What did you do to your volkswagen today?

DiggerD wrote:

Grifspop wrote:Went out and looked at a 1968 Ghia that I think I'm going to buy

I didn't know Jack had his ghia up for sale.......... Seriously tho, I hope it is a runner so you can drive up in a VW on Thursdays finally!!

Nope, this one's been sitting since 04 and needs a front clip

Put the heads back on and looked all over for the feeler gauges to adjust the valves. No luck. I'll pick up a new set tomorrow.

So I spent about two hours with a bottle of Simple Green just cleaning up the engine compartment so it'll look good when I put it back together.

i had the cops come and do an inspection so i can get Bertha registered!

finaly got my motor back in my bus hope to get it wired back up and runing tonight

drewBAKER wrote:i had the cops come and do an inspection so i can get Bertha registered!

Glad they came by at your request- not you s.o.b. neighbors! You road ready?

DiggerD wrote:Got the new clips on the throwout bearing, engine is back in with new tin & carb linkage. I painted the exhaust with some high-heat paint from Por-15, will have to see how it holds up. Just waiting for my wheel cylinders and I should be back on the road...

Is that coil wire setup going to work??

Grifspop wrote:

DiggerD wrote:Got the new clips on the throwout bearing, engine is back in with new tin & carb linkage. I painted the exhaust with some high-heat paint from Por-15, will have to see how it holds up. Just waiting for my wheel cylinders and I should be back on the road...

Is that coil wire setup going to work??

Yeah its done, I used the long wire as the donor and it fit just right with a little extra. All I have left is to do is bleed the brakes and put the rear bumper back on. Thanks for the wire it probably saved me a day of running around town to get something that would work!

DiggerD wrote:

Grifspop wrote:

DiggerD wrote:Got the new clips on the throwout bearing, engine is back in with new tin & carb linkage. I painted the exhaust with some high-heat paint from Por-15, will have to see how it holds up. Just waiting for my wheel cylinders and I should be back on the road...

Is that coil wire setup going to work??

Yeah its done, I used the long wire as the donor and it fit just right with a little extra. All I have left is to do is bleed the brakes and put the rear bumper back on. Thanks for the wire it probably saved me a day of running around town to get something that would work!

Great!! One more item to check off the list

Don Hall wrote:

drewBAKER wrote:i had the cops come and do an inspection so i can get Bertha registered!

Glad they came by at your request- not you s.o.b. neighbors! You road ready?

yea my brake lights are being retarded but other than that she's ready

Found out the buggy makes a good submarine. Got caught out in a storm yesterday and had to pull in to a gas station with water up to the seats.

Went by Steves, and looked over my pair of 040 'boat anchors'. I'm very fortunate to have found a friend who had a pair of nearly identical heads, just collecting dust. Their already bored for 90.5's, and semi-hemi cut like the former heads. Getting some new valves installed, and putting my dual springs on 'em. Lucked out and found the replacements have larger valves too ( ) They should be ready by the time I scrape up some more cash.

Adjusted the valves and painted all the engine tin. once that all dried I should be good to go for reassembling everything tomorrow.

Joe wrote:Found out the buggy makes a good submarine. Got caught out in a storm yesterday and had to pull in to a gas station with water up to the seats.

I anticipated this and drilled drain holes in the floor of the bumblebuggy.

bumblebuggy wrote:

Joe wrote:Found out the buggy makes a good submarine. Got caught out in a storm yesterday and had to pull in to a gas station with water up to the seats.

I anticipated this and drilled drain holes in the floor of the bumblebuggy.

LOL!!!! That makes two of us. Left the house in the buggy heading to Cars&Coffee and got soak so turn around and got the bug. Then the sun came out lol!!! But it was fun hanging with the hotrods

I have the drain holes but as hard as it was raining half of the floor would have to be a drain hole.

drove the bus up to VA last Thurs about a 9 hour drive to camp with a bunch of other vw's. On the way up had to stop pretty quickly one time and it felt like I lost half of my brakes! Started pulling really bad, and half the stopping power. I knew I needed new pads so thought that I had lost one and continued on to the campout. Then about an hour away I started losing my fanbelt. Put a new one on and it would just pop-off. Oh well no stereo for the rest of the trip and just drove on the battery power. Get there and look at my brakes and they are fine, look up and the rust monster had got me. When I hit the brakes the front beam came apart!!! My lower torsion housing is free floating! OH CRAP! 400 miles from home and find this.... Well checked the belt issue and my dumb a$$ had put the pulley on backwards when I put the new alt in, so fix that and decide I am going to limp it home with the busted beam. So crawl all the way home, 11.5 hours pinching the seat with every noise and bump, and white knuckling the steering wheel the whole trip!!! Guess I know what I am doing this week, either putting in a new beam, or welding the crap outta the one in there now....Oh yeah, maybe new seat covers too, with all the tightening up they are not so pretty anymore!

Was this on the bus that you just finished redoing the interior?

Thats the one. But the front seats are still the old ones that were in it and are in pretty rough shape, thats on the list to do as well but my but needs to be safe before it gets the comfy treatment!

meinvw wrote:drove the bus up to VA last Thurs about a 9 hour drive to camp with a bunch of other vw's. On the way up had to stop pretty quickly one time and it felt like I lost half of my brakes! Started pulling really bad, and half the stopping power. I knew I needed new pads so thought that I had lost one and continued on to the campout. Then about an hour away I started losing my fanbelt. Put a new one on and it would just pop-off. Oh well no stereo for the rest of the trip and just drove on the battery power. Get there and look at my brakes and they are fine, look up and the rust monster had got me. When I hit the brakes the front beam came apart!!! My lower torsion housing is free floating! OH CRAP! 400 miles from home and find this.... Well checked the belt issue and my dumb a$$ had put the pulley on backwards when I put the new alt in, so fix that and decide I am going to limp it home with the busted beam. So crawl all the way home, 11.5 hours pinching the seat with every noise and bump, and white knuckling the steering wheel the whole trip!!! Guess I know what I am doing this week, either putting in a new beam, or welding the crap outta the one in there now....Oh yeah, maybe new seat covers too, with all the tightening up they are not so pretty anymore!

Wow!! Talk about lucky, that could have been real ugly if it decided to totally fall out at hwy. speed.....

i cant believe you drove it home! scary man

zabo wrote:i cant believe you drove it home! scary man

X2.
I was white nuckled enough driving the Jap Bug home from Birmingham (almost 3 hours at 60 mph...) but with your problem I wold have needed new seats for another reason...
KC

ASBug wrote:

zabo wrote:i cant believe you drove it home! scary man

X2.
I was white nuckled enough driving the Jap Bug home from Birmingham (almost 3 hours at 60 mph...) but with your problem I wold have needed new seats for another reason...
KC

Pretty sure my reasons are the same!!!! Think i sucked a few springs up in there as well so maybe new seats too!

No good, just the bad and the ugly...

Ouch.

Holy Shit . Thats crazy. i can't believe that actually held together

Wow glad you made it back!