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

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

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.

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

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

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.

So satisfying watching all those fresh parts go in

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

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

Excited to see more of the Golf!!

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.

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

That refurbished axle looks great.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

Great job,well done!

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!

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

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

I'm in love with that little car

SAFETY GLASSES when grinding or removing springs.

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 !!

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.

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

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

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!

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

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!

Brilliant video as always mate. Good work

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

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.

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

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

Great work, keep it coming!

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

Great work, looking forward to the engine swop 👍

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!

perfect timing, just starting mine this weekend

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. :-)

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 👍

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

Great video again, admire your attention to detail.

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

Another excellent video. Very satisfying to watch!

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Greetings from the US Missouri thumbs up number 81

Great work as always. Many thanks for sharing

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

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

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

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

Great channel, good editing and relaxing to watch

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

Really nice work, waiting for more of your vídeos.

Your followers from Saudi Arabia, great content

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good work....you rock man!

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

Love this content Memphis 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍

Looks so good!!

Very nicely done

Another quality job.

Nice video man!!!👌👌

Very nice, great work.

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

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

6:54 the sound you make when something dont smell right

Great job👍

beau travail, et surtout belle caisse

sick transformation🔥

Nice job there.

it looks great good work

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

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

Great video

Looks great 👍

Mooi gemaakt top job geweldig 🧐👏✊

Great video. 👍

Great JOB

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. 👍

This looks sick!

24:25 cearful wheel dragging in to hand brake cable.

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

i got paint that takes a week to dry (so you can touch it) and you can not chip that its like a second layer of metal. the longer the paint takes to dry the better it will protect/stick

Great content as always :)