Yeah I've seen people do that when shaving their bays, I did mean to take the rad out from the polo today to give it a look over but got distracted doing other things, namely this :
I started out taking the headlights off the front and taking a look at the backs to see if I could get the wiring out so I can use them in the mk2 with no chopping. Turns out you can. This is the back of the 6n headlights.
After popping off the plug, it's just a separate loom but threaded through the housing, because the bulb end was too fat to get out past the headlight adjuster motor I had to de-pin the plug, interestingly to me you can clearly see inside the housing the headlight adjuster motor... I noted that even though it's there it wasn't hooked up, no wiring for it at all.
De-pin and re pin into this :
plug and play at the front now as the mk2 uses the same bulbs and bulb layout with separate indicators at the front. Things like this wont be as easy for the interior or rear lights for sure but I will try my best to get through it to ensure everything works.
Next up like I said I had planned on getting the rad out after the headlights. We all know things can very quickly escalate, I got in the car with a brew in hand and a sausage roll or two to get out of the wind for a moment and decided it was much nicer out of the wind and that getting the dash and interior loom out was more important.
I presumed that the dash would be mounted in much the same way the mk2 was, it was in many respects, centre console off, steering wheel and stalks off, one screw on either end then two in the rain tray... ahh no screws in the rain tray just more down the passenger side behind heater.
Once the dash was finally out I was quite happy to see a very tidy little pair panels, one for fuses the other for all the plugs, mostly to the engine, all colour coded. Brilliant, life will be easy.
Whilst taking the dash out, there were two realizations one feeding the other, using the original speedo may no longer be viable, I had assumed (ass out of u and me) these polos were cable rev and speedo, taking out the clocks revealed it's just one electric plug. To be honest I hadn't really looked over the engine for those things yet. So I'll be using the polo clocks if I can get them to fit reasonably well. If not, well that's when I noticed it has an OBD2 port, something I didn't know this car had. I happen to have a little computer that plugs into the OBD2 port which can display everything I need from the ECU I used it for water temp and boost pressure when running the 20v, whilst it's on the small side, the other half has an old samsung tablet I could use as a sort of digidash with a bluetooth adaptor. I know I could hook a rev gauge up to the coil and see if I can find a cable setup for the gearbox as people manage it in mk1's and older polos but for now this is fine.
At that point all was getting a bit dark, I started putting everything away and closing up shop, whilst looking at the interior loom lay over one of the polos removed seats I just knew if I didn't lay it in the mk2 I'd forget something... que lots of faffing in a tiny space where I can only get in the passenger side door because the car is parked 3" from the wall on the drivers side. The seats are now seeking refuge in my living room because I needed to lift the carpet, we only have a two seat sofa so it definitely adds to our guest capacity.
Onto possibly the main reason why I love faffing with VW's. I lay the wiring in, it was just the right length front to back. The clips on the loom to hold it in place were in just the right places to go into factory holes in the mk2 and the fuel pump plugged right in. I presume this is because the fuel pump was changed for the 20v to something of similar age as the 6n polo. There are obviously differences in plugs and some wiring (handbrake light has two wires now not one) but I'll get around them I'm sure.
Leaving us here at the end of play today, I'll get the fuse box mount out of the polo and see if it fits in. Crossed fingers.
I started out taking the headlights off the front and taking a look at the backs to see if I could get the wiring out so I can use them in the mk2 with no chopping. Turns out you can. This is the back of the 6n headlights.
After popping off the plug, it's just a separate loom but threaded through the housing, because the bulb end was too fat to get out past the headlight adjuster motor I had to de-pin the plug, interestingly to me you can clearly see inside the housing the headlight adjuster motor... I noted that even though it's there it wasn't hooked up, no wiring for it at all.
De-pin and re pin into this :
plug and play at the front now as the mk2 uses the same bulbs and bulb layout with separate indicators at the front. Things like this wont be as easy for the interior or rear lights for sure but I will try my best to get through it to ensure everything works.
Next up like I said I had planned on getting the rad out after the headlights. We all know things can very quickly escalate, I got in the car with a brew in hand and a sausage roll or two to get out of the wind for a moment and decided it was much nicer out of the wind and that getting the dash and interior loom out was more important.
I presumed that the dash would be mounted in much the same way the mk2 was, it was in many respects, centre console off, steering wheel and stalks off, one screw on either end then two in the rain tray... ahh no screws in the rain tray just more down the passenger side behind heater.
Once the dash was finally out I was quite happy to see a very tidy little pair panels, one for fuses the other for all the plugs, mostly to the engine, all colour coded. Brilliant, life will be easy.
Whilst taking the dash out, there were two realizations one feeding the other, using the original speedo may no longer be viable, I had assumed (ass out of u and me) these polos were cable rev and speedo, taking out the clocks revealed it's just one electric plug. To be honest I hadn't really looked over the engine for those things yet. So I'll be using the polo clocks if I can get them to fit reasonably well. If not, well that's when I noticed it has an OBD2 port, something I didn't know this car had. I happen to have a little computer that plugs into the OBD2 port which can display everything I need from the ECU I used it for water temp and boost pressure when running the 20v, whilst it's on the small side, the other half has an old samsung tablet I could use as a sort of digidash with a bluetooth adaptor. I know I could hook a rev gauge up to the coil and see if I can find a cable setup for the gearbox as people manage it in mk1's and older polos but for now this is fine.
At that point all was getting a bit dark, I started putting everything away and closing up shop, whilst looking at the interior loom lay over one of the polos removed seats I just knew if I didn't lay it in the mk2 I'd forget something... que lots of faffing in a tiny space where I can only get in the passenger side door because the car is parked 3" from the wall on the drivers side. The seats are now seeking refuge in my living room because I needed to lift the carpet, we only have a two seat sofa so it definitely adds to our guest capacity.
Onto possibly the main reason why I love faffing with VW's. I lay the wiring in, it was just the right length front to back. The clips on the loom to hold it in place were in just the right places to go into factory holes in the mk2 and the fuel pump plugged right in. I presume this is because the fuel pump was changed for the 20v to something of similar age as the 6n polo. There are obviously differences in plugs and some wiring (handbrake light has two wires now not one) but I'll get around them I'm sure.
Leaving us here at the end of play today, I'll get the fuse box mount out of the polo and see if it fits in. Crossed fingers.