All kinds of stuff

["Brubaker, John" <JBrubaker@AMF.com>]

Hey all,

OK, I've heard a little about this east coast meeting on Sept 6 at 
Josh's place.  Well, I definitely would like to be there but...where 
is Josh's shop?  I live in Virginia, I think Josh is somewhere up in 
the north, I'm going to need some time to prepare.  Please, someone 
let me know.

Speaking of meetings, I happened to run into another list member - 
Paul - who lives in Richmond like me, actually he lives about two 
blocks away now (I just moved :-)).  Anyway it was a weird meeting, I 
was pulling some brackets off of a 78 Scirocco in a junkyard when he 
walked up and said hi, we shot the sh$% a little without exchanging 
names.  I noticed his car on the way out - 82 Scirocco and drove home. 
 Well, later that day on my way to get a keg of Killian's for my 
housewarming party, I see his car and decide to leave him an 
invitation under his windshield wiper.  He shows up later, saying he's 
Paul and asked if I had ever seen the list, I say "Yeah!"...and then 
the whole mystic realization that we already knew each other kicked in 
so I introduced him to my car, we had a couple of beers and talked 
about Scirocco's and such. Pretty cool night.

Anyway, I guess you didn't need to hear about all that.  I have a 
couple of questions.

1)	Is it possible to swap my rear drum brakes on my 80 Scirocco with a 
set of rear disc brakes from an 85 Jetta GLI?  If so, do I need 
anything special?
2)	I've notice a slow trickle of anti freeze coming from my engine. 
 Exactly, it is coming from one of the three discs (not sure what they 
are called) that are on the backside of the head facing the firewall. 
 I understand these things are pressed in somehow. Can I replace these 
myself?  Would I need a special tool?  Should I or should I not be 
driving my car?

That's enough for now.  I did get some goodies at the junkyard 
including a 100mph speedo for my Scirocco (from a 79, my speedo only 
goes to 85), two awesome chrome door handles with black inserts (from 
the 79 also), and a nice sting mark from a mad hornet protecting his 
78 Scirocco (that's when I called it quits).

Well, talk to yall later, have a good one (must go play football),

John
80 Scirocco S
85 GTI

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