New oil pan is on and that's what I ended up doing (not using RTV along with the gasket). I looked at the gasketing method on the pan I took off and used that as a guide.

Caliper went right back on with no problems, oddly enough. Tightened everything back down, reinstalled the wheels after using some WD40 and Scotchbrite to attempt to make the wheels alloy colored rather than totally black. Sat the car on it's wheels and there is no sign of the inward lean I had before, so that's a good sign.



The tires up front are worn on the inside edge (pass side is down to the wires) so it's had an alignment problem for quite a while.

I broke off the vacuum line at the ALDA nipple some time ago so I ran a new line with some poly vacuum tubing left over from my old Passat.

The battery is on the charger, it was down to 12.2v and I think with the cold weather around here I'd rather it was fully charged. It's never had a problem starting but why chance it?

All I want to do now is fire it up and get it up and down the driveway a few times and see how it drives as best I can. If it runs fairly well, we can think about getting some replacement sheet metal and start digging into what the body will need.