What did you do to your volkswagen today?

Went to Sleepy Hollow and picked up my starter. The waterbug cranks first time every time with a new solenoid.

69panel wrote:Went to Sleepy Hollow and picked up my starter. The waterbug cranks first time every time with a new solenoid.

Hope that is the end of your electrical woes!! It sure is a good feeling when you finally get all the gremlins out!!

DiggerD wrote:Hope that is the end of your electrical woes!! It sure is a good feeling when you finally get all the gremlins out!!

I heard that! It was embarrassing and a pain in the butt not knowing whether it was going to start or not. I can put up with many things not working right but not being reliable isn't tolerable.

59suicide wrote:
......I used Valvoline 20w50 racing oil .....

Same oil i use. I used to use castrol synthetic, until i read somewhere that synthetic oil in vw engines and transmissions was bad. so a little reasearch, and found that zinc=good, lol.

And the best part, is we sell it where i work (advance auto), and i get 20% off .

Bugman114 wrote:

59suicide wrote:
......I used Valvoline 20w50 racing oil .....

Same oil i use. I used to use castrol synthetic, until i read somewhere that synthetic oil in vw engines and transmissions was bad. so a little reasearch, and found that zinc=good, lol.

And the best part, is we sell it where i work (advance auto), and i get 20% off .

thats why i use it zinc its been recommended to me by multiple great vw mechs. I get my 10% at autozone.

took off the 28 pict to send off to get rebushed/rebuilt. took off the leaking coil.

started hooking up a flame thrower to my turbo bug. I'm doing it the safe way tho. spark plug in the exhaust, hooked up to a second coil, with a button inside the car. got the plug installed today, and hopefully get the coil and everything wired up tomorrow

Bugman114 wrote:started hooking up a flame thrower to my turbo bug. I'm doing it the safe way tho. spark plug in the exhaust, hooked up to a second coil, with a button inside the car. got the plug installed today, and hopefully get the coil and everything wired up tomorrow

sounds like fun i used to have a bay with one and lets just say people didnt ride my bumper

EXACTLY. i want to hit that button, and hopefully the @ss hole riding my tail will back off (or crash )...... "why no officer, i don't know what happened. i guess it backfired, and he got scared". lol, JUST KIDDING........ but no seriously, i hope they will atleast back off

59suicide wrote:

Bugman114 wrote:

59suicide wrote:
......I used Valvoline 20w50 racing oil .....

Same oil i use. I used to use castrol synthetic, until i read somewhere that synthetic oil in vw engines and transmissions was bad. so a little reasearch, and found that zinc=good, lol.

And the best part, is we sell it where i work (advance auto), and i get 20% off .

thats why i use it zinc its been recommended to me by multiple great vw mechs. I get my 10% at autozone.

I sat through one of Charles Navarro's classes and here is the short lesson. He is an oil guru.
http://www.lnengineering.com/oil.html

Well I celebrated too soon. There is still something wrong with the electrical system. I will find the problem because it's made me angry now.

Finally fixed my wipers yesterday.

Left the house for work this morning, all was good. Got about a mile from the house and the car starts pulling to the right real hard. Another flat, no jack. Was able to get to the gas station and put air in the tire, it seemed to hold fine so I moved the valve stem a little and woosh. Found the problem, but now it won't stop. Had to wedge a piece of road trash between the valve stem and the wheel to keep the air in long enough to get back home. Looks like i'll be throwing my smoothies back on until I get the cash to visit stockornaught for some new tires.

Hey Eric,
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=794176

Started shaping the rubber inserts for the Deluxe bumper trim. Had to cut them to length and shape the ends by sanding:
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I ordered the rubber from Wolfsburg West and it is very close to the original.

71_georgia_beetle wrote:

59suicide wrote:

Bugman114 wrote:

59suicide wrote:
......I used Valvoline 20w50 racing oil .....

Same oil i use. I used to use castrol synthetic, until i read somewhere that synthetic oil in vw engines and transmissions was bad. so a little reasearch, and found that zinc=good, lol.

And the best part, is we sell it where i work (advance auto), and i get 20% off .

thats why i use it zinc its been recommended to me by multiple great vw mechs. I get my 10% at autozone.

I sat through one of Charles Navarro's classes and here is the short lesson. He is an oil guru.
http://www.lnengineering.com/oil.html

long read but great and informative. thanks I did learn quite a bit from that.

Broke the Clutch Cable on the way to work this morning. I hope IAS has one so I can install it before leaving work!

rpm750 wrote:Broke the Clutch Cable on the way to work this morning. I hope IAS has one so I can install it before leaving work!

What about the cable we took out of my car before bug-a-paluza? Granted it has been cut a little . Let me know if IAS doesn't have one. I have a spare you can use.

Actually, this was last Thursday........The picture says it all.


Still haven't gotten any news back on the prognosis, Mr. Loophole. Still got those parts?

Don Hall wrote:Actually, this was last Thursday........The picture says it all.


Still haven't gotten any news back on the prognosis, Mr. Loophole. Still got those parts?

Steve's hours are awesome there were plenty of times when I was building my engine and went by there after 7pm for that part I forgot, I think I made 4 lists which were all the "last list" of parts I needed to finish

I found the wire was intermittently shorting out between the alternator and the positive lug of the starter. So the alternator was charging but the charge wasn't making it to the battery. It was a 3 foot long 6 gauge wire. I went to a automotive stereo shop and they put one together for $5.00.
The battery is getting 14.4 volts now. The starter spins faster as well. Maybe (Crossing my fingers) it's over and the problem is finally behind me.

i took the engine out..havin to put a new pressure plate and clutch in. sux balz...and thinkin bout doin a tranny lift anybody have any plans or blue prints i cud go by to do this...im thinkin bout liftin the trans. bout 3 in.

Changed teh oil, adjusted the valves on the bus. Replaced valve cover gaskets on the buggy.

pulled of the generator and shroud.- waiting for parts

skunk wrote:i took the engine out..havin to put a new pressure plate and clutch in. sux balz...and thinkin bout doin a tranny lift anybody have any plans or blue prints i cud go by to do this...im thinkin bout liftin the trans. bout 3 in.

Why? that seems like a lot of work. And info on that would be with the baja bug guys. they sell two main kits. one that raises the whole drive train up, so you would have to cut out a hole in the body, and have the shifter rod over the tunnel, instead of inside (over the tunnel kit). the other kit is called the 10 degree kit, where it angles the engine and tranny 10 degrees, so the shifter stays iside the tunnel, but raises the ass end up. I'm pretty sure those kits are for bus tranny conversions tho, not sure if they are for bug tranny's (been a while since i've reasearched that). but hell, i'd prolly throw a bus tranny in there, because if you ever plan to have more horsepower, atleast you'd be ready for it,

Oh, and haven't really done anything to my VW's yet. All i've done is mount a second coil next to the existing coil, for the flame thrower, and routed a plug wire from it, to the spark plug in the exhaust. all i gotta do is run a button up front, and hope this shit works, lol. i'm running rich as hell, so it should, but we'll see.

Drove it up to Cumming and dropped it off at Stockornaut to get some much needed love done to it.