What did you do to your volkswagen today?

Installed the new draglink in the bus. So much better! The old one was pretty much toasted!

Dropped the engine and swapped out the generator for an alternator.

welded up a broke clutch cable tube mounting bracket on my bus.

Drove Warbird to work yesterday. 1/2 way there I flicked on the windshield wipers to get a little mist off. Nothing happened. Made it to work without any issues and decided to mess with it at lunch. Found the switch to be a little loose so I tightened it down thinking it may be a gounding issue. Nothing. Checked fuse. Nothing. Cleaned fuse terminal. Nothing. Checked all the wires at the motor/switch. Nothing. Even checked the wire to the coil. Nothing. Gave up and went back into the office. After work I hop in the car and start it up. After letting it warm up for a minute, I put on my seatbelt and close the door. Right as the door slams, the wipers start working. Im a genius!  

I love it when things just fix themselves!!!  

I was going to pull an old pan with a good engine I have out of the woods. I yanked and I pulled with my little tractor and found out the left rear brake is locked. I did get it half way across the drive way when I decided to go to plan B (tomorrow morn. when it is cooler) Mrs. Slim is not a happy camper. I'll let you know how this turns out later. SlimJim

Got started on a little more surgery.  Lowers corners are both pretty crunchy, but the drivers side also had some nasty rot around the rear decklid.  The other week a nice corner came up on the samba so I got it to use as donor metal.

Started cutting some of the rot out today.  Rot was on the outer skin and half of the inner brace.


No turning back now


Donor metal, hope to get it cut and patched in this week.

Cut 2" out of the seat mounts in the Allison!
Now the windshield frame is out of my direct line of sight and my head won't bump the roll bar.
It has Mazda truck seats (comfy), and standard early beetle frames. I cut the uprights out and kept the 3/4" gain on the tracks. to keep seat flat as it slides back. I also got some white vinyl to make a bikini top for it.
Gonna make it adaptable by sewing in some Industrial Velcro to add Doors and sides later.
KC

fluxcap wrote:Got started on a little more surgery.  Lowers corners are both pretty crunchy, but the drivers side also had some nasty rot around the rear decklid.  The other week a nice corner came up on the samba so I got it to use as donor metal.

Started cutting some of the rot out today.  Rot was on the outer skin and half of the inner brace.


No turning back now


Donor metal, hope to get it cut and patched in this week.

Nice job on getting into that one Eric. That is a tough repair and you are luck that inner is no worse than that. Look forward to seeing the finished product.

Yeah it was kind of a pain just to get where I'm at now. There are actually four different pieces of metal that overlap right there along that edge so it was slow going making sure I only cut the pieces I needed to. Going to be tricky, but I think I have a do-able plan in my head.

Installed some LED tail lights in the Oval. Huge difference from left to right. Feels much safer to drive at night.


Parking light LED on Right



Brake/Turn LED on Right

Installed my new Auto stick Starter on the bug. Completed it in about 45 min. Alot faster than 2 hours in the super bug.

Got the locked wheel free and moved the pan to the spot where I can work on it. Pulled the engine and tomorrow will pull the front beam. Mrs. Slim is happy I got it moved! SlimJim

jim conner wrote:Got the locked wheel free and moved the pan to the spot where I can work on it. Pulled the engine and tomorrow will pull the front beam. Mrs. Slim is happy I got it moved!  SlimJim

Atleast it had a happy ending!!  

Picked up two new sets of wheels......
Sears folding bike

and uh....this one?  What was I thinking? lol

Rad bike

Yeah!

reinforced the c-notch on my bus

Adjusted the valves and checked the oil. Boring.

I'm doing that next week.

Put the center console in.

ordered new carb linkage for this.
anyone have any suggestions for something to plug the holes in the cylinder tins. i forgot to weld them up before i powder coated them  

what about some round vw emblem hat pins

Painted my beam and brake backing plates yesterday. Painted the stabilizing bar and control arms today then started reassembling it but it got to dark to see.