Post Lockdown update.
Lockdown brought our restoration of the Polo grinding to a halt. With only a few jobs remaining we were stymied by the heater tube that bolts up behind the water pump and supplies the main coolant to the radiator with take offs for the heater. 38 years, 12 of them standing around doing nothing had rotted out the original tube and when we had to pull it to take the starter off to swap the gearbox it disintegrated. A search of the internet revealed this part is obsolete and unavailable new. Chances of one turning up in a scrap yard were minimal too- when did you last see an '82 Polo in the scrappy? Luckily Thomas has a friend Jacob, who is a trainee welder/fabricator, and he agreed to take on the project. So we handed him the remains of the old pipe as a template and promptly the entire country went into lockdown. With no steel suppliers open the project was on hold. On hold unitl yesterday, when Jacob arrived with a viable part - in mild steel, not the stainless steel he'd promi...