner, water pump, oil filter and so on...
Planned to have got it all sorted saturday in time for players but opted out Knowing i still had my rear arches to sort just so i could go over 40mph on the splitties

Not rolled a caddy rear arch properly before and know that they are a pain in the backside due to them being double skinned so figured i best use my blue truck as a guinea pig To do a test on

standard rear arch lip

Cut some slits into it. Its difficult to stretch metal so this is the best option IMO. Only did this to where the arch spat is.


Done!


Was'nt too sure if this would surfice or even be a good roll but checked out 2 well known caddy's at players and they was'nt as good as this, so i well pleased with the result now.
Will probs do the other side as another test before attacking my white truck
Tools used....
Arch roller, Hammer, 3in die cutter, Dolly

looks a proper job m8. pretty much the same way ive done mine before on others cars.

thats an awsome job you done there lee, feel free to come do mine on my white caddy

Cheers lads.

When i do those on my white truck, i'll clean back all the original sealer, cut the slits into the lip then re-underseal.

when i'am happy with the roll, i'll then use some sealer to coat the whole area so it prevents any water traps.

I'll take more pic's when i do them

good stuff kanye looking good

the next time you come to sutton bridge you can come and do my arches:lol!:

Rolled my passenger side arch today. unfortunately, the roller is no good as the trucks too low for it to work so had to do it with the mighty hammer.

Not happy with how the arch looks but its rolled.

Good job i doing this before getting the whole thing painted hey.

i got the roller in my arch on a standard axle flip!?

whats happened to the arch from the outside? have you warped it? was thinking about having ago on the white caddy tomoz with a hammer, but if im going to damage it ile leave them

The roller cant get on enough of the lip to work.

In the end, i made more cuts into the lip to roll the gradually. I knew i would have paintwork probs do top the last owner doing some filler work to cover the holes where the spats go but, where the cuts are, they made creases in the outer arch line.

Nothing that cant be sorted, just looks a little untidy at the mo thats all.

i did manage to clean back the sealer on the drivers side before going work aswell today so i'll see how i get on with that 2moro.

wow u have been busy! i think im going to give mine ago tomoz then, not exactly going t damage the primer look ive gone for at the mo lol i dont mind the odd dent i can filler slap

Ok, i got the drivers side rear rolled today.

jacked it up in the opposit corner to check clearance and its all good

Should'nt get much scrubbage now anyway, well til i go lower lol



Also using my father inlaws porsche as a daily now as he wants me to check it over so he's taken the poopy fiesta back woohoo!

Looking good dude, what you got planned paint wise?

Keeping it white brad, just going to delete the unused wiper and bumper holes, side repeaters.

Just need to get a few miles under its belt now before i strip the thing back down for paint. Either by yourself or when steve does his

Nice clean and simple, whites the way to go defo! Are you gonna clean and rewax the wood down the sides. Love to see them stay on there!

Probs going to rewax the wood yeah, not sure they'll be going back on after paint though.

are you gonna put the g60's on for the winter i take it lee? if so do you want the vw signs on the centre caps detailed another colour as i done them grey to match my caddy?

Yeah will go on for winter so i can refurb the splitties it sits on now.

Not fussed bout the caps mate as i have some different 1's here