What did you do to your volkswagen today?

Spent yesterday at pull-a-part in Conley. Got some much needed parts including the final switch I need to finish my dash! Also scored a set of 4 Dan Gurney aluminum wheels, misc knobs and a fuse block.

those the 8 spoke gurneys? nice find

zabo wrote:those the 8 spoke gurneys? nice find

They were. Looked at them several times then finally decided to get them...glad I did. They'll look nice on my Square if I ever get started on it!

peregrine67 wrote:

callahan wrote:pulled that yucky old headliner out last night, going to clean off all that insulation and glue this week maybe throw some paint, we'll see how it looks cleaned up
i can't decide if i want to do a bamboo matt headliner or sticker it up, thoughts?

I think I'm gonna put stickers all over the peeled headliner in my Westy. Rather than clutter up the bumper I'd put the bumper stickers on the headliner.

Someone on here at one time had a free westy head liner. Meinvw? I'll look through the archives.

New plugs, 8mm wires, cap and rotor......
"Houston...we have power (again) !"
Old Yeller is feeling good today- I'll race you to the top of that hill over there......

71_georgia_beetle wrote:Someone on here at one time had a free westy head liner. Meinvw? I'll look through the archives.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll search for it.

peregrine67 wrote:

71_georgia_beetle wrote:Someone on here at one time had a free westy head liner. Meinvw? I'll look through the archives.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll search for it.

That might have been me, had a couple. A friend swapped out his for the really nice one, might still have his here, good shape just was bare wood. I have a pretty nice set-up in mine that is a light colored wood, maybe finished birch? Might le it go if you could supply a few similar panels. Going to cut my roof out to open the interior up and was going to cut these to match, but as nice as they are and already cut to fit might be better to pass them along and just make ones to fit when finished.

washed the 73.

installed the 7mm shifter and a quick shift kit in the 59. tested some custom paint for it as well. still not sure about a muddy brown color. looks like L 73 chestnut brown.

meinvw wrote:

peregrine67 wrote:

71_georgia_beetle wrote:Someone on here at one time had a free westy head liner. Meinvw? I'll look through the archives.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll search for it.

That might have been me, had a couple. A friend swapped out his for the really nice one, might still have his here, good shape just was bare wood. I have a pretty nice set-up in mine that is a light colored wood, maybe finished birch? Might le it go if you could supply a few similar panels. Going to cut my roof out to open the interior up and was going to cut these to match, but as nice as they are and already cut to fit might be better to pass them along and just make ones to fit when finished.

Mine is actually not all that bad. The vinyl has peeled off a little bit and the wood is exposed. But the wood looks good. I was considering just striping it all back. I'm more concerned with getting the engine in top shape right now.

Got pans put in the 68 over the weekend with the help of Joe and Johnny. And today got the rear shocks put on the 69 Baja.[img][/img][img][/img][img][/img][img][/img]

Looks great Mark. Master Joe on the welder?

yup...If you ever hear someone say "hey lets go and put new pans in that beetle cuz all the cool kids are doing it" don't listen to them...its just the evil VW devil trying to sucker you in to a weekend of cussing, sweating, and all out agony...

awwww....come on marc you know you had fun...

Just finished up the front disc brake conversion on the 69 Baja, still got a little bleeding left to do on the brakes but I will get that finished tomorrow.

Changed the oil and filter and put in some Marvel Mystery oil. Spent about half an hour and half a roll of aluminum tape trying to fix the hole in my rusty, rusty muffler. Let her run for about a half an hour just to see how much she'd smoke. Looked pretty got until she got warm and blew all the aluminum tape off. Then she smoked like crazy.
CRAP! I really hope I don't need to rebuild the engine. I'm gonna put a good muffler on and just keep running her a little bit each day and see how things go.

Replaced my deck lid. Humbug is now tricolor - a yellow front driver side fender and a red deck lid. Also got up under the front to take a look at the steering box and realized that it's going to be a pain in the ass to replace.

Don't forget to check that fuel filter, lol . About 3 days after BAP, my car started running funny. i go to check the fuel filter and its clogged, lol. guess i gotta pull the tank and clean it up.

smash wrote:Replaced my deck lid. Humbug is now tricolor - a yellow front driver side fender and a red deck lid. Also got up under the front to take a look at the steering box and realized that it's going to be a pain in the ass to replace.

nah. just lift the tank outta the way and the path is clear my friend.

New Lowered balljoints............Brakes

One last day of trying to talk myself out of doing a complete rebuild.
Checked the plugs. Cylinder 1 clean and dry. Cylinder 2 clean and dry. Cylinder 3 dripping with oil and crud. Cylinder 4 clean and dry.
Crawled underneath and noticed that their was even oil around the exhaust port of cylinder 3 too. The others were nice and dry.
Spent the rest of the day reading up about the differences between the type I and type IV engine before I try to pull this this out and start breaking her down. The last time I dropped an engine out of a VW was my 67 beetle and that was in 1983. So with that in mind if anybody has any free time...

peregrine67 wrote:One last day of trying to talk myself out of doing a complete rebuild.
Checked the plugs. Cylinder 1 clean and dry. Cylinder 2 clean and dry. Cylinder 3 dripping with oil and crud. Cylinder 4 clean and dry.
Crawled underneath and noticed that their was even oil around the exhaust port of cylinder 3 too. The others were nice and dry.
Spent the rest of the day reading up about the differences between the type I and type IV engine before I try to pull this this out and start breaking her down. The last time I dropped an engine out of a VW was my 67 beetle and that was in 1983. So with that in mind if anybody has any free time...

Getting ready to swap out engines in my 73. Throw on some overalls and come on over. Also have another engine I need to tear down, so if you want some practice!!

Sounds like with the low miles, and the length the engine sat since run that one of your rings might have stuck and broken. Which is a good thing, better than a bad head and a cheap repair over anything else.

Rebuilt my leaky wheel cylinder on the right front, next is the dual circuit MC upgrade!!

Dual circuit brakes, nice upgrade!!!

Yeah this last little incident was the deciding factor.......

drove it out of the garage and then about a total of 20 feet...so my dad could get the lawn mower out one of these days, i'll really get to drive it...