Winchester roll call . . .

[notatuner]

This thread definitely gets the "Most OT" award

Hopefully we can swing a GTG by the middle of January, it looks like the Tower Records ones are pretty dead for the winter. I'll roll up to Funchester for nostalgia's sake and meet with some dubbers

Another place we might be able to meet is the parking lot by the duck pond in Jim Barnett/SU campus. It's right around the corner from Sheetz in case anyone gets hungry, and it's out of the way so hopefully cops won't come around.

[JKnowledge]

I'd be down for something in the middle of January

Maybe I can have the headgasket in the Caddy replaced bt then.

[thebunnyrabbit]

Hey now that might just be a pretty damn good spot.....good thinkin notatuner. I may have to come home for that one as well! Yeah tower is definatley dead....but the warm weather will revive it!

[RabbitsKin]

Mr. blue-R32 was behind me in traffic the other day, but I was in my truck.

[thebunnyrabbit]

Good ol' Eric...oh I need to call him about my strut bearings!

[VDubnDad]

Okay, I just got finished makin' the arrangements. If everything goes according to plan, I'll be picking up the 'rocco Friday morning...just have to find the best route for getting down to Mass. Ave. with a big-ass trailer.

[thebunnyrabbit]

Just double park like everyone else!!!

[JKnowledge]

Quote, originally posted by VDubnDad »

Okay, I just got finished makin' the arrangements. If everything goes according to plan, I'll be picking up the 'rocco Friday morning...just have to find the best route for getting down to Mass. Ave. with a big-ass trailer.

Which end of Mass Ave? The north or the south?

[notatuner]

I think I'm back in school the 16th or so, but a jaunt down 81 is better than the route I take now (29, 64, 81) so I'd be down for a meet "on the way" back to VT

[602crew]

Sounds good. Let's hook it up!!!

[JKnowledge]

So Sunday the 16th? At 12 PM? At the duckpond parking lot or Pargo's?

[notatuner]

Doesn't matter to me. I'll put it in the book for noon, but might only be able to stay for an hour or two. Anybody that wants to roll down 81 with me is welcome

[thebunnyrabbit]

Maybe I'll be home that weekend!!

[VDubnDad]

Lemme look at my map here. The UK Embassy is up in NW...gotta get past security to pick up the 'rocco.

[JKnowledge]

In that case, I would take 123 (Chain Bridge Road) thru McClean, across the Chain Bridge, right on Canal St, left on Arizona and then over to Mass. Just my thoughts. I go to Sibley Hospital in NW once a month for a project meeting.

[VDubnDad]

Quote, originally posted by JKnowledge »

In that case, I would take 123 (Chain Bridge Road) thru McClean, across the Chain Bridge, right on Canal St, left on Arizona and then over to Mass. Just my thoughts. I go to Sibley Hospital in NW once a month for a project meeting.

That sounds like it makes sense...I'm just a little leery of heading downtown with a trailer. Hopefully, traffic will be lite on Friday morn.

[602crew]

Just pray there are no Rite Aid standoffs that morning.

[dub_tek]

I'd be down for a gtg on the 16th of Jan. So count me in!!

[notatuner]

Elliot, if you haven't sold your Votex rack by the GTG, go ahead and bring it up. I totally forgot to reply to your PM and still need a rack. Sorry, man.

[602crew]

Quote, originally posted by VDubnDad »

My son goes to Millbrook, he rolls an '87 GTI

Is it by chance red? If so i saw him leaving school today.

[dub_tek]

Quote, originally posted by notatuner »

Elliot, if you haven't sold your Votex rack by the GTG, go ahead and bring it up. I totally forgot to reply to your PM and still need a rack. Sorry, man.

I'm pretty sure I'll still have it then, so I'll bring it to whatever gtg we have.

[thebunnyrabbit]

So did everyone have a good Christmas? What's going on for New Year's in Ol' Winchester?

[kutetdi]

For New Years you should try old town. Freeze your butt off, eat some Moose Tracks ice cream (like it helps your thaw out) from the little shop on the corner, watch the ball drop and then run to your car to thaw out. It's lots of fun you should try it

[thebunnyrabbit]

Eh...been there done that.....when I was younger. I will probably not be in Wincheser anyways. Just seein what everyone else was doin!! Have fun!!!

[notatuner]

Quote, originally posted by thebunnyrabbit »

Eh...been there done that.....when I was younger.

Same here. Of course, this year I'll probably freeze my butt off somewhere else, but that's a different story

[stallinbenji]

is there any place in winchester that i could get some bearings and races packed and pressed in some new zimmerman cross drilled rotors i just got?

[JKnowledge]

Unless you are replacing the hubs as well as the rotors, there is no bearing/race replacement involved. Your rotors are held in place by a little set screw and your lugs, all you need to do is pull your wheel, remove the set screw, and replace the rotors. The set screws may break when you remove them, you can either use an easy out to pull them and replace them, or you can do like I did and not replace them at all. This becaomes a bit of a pain because you rotors won't stay lined up with the threads in the hub, so it will be a bit more difficult to put the wheel back on, but it's not that big of a deal. If you want some help with it let me know, we can work something out.

[stallinbenji]

i meant replacing the bearings/races on the rear rotors...and i one of my front rotors is already missing that set screw...heh.....somehow the set screw got screwed directly into the hub and doesn't even pass though the rotor at all....so it spins freely as i try to put the wheel back on....i don't plan to put them on til around spring time sometime since the car is setting with no insurance right now and i still have some other goodies yet to arrive....thanks...

[JKnowledge]

Cool, I have never done the rear rotors on a MKIII VR car, I didn't realize the bearings were pressed into the rotors. I will ask around and see where a good place to have that done would be.

[stallinbenji]

thanks man

[RabbitsKin]

Hey all you MKIII people, I'm selling a bunch of parts off my wrecked GLX. http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1752898

You can come by my shop and check it out if you want.

[thebunnyrabbit]

Hello, hello.....just bumpin this ish up peoples!!

[notatuner]

I was in town this weekend and saw not a single tuned VW

Where is everyone?

[JKnowledge]

My boy's 83 Mars Red GTi was sittin in front of my house on Valley all day yesterday. My MKIII jetta was sittin behind the house. I won't be driving anything but the MKIV TDI Automatic for a little while, cause I got 14 stitches in my knee on Sat.

[kutetdi]

What did you do?!