What did you do to your volkswagen today?

Bugman114 wrote:

DiggerD wrote:

Bugman114 wrote:well, today i was driving down panola road, when all of a sudden i see the right side of my hood start to flap around. then like 2 seconds later, the entire hood flips back, breaks off, and goes flying into the air. i stopped, and looked back to see where the hood had fallen. like 5 seconds later the hood comes crashing back down to earth . turns out the hinges broke in half. as many of you know, i had replaced my stock internal hinges, with some external hood hinges from a 1940 something pontiac. it seems that the 70 year old hinges had just had too much stress over theirt life, and simply broke in half. upon further inspection, they were a little crumbly around the edges. anyhoo, amazingly when the hood flew off, if didn't damage anything, and didn't even touch the windshield. when the hood broke off, it was really windy, the hood must have gone atleast 20 feet high due to the wind, because it was in the air about 30 seconds . some serious hang time . good thing no one else was on the road at the time. anyhoo the hood really wasn't damaged too badly. it basically creased in half a little, but looks like it might be fixable. pics to come later....

On a better note, today i bought a t25 turbo from a mitsubishi galant AND a small intercooler, all for $25. the turbo is in perfect shape, so i'll be using it for my turbo motor .

Ummmm.............What?

Bugman114 wrote:well, today i was driving down panola road, when all of a sudden i see the right side of my hood start to flap around. then like 2 seconds later, the entire hood flips back, breaks off, and goes flying into the air. i stopped, and looked back to see where the hood had fallen. like 5 seconds later the hood comes crashing back down to earth . turns out the hinges broke in half. as many of you know, i had replaced my stock internal hinges, with some external hood hinges from a 1940 something pontiac. it seems that the 70 year old hinges had just had too much stress over theirt life, and simply broke in half. upon further inspection, they were a little crumbly around the edges. anyhoo, amazingly when the hood flew off, if didn't damage anything, and didn't even touch the windshield. when the hood broke off, it was really windy, the hood must have gone atleast 20 feet high due to the wind, because it was in the air about 30 seconds . some serious hang time . good thing no one else was on the road at the time. anyhoo the hood really wasn't damaged too badly. it basically creased in half a little, but looks like it might be fixable. pics to come later....

On a better note, today i bought a t25 turbo from a mitsubishi galant AND a small intercooler, all for $25. the turbo is in perfect shape, so i'll be using it for my turbo motor .

bumblebuggy wrote:Pulled the buggy engine out of the bus and swapped a bunch of the accesories over to the new bus engine. Drove to Stockornaut to pick up a couple parts reinstalling tomorrow while the snow falls.

Bugman114 wrote:it looks like the only bondo it might need is on the sides, where the creases are at, and maybe a light skim coat in the middle.

Votwing wrote:removed the left front fender and started cutting out the bad section. A little worse at the bottom than I thought but nothing I cant fix.

Funny thing is that when I cut the small square section out, an old wrench feel out.

DiggerD wrote:So you will be ready to pull out with us next Thursday then. Right??

fluxcap wrote:

Bugman114 wrote:it looks like the only bondo it might need is on the sides, where the creases are at, and maybe a light skim coat in the middle.

Turbo, please don't waste your time fixing that hood. Just buy this and consider it done.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=871733

I'd almost pay for it myself just to see you driving around with it!