What did you do on your car today?

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John Alves
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Today I decided to make individual hand brake levers for my buggy, (diff lock) works better than expected, now I can lock the spinning wheel and transfer
power to other wheel, hand brake works in the normal way, but individual levers work in opposite direction. I must find some nice round handles to finish it off
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No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.

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So started trying to do some bumper repairs
First started with the over spray on the bumper steps on blue
Before
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Some elbow crease and they turned out better

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Started swearing when I saw the bumper again and tackled it with a new grinder and old hammer

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You can clearly see steel was a lot cheaper then as they build this thing up

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Welding was functional

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Finally got the radiator off

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Then had to get these grinder off being careful to preserve as much of the bumper as I could

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And after all that here is what I could salvage

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Will see what we can do to get this welded again and filled in

The brackets also had been strengthened to hold the weight of the radiator so will make a plan with those as well

Well that is what I did to blue today

Thanks for reading


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Why not move the radiator now you have it off and ask Pierre at bugger transmissions to show you how to do it.

The bus will look much better with the hidden radiator and clean nose.

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Herman. Dankie. Die radiator kom af gaan terug aircooled toe. Raak sommer weer van voor af kwaad oor die radiator voor op die bumper. Hulle het die blerrie ding op geneuk. Meer skade as goed


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Fitted my engine with some help from the VW roadrunners. Adjusted my pedals yesterday - not fun job. Will post tonight on my build thread
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New clutch cable, made a bushing out of nylon to prevent future cable failure. And gave the old girl a wash.

A good day
any thing easy probably isn't worth doing.
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stew 89 wrote: Sun May 13, 2018 7:27 pm New clutch cable, made a bushing out of nylon to prevent future cable failure. And gave the old girl a wash.

A good day
Hi Stew, can you explain more about this ? is this bushing at the front or rear ?

Cheers
by fig » Mar 26, 2018
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Hi Stew, can you explain more about this ? is this bushing at the front or rear ?

Cheers
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So at the rear where the cable exits metal tube and enters the flex tube that goes up to the clutch lever. Right at the junction between the two. in my case the metal tube has had quite a lot of ware from the cable resulting in a sharp edge that has been chewing through the cable. I made a round bushing that fits in the flex tube junction and snugly around the cable. the hope is that this will stop the cable from getting stuck in the sharp metal tube.

Its just a round bushing with a pie shape cut out of it to slide over the cable. I made two if you want ill take a pick of it.
any thing easy probably isn't worth doing.
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Ah thanks man, I get it :hangloose:
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NOTHING ..........

Absolutely nothing .... :shock:

Has the 1st year birthday party with my granddaughter..... :wink:

:drunks:

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replaced headlight bulb and polished Ghia for an upcoming Matric Dance outing.
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No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.

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Fitted tyres on the newly painted front rims....
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This is what 175/50/15 look like on steelies
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Un-covered him and started him for the first time in a few months.. I love my Kombi.. So reliable..
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Re: What did you do on your car today?

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Busy with the piping & cooler
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Next on to electrics,......check out the "fit for purpose spanner"

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