Volkswagen Golf Mk1 COMPLETE Rear Axle Restoration!

[@Bantamscooter]

'Going to start by taking everything apart'. **A wild angle grinder appears**

[@naimderrickrose16s79]

Thanks for that vidéo that will help me in the restauration of the Golf 2 of my grandma 😁

[@bramdejong7355]

Memphis, take a look at the left hand brake Cable. It is rubbing against the Wheel!! (24.29 in video) The right side seems to be ok.

[@thelizardus]

great job spotting that

[@TheGunner2013]

I see That to 🧐🧐

[@tornikechelidze5970]

You’re A Lifesaver ❤️

[@GWaveSounds]

this is the most productive car channel on vw, everything is transparent and easy to understand, great camera angles well done

[@TheNorthernmunky]

Brilliant video as always mate. Good work

[@atishinderjeet6426]

Great video. I'm a MK1 owner currently replacing brake drums and backing plate. First attempt. This video has been very helpful.

[@Nerz845]

me who likes Volkswagens, especially golfs: *happiness noises*

[@bryansmith6000]

Excited to see more of the Golf!!

[@jeffkelly636]

My project is quite old & rusty - when it comes to fasteners. I soaked those 4 nuts holding the rear beam pivots, in pbblaster several times - over several weeks- and wire brushed the threads, nervous I would shear a stud off. After a few weeks of multiple soaking of pbblaster, those nuts came off without an impact, just broke loose with a ratchet by hand. I'm so glad for quality videos like this Memphis.

[@TheNorthernmunky]

I love that you said “take a gander” that’s such a cockney term! Brilliant!

[@jakobkonradsen1248]

So satisfying watching all those fresh parts go in

[@Cher007]

Definitely need to do a rear disc brake conversion when swapping in that 2.0 you talked about, gonna need all that stopping power :)

[@ACDC1998Zippo]

Good idea to uprade to an axle with an anti roll bar. Personally I would have gone a bit further by installing poly bushes.

[@MarcosAurelio-nm7ei]

Greetings from Brazil!!! Great job, this MK1 looks beautiful, too bad we don't have this car in Brazil. Here we only have it from the MK3 and here the Golf is a very appreciated car!

[@abdulmjeedasiri1482]

Your followers from Saudi Arabia, great content

[@taunuslunatic404]

That refurbished axle looks great.

[@hermanj7418]

Hallo Memphis, die achteras jongen dat heb je weer netjes gedaan ikzelf heb in de garage gewerkt en als ik zie hoe jullie dit doen vind ik helemaal prima en zeker als je die leuke uitleg er ook nog eens bij doet, dit noem ik nou gewoon hobbyen met eenvoud. Groeten Herman

[@MrHuismeester]

Weer een stukje vakwerk ! Leerzame video daar ik geen enkel idee had hoe zoiets nu in elkaar steekt en moet je zeggen dat het wel veel werk was, maar dat het eindresultaat meer dan oke is ! Alles ziet er weer als nieuw uit en dat geeft een mooi aanblik als je onder de auto kijkt. Vakwerk dus en m,n complimenten !!

[@ohcrapwhatsnext]

Great job guys.....Explaining what your doing is essential to follow along... cool

[@oswold100]

You’re a great young man if only there were more like you!😊

[@BRB914]

Great video. Props from Westchester NY. I respect the time you take to make these videos. I have a buddy of mine I’m Canada who makes Volkswagen videos too. I’m definitely going to upload one soon. Take care and cheers

[@jesusmezquita]

Awsome job. i did the exact same upgrade and restoration on my mk1 only did electrostatick black paint on the beam and red on the anti roll bar.

[@rabk5702]

You done a terrific job on that sub frame nice posting :-)

[@matthewbell1968]

Woah, 86k subscribers and rising well done and thoroughly deserved Memphis this is a great channel 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧😊😊

[@mariobarata2382]

Great job,well done!

[@pgapieper]

Weer een top video Memphis, ik leer veel van je: bij mijn 83iger GTi moet ik dit ook eens gaan doen, dankzij jouw video vertrouw ik erop dat ik dat komende winter mooi eens kan gaan aanpakken. Keep up your good work!

[@danivaleiro8273]

I'm in love with that little car

[@carlkwasnjuk9518]

Very well done! Watching from Pennsylvania USA. I own a 2010 GTI with 6 speed manual and a 2008 Jetta Wolfsburg 2.0T with the DSG.

[@andersonroberts9815]

Hello Carl.. How are you

[@affordablevs]

Great work, keep it coming!

[@maxisanglier7945]

Hello Memphis, just so you know, gti's come with rear anti roll bars from the factory ! Great video keep up 😉

[@AndrewKNI]

YES!! an excuse not to go to bed! Great video - fascinating to see your impressive skills in action. :-)

[@tonylopes8175]

Hello and hope this msg finds you well and safe. Iove the work you've been doing to your rabbit plus that garage you and your dad built, it's just awesome. I live in New York Long Island and if your ever in the neighborhood let me know would love to chat about your car. If you were close I would lend you some tools lol. It's too bad you are so far, anyway keep up the great work, good luck with everything and take care.

[@AntoniusK]

Another excellent video. Very satisfying to watch!

[@emildan772]

VW golf Mk 1,my first car. A good car and reliable.

[@paultaylor9652]

Great video again, admire your attention to detail.

[@jasonkeenan7381]

perfect timing, just starting mine this weekend

[@kottarainen665]

Great video again! I had done several same things to my project mk2 Polo, its more fun to put everything back together with fresh paint on parts and finally see results how old car slowly turn back to new 🤟 Greetings from Finland!

[@davidblackwell7958]

Great work, looking forward to the engine swop 👍

[@VIDEOSdeJOAOSOUSA]

Really nice work, waiting for more of your vídeos.

[@maheshmistry2653]

Just watched the video great restoration on rear axle , is worth doing a stonechip paint protection to axle .

[@El_Indio_OS]

Great channel, good editing and relaxing to watch

[@nikolaosstergiopoulos6888]

Very nice video. I want to do the same in my polo 86c and you give a lot of motivation. Keep the great work. Greetings from Greece

[@Wolfiejohn]

nice work and is awesome to have friends to help wish i had friends like y'all great job cant wait for more be safe buddy

[@miketeeveedub5779]

Brought back a lot of memories when I rebuilt the rear end on my Mk1 Jetta Gli Coupe. I would have like to have seen you push in the new rear main bushing onto its hanger bracket - that was a pain in the butt for me! Great job overall! BTW - go over to Imgur and search for "my 1984 Jetta GLi coupe" for some pics I took of my car. Cheers from Canada!

[@bimmerausspanien335d9]

You did a really good job! Congrats! the Golf looks amazing and it's super nice! greetings from Spain my friend :)

[@broomad]

Great work as always. Many thanks for sharing

[@simondoesthings]

Notification squad! Always happy to see your upload. Just the very beginning shows how much your video production skills have improved

[@nigelbond4056]

Watching you work is both inspiring and relaxing: one of life’s little joys. You did such a great job with the rear axle. I’m always stunned by your knowledge and ability. The commentary is pretty awesome too 👍

[@Nutzername1273]

Very nice video and a really good looking result. All that was missing was a test drive or at least your opinion on the new rear axle after a driving it for a bit. I gues you’ll probably do that in one of the next golf videos. Im very excited for the engine swap!

[@guzziwheeler]

You need to push up the spring-loaded wedge of the automatic brake adjuster before taking off the brake drum. You can easily reach the wedge with a screwdriver through a hole for the wheel bolt in two o´clock position. After this, you can take off the drum with one hand.

[@Nutzername1273]

Cool! A new Video from Memphis! Let’s see what he did on the golf:)

[@julianguastadisegno]

I think is time to restore that workbenck too, great video man

[@jochemneeskens760]

Amazing video once again mate!! Keep up the good work, really looking forward to the exhaust on the e28!

[@laszlovona]

I did this in early 2023.. It is tedious for sure.. I even samdblasted big parts in the garden..😭.. but eventually I went for powdercoating everything. I wanted to epoxy prime,.and 2K paint them, but powdercoating is a shortcut and relief after so much preparation. You have a very nice mk1 (I am not sure if you still have it, but if yes, pls keep it forever 😉). Cheers!

[@dorinbugnar5930]

Very nice video, too bad we can't do disc brake conversions congrats and have fun with the car

[@dagenhamdave2611]

Great attention to detail Can’t wait to see the 2.0 litre engine going in

[@inekelassooij840]

Mooi gemaakt top job geweldig 🧐👏✊

[@cybersurfer2010]

In the BIN... lol... Nice work Memphis!

[@nigel-Rollercam-channel]

Looks great I love the results, I typed a huge comment but youtube deleted it. Anyways you may want to consider ball joint extenders to retain control arm geometry and and big rear bar depending on how tail happy you want your Mk1 to be. I usually run my Mk1 without a front bar.

[@Hound87]

That was a really satisfying video to watch! Great work!

[@colinbubeneck947]

Goed bezig !!! Bin there done that years ago ;) You build an complete garage, next decend workbench.

[@thecarenthusiast4562]

Nice work, but why not directly go for a disc brake upgrade in the rear? :D

[@kwwk692]

I think that is not allowed in Belgium

[@memphis5220]

Illegal sadly

[@dorinbugnar5930]

We live in Europe and the car must be as stock as possible or you will not pass inspection

[@Vytccka]

@@dorinbugnar5930 I live in Europe my country allows such conversions. i did that on my audi 100 c4 last summer :)

[@iebe4388]

Yeah, it's depends from country to country, he(memphis) lives in Belgium and here we pretty much can't do anything to our cars. But there is a light, they are redoing the oldtimer law's

[@garyhaughton8780]

Thanks for your vids. That table looks like it needs a bit of TLC :)

[@paulpateman6723]

Love this content Memphis 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍

[@vdbeke]

it looks like the brake line is touching the innerside of your rim (last shot) nice work! looks as new from the factory

[@trm_neooreo1373]

Can't wait to see when you hiting the limits on the Nürburgring.

[@henkbakker3588]

Hey you forgot to mention if the ride is much better then before! Again it was nice to watch 😊

[@paddrivers]

Good work....you rock man!

[@raoulwouters7074]

If I may give you a tip. The silver caps are not impact resistant and can split or even break into pieces. Best that you take blow resistant caps, these are usually black and much stronger for these jobs. I also work a lot on cars and motorcycles. Speak of experience. Greetings from Antwerp

[@walterbutscher8438]

Good to see you working on this car. Can I ship you my cabby? What a great job. The black and silver with red springs make it look really amazing. You did a fantastic job. 👍

[@oxcartracing]

Greetings from the US Missouri thumbs up number 81

[@maxvanbeers4548]

Ooh man, wat een verschil! Heerlijk om te kijken👌

[@BEYTEK]

man this is perfect timing im going to be doing mine!! subbed

[@briansequeira5609]

Very nicely done

[@kathyzed8870]

beau travail, et surtout belle caisse

[@nidalghazal1890]

Nice to watch hope the fix was good as you did not take a spin to test it

[@Dutch-vj2eg]

Nice! Why no upgrade to rear disks? It would improve brake response a great deal.

[@thebuilder3421]

when are you going to restore that table? :D it looks a bit wobbely :D

[@nickarko7468]

Very nice improvement to the Golf. We want to know how it drives now!

[@durahel74]

Memphis, if you want to swap to a 2.0l engine maybe you need to think also about a upgrade of the rear drum brakes to disc brakes. :-)

[@santiagoferrereres651]

Nice video man!!!👌👌

[@nate_meador89]

Looks so good!!

[@ebra.him000]

Nice work 👍 that ARB seems pointless though being completely bolted to the solid axel only

[@adambouzid165]

it looks great good work

[@CF-xu7pb]

Another quality job.

[@darkmaster2052]

COMPLETE Rear Axle Restoration in just 25 minutes - how hard it can be

[@jimmyf9464]

Next time you should use bilt hamber deox c and gel for your next restoration... Will save all that grinding 👍

[@retrobikechannel2599]

Nice job there.

[@Oyvind88]

Great video😃🇳🇴

[@jamiepotgieter]

Same swap I did on my channel 🙌🏻 keep up the great content bro 🔥

[@dankenney5212]

Thank you for using the protection guard on your angle grinder.

[@erikv5382]

Great to see that Eddy approves :-)!Wauw!

[@johnwilson2250]

Very nice, great work.

[@TheSergeantWaffle]

We really need to start a GoFundMe to buy Memphis some 2x4's so he can brace up his work table.

[@EnriqueLopez-hb5jn]

Wow, how awesome, the job👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌

[@petergreen6922]

Great job👍

[@Svemir.]

Oh, i love this so much. I wanna press like button till i stroke out!

[@lasalasdelbosque3308]

Love it!!!

[@zeproo]

Great JOB

[@mopedinthemalverns6661]

Great video. This may sound stupid but if the rear axle is a solid piece then what does the anti-roll bar do? I thought they only connected two sets of wheels that are independently suspended with wishbones or similar. Does the box-section of the axle flex without the roll bar? 'Liked' as usual.