Aircooled VW South Africa

Tony Z wrote: BTW, 5 gears = 4 fwd and 1 reverse

You had me there for a moment, you clown

I knew I would catch at least one person

finally fitted the lexan windows,and almost had the circuit i designed to automaticly switch on the lights at night or when it rains or fog,ect. alla merc style. but then true to dubster style nothing goes as planed and i break off the one legs of the only light detecting resistor a.k.a ldr,i have,tommorow taking off drums to have them skimmed and relined...then the buggy should be on the road again...

Since u in pmb, who is doin da work 4 u? i am up nonsuch rd.

Me,myself and i...just having the brake drums skimmed and shoes relined at a place called brake safe...obviously cant do that myself,haha...

I duct Taped it had to just patch up while i get my new boots from the UK, just need to keep dirt out for a while so i dont wreck my steering rack.
Check out these discs while we at it, ventilated cross drilled with Brembo Pads...

PS, its a What did you do on your car thread, not a what did you do on your ACVW car thread

Put a battery in the new DC and took it for a spin round the neighbourhood yesterday

Took Bobbie for the first run from Strand to Paarl and back.....about 150km and used over 20 litres of petrol....

Engine in... engine out, gearbox mount bolts hitting flywheel, engine out
grind bolts
engine in, kaefer cup brace hitting exhausts... engine out - remove keafer cup brace. Swear a few hundred times.
engine in
car falls off jacks - quickly push car back up - no damage.
rear brakes on
Wheels on
tighten wheel bolts, car falls again this time, need to jack car up
torque castle nuts
push car out of garage and back in to line it up again
theorise about how to remount kaefer cup brace.

Even had Vader come around for moral support

totally removed kaefer cup brace after giving up hop in finding a way to have it fit.... will try again some other time.
installed radio
mocked up all oil piping, got oil lines made and fitted.
Changed oil filter.
wired in thermo-switch and oil cooler fan
picked up a few other bits and bobs.

Tony Z wrote:Engine in... engine out, gearbox mount bolts hitting flywheel, engine out
grind bolts
engine in, kaefer cup brace hitting exhausts... engine out - remove keafer cup brace. Swear a few hundred times.
engine in
car falls off jacks - quickly push car back up - no damage.
rear brakes on
Wheels on
tighten wheel bolts, car falls again this time, need to jack car up
torque castle nuts
push car out of garage and back in to line it up again
theorise about how to remount kaefer cup brace.

Even had Vader come around for moral support

Trestles?

Tony Z wrote:Engine in... engine out, gearbox mount bolts hitting flywheel, engine out
grind bolts
engine in, kaefer cup brace hitting exhausts... engine out - remove keafer cup brace. Swear a few hundred times.
engine in
car falls off jacks - quickly push car back up - no damage.
rear brakes on
Wheels on
tighten wheel bolts, car falls again this time, need to jack car up
torque castle nuts
push car out of garage and back in to line it up again
theorise about how to remount kaefer cup brace.

Even had Vader come around for moral support

So i'm not the only one then

Always fun when that happens 10 seconds after you crawled out from under it. Guess those to whom it happened earlier aren't in a position to post about it........

I cleaned my black steering wheel as I am going to remove the ivory one for a restore, also buying the ivory/white storks from Muderick and restoring both items. Going to also get some globes all round, need to get beetle ready for 75th anniversary thingy.

The 58 officially left the garage after 7-8 months on non action, ate up 2 sets of points in about 20 km's and went like crap, fitted a WBX dizzy, ----- BIG SMILE ----- it goes like stink, so much for the original look with the points dizzy (threw that onto the scrap heap). Motor sounds so cool idling
New decals & bonnet badge fitted, left door scrappers and glass fitted and working after much swearing, now for the door pannel & seat instalation.
Adjusted brakes all round, found the reserve tap leaking I think !!!
Some trim fitted.
Got to check out oil sender its leaking

It looks as if it's going to make it to fig's camp out this year.