The Cabby is alive and kicking. We were able to get out the bolt by using some drill bits and lots of PB blaster as lubricant. Replaced the bolt and used some JB Weld on the new bolt. It worked great! There is the minor (major) annoyance of the heat shield noise. The clips were rusted so all the heat sheild does is rattles every time I accellerate.
I know! I'll install the radio and drown out the sound! Not so fast... the radio is another issue. Because what is an old VW without issues? When hooking up the radio it would give power to the head unit at all times. That means draining my battery which is no bueno. The previous owner appeared to have another wire ran and we tried that. It does turn on when you start the car now and turn off accordingly, but my radio doesn't remember the presets and goes into demo mode everytime I start the car. There must be some way to keep a little power running to it for memory purposes without sending it into reset mode everytime the car is off. I should note that the radio is an ooolllld Pioneer head unit back from my days as a Car Audio supervisor at Best Buy. So, circa 1999. Heh, that's a bit old, but top of the line in its day! I has a cool animation of the twin towers on it and some other nifty charachteristics so I would like to keep it if possible. Might have to go back to the installers and get some pointers as I didn't do that stuff myself. I can handle speakers and easy stuff, but the wiring is a bit mystifying.
Other issues remain: The parking brake. It has the cables ran but the lever is all disassembled and probably missing some bolts. I may try to buy a replacement kit or go to the junk yard and try my luck there.
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