Aircooled VW South Africa

Messy yes
Work like a bomb YESSSSSS
Dumb ass tests on thumb and nearly takes all the skin off
What was I thinking
Luckely only the drifsells in the pipe and not a full blown stream

This is going to be fun
Got some plastic sheeeting from the tunnels roof that will transform the workshoppe into something looking like a murder sceen from a Tarintino movie
Hopefully will catch enough of the sand to be reused

Hey Warwick

Make sure you wear a mask & protective clothing - that sand stings like a galeforce wind on Strand Beach

Nice job so far

Life's a Blast...

I bet Warwick named the blaster Sandy and may be the best B.. J.. he would ever get

Sandblasting is like having sex on the beach - never can get the sand out of the cracks

You okes crack me up man
Just wanna get my pots andd pans clean !!

like Jurgen said..."wear a mask"
also best you tape up any exposed orifices, the sand worms it's way in everywhere.....
once in the rhythm you just want to blast stuff...anything !

Well played around with the Manx today
Got a beeg wire cup and attached to the big grinder and spun away
Works wonders on all that mukky stuff but seems will have to get blasting for the rusty bits
Last pick shows wire brush and then sand blasting arera on the left
Gonna hire a bigger compressor for the weekend and get a wack of sand and hope for a good day outside

Found chassis Number
just wondering what year
SF 1102894474
Anyone

Going to need a good wash tonight

Back end

By lowlightwarwick at 2012-09-05

Front end

By lowlightwarwick at 2012-09-05

Some sandy play

By lowlightwarwick at 2012-09-05

Brush up top and blasting below


By lowlightwarwick at 2012-09-05

Wife been in Bella Bella for the week so I get one of Seans days in the shed 13 hrs
Started early with the stripping of the bugggy front end
Rented a beeg compressor for some sand blasting

Unluckely only one bag of sand so had to keep on gathering up and sieving
Good day made some progress
This pan is realy going to take some time

Got all the other bits soaking overnight so some early cleaning in the morning before the family comes for lunch
Got some spareparts from the donar pan maybe some cloning of bits like link pins etc
Will see whats in the best shape
seems there is also some wear on the needle bearings - could be a mission to get the old ones out
Looking forward to a wash and a beer or 2 now


By lowlightwarwick at 2012-09-08

Jeyes

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Self

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Done

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For the Morning

By lowlightwarwick at 2012-09-08

Nice progress there Warwick.

I had to get my skippers ticket this weekend, so unfortunately no kombi progress.

sean wrote:I had to get my skippers ticket this weekend, so unfortunately no kombi progress.

you don't need a skippers ticket to drive a bus Sean !!

good work Warwick !...bring on some bus progress....

All in good time
Just waiting for some goodies from the other side of the sea
seems shift to get the buggy going first
Then can get stuck into the bus - need to be done for George 2013 !
Jaques did you come right with those electric okes ??

Hi there Warwick

Don't you know to ask "King Juergen the 1st & Only"

It is a 1970 You Chop

Nice work so far

Did those wheel cylinder kits fit

Es

Jurgen Grand Slam wrote:Hi there Warwick

Don't you know to ask "King Juergen the 1st & Only"

It is a 1970 You Chop

Nice work so far

Did those wheel cylinder kits fit

Es

Good morning to you too
I thought TJOP went on the B.R.A.A.I and is that 1970 green bottles hanging on the wall

471 s cool
244 s too small
will bring it back

Whats Happened???

Adrian got you by the short and curlys for doing to much private work instead of picking apples????

Hr - thats why this stuff happens at this time of the day
Need a bit of ZEN time befor we get into the fields for the apples and get them Tjooks nice and fat for you people out there

Still awaiting the arrival of the sand then can get that pan done and primed
With the little that is left will be sorting out the backing plates for the rear
Have had some fum with some porting tools and refurbed the masters and slaves
New rubber kits all round
For those of you that have a local near you these porting brushes are the business
Them barrels are rifle clean
cant show picks as there is too much flashback
Hope to get the front tubes all cleaned out -bit of the blast sand got in there -then put the whole lot together again - got new bearings for the front yesterday- just wheel as the needles seem fine -but will have a closer inspection when all cleaned up
Drained the gearbox oil and thank goodness no bits fell out like with the Split - oil also nice and clean
So this will just get a top-up with some new axle boots

have also been helping Adrians son put his Mini Moke back together
Has just got his brakes back from Grand Slam

Slide port brush in then attach to you airtool

By lowlightwarwick at 2012-09-12

Master and fronts done - now will do the rears


By lowlightwarwick at 2012-09-12

All the drums have been skimmed and new pads - from the very near Grand Slam Team

The more I think about it - the stopping power needs to be top as with the power to weight ratio the Manx will be a cool little ride

Off I go to go and blast some metal