What did you do to your volkswagen today?

DiggerD wrote:

fluxcap wrote:About 5 days ago, I tried contacting a seller on thesamba for some fresh air deflectors http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=741446, but I guess he doesn't really want the money, cause he never got back in touch with me??? Anyways, decided to go to home depot and bought a 12"x18" piece of sheetmetal and went to town making my own. Here is the trial fit. Gonna trim it down a little more and round of the edges like the one in the ad, and then paint it to match the fresh air box. Took it for a test spin and it's an amazing difference. Actually had to move the main front flap lever to the first notch, and then put the front/rear selector to about 10% front and 90% rear to get it where it wasn't blowing what's left of my hair away. Total cost was $4 and the sheet of metal is probably big enough to make two sets.

That's funny that you posted this, I had a set I got from Chad about a year ago and finally got around to installing them the other night. Those adjustable ones are awesome tho!!

Got my ghetto homemade version of the adjustable one finished up a few days ago. Well, I guess it isn't finished, cause I still plan to paint it to match the fresh air box, but it's been test fit and works well!

Worked on Moto this past week. Was going to the beach but I stayed home and worked on the Bus. I have a cool wife, I'm sure she enjoyed a few days away from the crazy!

Anyways still got a shit load of stuff to do but some how some way it will get done. No pics to busy to snap any!

Got t boned in the vert yesterday about 5 my friend will "geib " in the pass seat. Were both pretty much ok. Wish I could say it about the vert

Man that sucks! That was a sharp looking vert. Whats the plans for it?

Hopefully fix it. She is my baby.

sploval53 wrote:Hopefully fix it. She is my baby.

X2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ouch!!! So glad you guys are okay.

Ouch must have been a bad match up !! Hate that

sploval53 wrote: Got t boned in the vert yesterday about 5 my friend will "geib " in the pass seat. Were both pretty much ok. Wish I could say it about the vert

Oh shit!!! damn that sucks. that was such a nice car. hope you get it running again. i hope the other guys insurance will pay for it (assumin it was his fault and he had insurance, lol). good luck bro.

so saturday i'm just cruisin along, and all of a sudden i hear KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK. snapped the crank in half. I knew the it was inevitable, tho, so no biggie. had a spare 40 horse lyin around (thanks Bryce!!!!), swapped a few parts over, had to mod the hell out of an adaptor plate to get a 34pict on it. started up great, no issues. only thing i couldn't figure out was it seems someone had put some brand new bosch platinum plugs, but they were only in hand tight. thought that was wierd, lol. also it had a stepped crank. the only way to get my 12V flywheel on was to stack a shit load of metal and paper crank gaskets i had to make up the extra space. it worked, but of course has like 1/8'' of play. so i'm not expecting the flywheel to hold up too long, lol. but it runs great now. gotta admit, that 40 horse is torquier the i thought it would be. i'm glad i bought a motorhome to tow the bug to BAP tho. that 40 horse would have just pissed me off the whole way up there, assuming the flywheel would have even stayed attached .

If all.goes well orange peel will be back on the rd better and bader than ever

my generator light was acting up - red light getting brighter with higher revs. I went to take a look and saw a ton of sparks flying out of it.
Not sure what was going on brushes still looked good but it was a bit hard to spin so maybe bearings?

Anyway found a deal on ebay old stock rebuilt 6v gr11x & bosch regulator for 125.
Shipped from miami and got here the next day.

just finished getting it back in, working great.

zabo wrote:my generator light was acting up - red light getting brighter with higher revs. I went to take a look and saw a ton of sparks flying out of it.
Not sure what was going on brushes still looked good but it was a bit hard to spin so maybe bearings?

Anyway found a deal on ebay old stock rebuilt 6v gr11x & bosch regulator for 125.
Shipped from miami and got here the next day.

just finished getting it back in, working great.

Note to self: Next time you have your 14 year-old daughter install a sending unit gasket be sure to double check that she screwed it down tightly before you top off the gas tank.

Cleaned a few more pounds of grease and grime from the bus while I removing the center pin from the beam. Got the old pin and bushings out. Tomorrow I'll get the new bushings in, ream them, and install the new pin. It needed to be replaced, but after being under there and taking a good look, I'm not sure it'll help my sloppy steering. Really need to get a new drag link. One of the ends on the current drag link has a TON of slop in it. Doubt anybody local has one, but I'll call around in the morning and see if I can get lucky.

fluxcap wrote:Cleaned a few more pounds of grease and grime from the bus while I removing the center pin from the beam. Got the old pin and bushings out. Tomorrow I'll get the new bushings in, ream them, and install the new pin. It needed to be replaced, but after being under there and taking a good look, I'm not sure it'll help my sloppy steering. Really need to get a new drag link. One of the ends on the current drag link has a TON of slop in it. Doubt anybody local has one, but I'll call around in the morning and see if I can get lucky.

Jack Denton, (jacks68ghia) had a new one for sale a while back. You might send him a pm and see if he still has it.

fluxcap wrote:Cleaned a few more pounds of grease and grime from the bus while I removing the center pin from the beam. Got the old pin and bushings out. Tomorrow I'll get the new bushings in, ream them, and install the new pin. It needed to be replaced, but after being under there and taking a good look, I'm not sure it'll help my sloppy steering. Really need to get a new drag link. One of the ends on the current drag link has a TON of slop in it. Doubt anybody local has one, but I'll call around in the morning and see if I can get lucky.

I think I have a few, will look and see if interested. Maybe could find a shuttle to get it to ya

Thanks Jerome. I actually searched the Samba classifieds this morning and saw that Jack had one listed that he had bought for his splitty that he sold. He's meeting up with me tomorrow morning so I can get it from him. Thanks though!

Got my front bumper stripped and primed. Just did a quickie job on it so it's still got a bumps and lumps here and there, but once it's all one color, it'll look tons better than the rusty covered beast it was before.

Got the new bushings in for the center pin and reamed them to spec. Thanks Bryce and Glenn for the use of the tools for this job. They both worked great!
Not gonna put the pin in until I get the new drag link installed. So that'll have to wait until tomorrow morning. My dual circuit master cylinder kit got here a couple of days ago, so I'm about to get started swapping it out.

Drove my Bay today. So cool.

Awesome Bob.

Drove Kermit to work today.
Painted part of the body white on Kermie this weekend.
KC

Bob. Pics or it didn't happen lol

Well my wife found out what was causing the rattle sound I was having at higher revs.

she found a crushed tranny mount in the driveway.

rpm750 wrote:Drove my Bay today. So cool.

very nice

peregrine67 wrote:Well my wife found out what was causing the rattle sound I was having at higher revs.
she found a crushed tranny mount in the driveway.

urethane