What did you do to your volkswagen today?

DiggerD wrote:Yeah, I saw the wheels the other night and thought they looked good. With the cokers on them they really look great!! I think it is a great look for your car.

whats good Digger you going back up wednesday nite? welost you coming down that nite we pulled over to see if you were ok

56HAVOC wrote:

DiggerD wrote:Yeah, I saw the wheels the other night and thought they looked good. With the cokers on them they really look great!! I think it is a great look for your car.

whats good Digger you going back up wednesday nite? welost you coming down that nite we pulled over to see if you were ok

I got off at GA 20, I flashed my lights but I think yall were around the curve by then. I will prob make it next wed tho.....

Adjusted the clutch cable and fixed a tail light on the Oval today, I'm still sore from helping Gary move yesterday. Gary got a bunch of help, and we rocked it out!

did my front brakes and put in new soft lines, should have her running in no time

cylops80 wrote:did my front brakes and put in new soft lines, should have her running in no time

glad to hear your working on it. And you should be ready and day now right lol!!!

Got most of the welding done on the German Look. I did get all the welding done on the front left quarter panel. Did all the grinding and ready for the skim coat of bondo. Turned out not to bad. I will post a few pics tomorrow.

Went up to Stockornaut tonight in the waterbug without incident. All of my lights are working and the heater was pumping warm air on my feet. No starting problems. The new battery took care of that. I think it's road worthy at last.

Pulled the passenger drum off today to compare with the one that stripped. Things are starting to make sense now. There is a 1/4" difference in the hub thickness between the two. It appears that there was a 1/4 spacer on the driver side at one time and was missing when I got the bus. The former owner had been trying to do some brake work, and I think it was left off when he reassembled the hub. The extra play eventually ate up the splines in the drum. When we replaced the first drum, we just reassembled it like it was and unknowingly duplicated the problem again. Of course this is all theory until I get a new drum, make a spacer, and drive it over 5000 miles!!

I'll bring one of my 4 lug type 3 drums tonight, you can compare them

Thought I'd busted my Trans but it turns out that the Passenger side Nut(rear wheel) was loose and causing a real loud roar on partial throttle. Tightened the shit out of it! Also got to go to Herrell's on Sat. and get some new disk brake pads, mine are to the metal!

rpm750 wrote:Thought I'd busted my Trans but it turns out that the Passenger side Nut(rear wheel) was loose and causing a real loud roar on partial throttle. Tightened the shit out of it! Also got to go to Herrell's on Sat. and get some new disk brake pads, mine are to the metal!

WOW!!! Bro your so luck lol!!!! Mind was trashed and I had to order a new one. Take care of the one you have. Didn't know they cost so much. Hope to get it I tomorrow some time.

rpm750 wrote:Thought I'd busted my Trans but it turns out that the Passenger side Nut(rear wheel) was loose and causing a real loud roar on partial throttle. Tightened the shit out of it! Also got to go to Herrell's on Sat. and get some new disk brake pads, mine are to the metal!

Lucky you caught it in time or you would probably be like me and have a drum with all the splines sheared off.

Bob, was this the same one you and Glenn had to work on before Bugjam?

Yeah same one, I just went for a spin and that fixed it. He's been running really good since I took the POS Empi 009 out. I got a stock 205T vacuum advance dizzy in there. Still need a re-bushed carb from keifernet. Thank God the trans isn't busted!

rpm750 wrote:Yeah same one, I just went for a spin and that fixed it. He's been running really good since I took the POS Empi 009 out. I got a stock 205T vacuum advance dizzy in there. Still need a re-bushed carb from keifernet. Thank God the trans isn't busted!

lol!!!! i feel you bro

Today i went up to stockornaut. first time i have ever been up there. Really cool guys. spent overn an hour lookin at stuff, and talkin, and trying to find me a good cam. we eventually found a good one. price was right. as i went to the ATM to git some money, he cleaned it up and oiled it. really awsome.

After that i picked up my new daily driver. its a 1972 super beetle. has a newly built 2007cc engine, with a brand spankin new weber 44 IDF centermount carb. new lowering springs, etc. drives great. felt good to actually drive home a vw for a change, instead of towing it home, hahahahaha. and the best part............. i got it for $1,000 . anyhoo, here's the VW porn:

obviously needs a little TLC, but just minor stuff. as i went to pull out, it must have taken me like 20 mins to figure out where the friggin light switch was, lol. i so used to the giant rectangular black switch on the left side of my 74 super beetle. the car origionally had AC, so it had a bunch of those black knobs everywhere, and thought the light switch was just another vent knob, since they looked the same, hahaha. made me feel like a dumbass,

got to see that thing run, it sound real strong congrats dude

Step back from the Turbo. It will hurt you now..........

rpm750 wrote:Step back from the Turbo. It will hurt you now..........

. oh, believe me. one day there wil be a blower under the hood. and the plan is to have everything under the decklid. definately a sleeper

yeah no turbo that ting will ruin your life lol!!!!

Congrats on the new purchase Mike! Bring it down to Warner Robins next weekend and get it on the dyno. (and seriously, get them tins in place)

lol, yeah. i'll definataly be making a few changes. the main one being to take that EMPI POS fan shroud off, for an OE german shroud. as well as getting all the tins in place. other wise, i'll prolly do a little cleaning up, a little re-wiring, and fixing the little things that don't work (gas gauge, interior light, door handles (don't have a key for the door handles, so i have to keep it unlocked ), one brake light out, etc.)

WELL YOUR GING TO HAVE THAT FIX IN KNOW TIME, YOUR HANDY WITH THE TOOLS SO EASY WEEKEND JOB RIGHT

Mike I got some '68 Door handles with a key. How about $10?