What did you do to your volkswagen today?

Hobug wrote:

adams77 wrote:I helped replace pans today on Serprice's bug with Hobug. Well Jon (Hobug) mainly watched!

That's because Adam showed up after I cut out the old pans and ground down one side to bare metal.

And Digger............................bite me!

It took you three days to come up with that?

Rusty62 wrote:Sent my index finger for a ride between the belt and the generator pulley. Now its a nasty and stuff, nail should be falling off any day. Lol!

holy shit man . did you break you finger? I would imagine it would have twisted your finger bad. ouch. any pics of your finger

Dang Josh. What were you trying to do? That fastest belt change trick? If so, you're supposed to use a screwdriver, not your finger.

Bugman114 wrote:

Rusty62 wrote:Sent my index finger for a ride between the belt and the generator pulley. Now its a nasty and stuff, nail should be falling off any day. Lol!

holy shit man . did you break you finger? I would imagine it would have twisted your finger bad. ouch. any pics of your finger

2X Pics.

worked on one of the Caddy's today, cleaning and inspecting. primed the pump, hooked up the battery and fired it off!!!! found the paperwork where the original owner purchased it from Coates VW in Griffin.

vwtattooed wrote:worked on one of the Caddy's today, cleaning and inspecting. primed the pump, hooked up the battery and fired it off!!!! found the paperwork where the original owner purchased it from Coates VW in Griffin.

Nice! If I would have had time I would have stopped on my way home and checked it out.

DiggerD wrote:

Hobug wrote:

adams77 wrote:I helped replace pans today on Serprice's bug with Hobug. Well Jon (Hobug) mainly watched!

That's because Adam showed up after I cut out the old pans and ground down one side to bare metal.

And Digger............................bite me!

It took you three days to come up with that?

Yup!

LMAO! No did not brake it just about ripped the nail off. I will throw up some pics when I get home.

Adjusted my valves and saw that cylinder #4 was missing center wavy rocker shim. It was slapping left and right about 3/16 of an inch. It bent the spring clip as well. It's a rebuilt engine. I don't know if it broke or if it was not put on in the first place. I didn't notice it on the first adjustment. I will have to check my oil carefully. Fortunatly I have my old engine to steal parts from.

Went and saw Steve Sands tonight. He had the engines bearings i needed. Let the engine build begin for Sadie

Eric vs. Starter - Round 4

Well, when I was over at my parents the other day going through some parts, I found a filthy dirty starter that probably hasn't been mounted in a car in at least 20 years so I brought it home with me. I decided I would try to install a brand new bushing and this starter just to see what would happen.

Took autostick starter #2 out of the car, and went to work removing the old bushing. Came out easy by threading a tap into it and slowly working it out. While removing the old bushing, my hand hit something so I reached into the starter hole and pulled this out.


Must have been left over from when autostick starter #1 decided to call it quits. Luckily it was too big to fall down into the bell housing. Well, now I was wondering if the current autostick starter was acting up every now and then because this piece was in the way, so I put that starter back in. Nope, test crank #3 gave me that horrible sound, so back under the car I went.

The old bushing came out easy, but I had a little trouble getting the new one in. I tried using a socket extension as a drift to guide it in, which worked great at first, but it was actually flaring out the end with the extension in it, and only went half way in before cracking. Sucked too, cause it was the only bushing I had. So off to Herrell's I went. 1.5 hour round trip for $5 worth of starter bushings.

Made another install tool out of a bolt and the second install went great. Put the starter in, and I'm happy to report that after 15 cranks, I have yet to get the screeching noise!!!! I don't want to get to excited yet though cause it could strike at anytime, but everybody please keep me in your prayers that I may have finally fixed this issue.

Last weekend, Drew got my front end pulled out. Today I got started on a 3 inch narrowed adjustable beam, and Drew dropped the back 2 notches. Tomorrow I'll finish the beam and get it put back in. Can't wait to get Bonnie back on the ground.

bakertim2 wrote:Last weekend, Drew got my front end pulled out. Today I got started on a 3 inch narrowed adjustable beam, and Drew dropped the back 2 notches. Tomorrow I'll finish the beam and get it put back in. Can't wait to get Bonnie back on the ground.

DREW? that was all me tim drew just helped me drop it so I didn't kill myself haha

Drove the Jolly Rancher to FL for some beach camping last week. Another 1000 trouble free miles.

Installed a wood grant wheel on O.B. the other day. I need to get some pics but first I got to clean up the garage so I can get O.B. out.....

Worked on the jetting for Java this evening. I dropped the air jet down a few sizes.....really seems to have freed up some power around 50mph and up....maybe it wont lean out so much now

Also picked up a starter for Jade today since the old one finally gave up during our mountain trip.

Here is few pictures from the mountains...

Cool pics Bryce. Where is this?

sanded and sanded, blew out multicolored snot, then sanded some more.

Getting ready for paint this weekend!

Most of it was in Highlands, NC

buggin70 wrote:

bakertim2 wrote:Last weekend, Drew got my front end pulled out. Today I got started on a 3 inch narrowed adjustable beam, and Drew dropped the back 2 notches. Tomorrow I'll finish the beam and get it put back in. Can't wait to get Bonnie back on the ground.

DREW? that was all me tim drew just helped me drop it so I didn't kill myself haha

That figures Kyle. Thanks for doing that. But, he did get you out there, so, really he did get it done.

Most of it was in Highlands, NC

Nice Bryce. I got married up around there. I need to get my car more trip worthy

bryce that one pic looks like your peeing behind your car

DOODLE BUGG wrote:Bryce that one pic looks like your peeing behind your car

You got me....I was topping off the coolant reservoir.....

More sanding

Attorney Isaiah Loophole wrote:

DOODLE BUGG wrote:Bryce that one pic looks like your peeing behind your car

You got me....I was topping off the coolant reservoir.....

Thats not for coolant, thats the window washing fluid!