Aircooled VW South Africa

hitlers revenge wrote:With the Help of Ron (all they way in PNG) I pulled one of my busses reduction boxes apart. Are they supposed to be full of grease? Why then have they got Oil fillers and drainers?????????

Removed the barn doors and serviced the hinges. In the process loosing one of the plates which the countershunk bolts bolt onto. The plate fell down the vertical channel. Had to cut a hole in the channel and make up a new plate. !@#$$%^%%$##@@

It's supposed to be very clean inside and then it takes 250ml of gear oil. Now I know nothing of gear oils, auto, GL (?) 4, GL (?) 5 but there was a thread about that in the forum somewhere.

If you'd told me you were taking door hinges off, I would'a told you to keep one bolt in place at all times, !! (I learnt that same way you did, !!)

4 dayz...

where do I start. Reduction boxes off, gearbox out, drive shafts/prop shafts out.

Still block-sanding the front end mess
Only manage about 20 minutes each afternoon before I'm a trembling, wheezing wreck!

Coop....dude thats alot of work. Try using extra light microfiller next time, much easier to sand down and its not heavy like the one you`re using.

drained my engine oil. Removed deep sump
removed oil pressure relief valve and polished it to make it fit without sticking, had to end up taking 0.05mm off its diameter to make it move freely without sticking
re-installed all except the oil.

Then removed the left rear wheel, braked and hub.
Left gearbox oil draining into sumpy through bearing.
new seal installed in bearing cover - to be fitted tomorrow

Not a matter of what I 'did on the car' but more like 'what I had ON its roof'!

Went to go and fetch the HW2 roll cage yesterday with the Khaki Cruiser. Just thought of it - it is the second time the roll cage have been (moving) on an air cooled, first on Craffie, and now on the Squareback hopefully next time it will be mounted on the buggy

I took mine for a drive.

Pine wrote:Not a matter of what I 'did on the car' but more like 'what I had ON its roof'!

Went to go and fetch the HW2 roll cage yesterday with the Khaki Cruiser. Just thought of it - it is the second time the roll cage have been (moving) on an air cooled, first on Craffie, and now on the Squareback hopefully next time it will be mounted on the buggy

LOL looks like you've given it horns

Some work done on my 69 SC over the weekend and it needs it.
Fitted a set of good second hand seats.
Fitted a new speedo cable.
Rear bumper got some attention as it was a little out of shape.
Rebuilt the carb, fitted WBX ignition, pulled the cheapy Kadron exhaust, and fitted a good second hand peeshoter exhaust, done some re-wiring in the engine compartment, no BS, must have found an extra 10 ponnies, it's pulling so much better, and does 120 no problem.
It's been nice and warm the past few evenings, so back in the garage again, after a couple of months layoff.
SC motor is out, genny fan cracked at the nut, caught it just before it let go (lucky me).
Doing a doghouse conv. oil cooler now on, the single port cooler was leaking - bad. The whole engine is covered in oil & grime, will get a good clean on Saturday, when I have some help to drag it outside.
Tried to fix the tresure chest door only to F-it up more (for another day).
Got a glove box cover on, tried to change both indicator lenses in front, one of the backings just fell apart the moment I put a screw driver to it, (anyone got a lowlight bay RHS indidator backing?) if not I will be doing the Pratley steel thing
Adjusted the brakes on the left side and fitted 2 of the EMPI 5's.
If everything goes to plan it should be at CITP, some way to go but as usual I will be flat out for the next few days.

Tony Z wrote:I took mine for a drive

AND???????? Did it go to your liking.....

or is it back in the workshop?

hitlers revenge wrote:

Tony Z wrote:I took mine for a drive

AND???????? Did it go to your liking.....

or is it back in the workshop?

of course its back in the workshop

drove well but I still have plenty things I want to do in the next few days... new carb linkage needs fitting as version 3 of this one still doesnt reach full throttle
ass squats so low in first gear that it feels like my exhaust will scrape... but otherwise it goes well enough for now

I tried my best to get my 58" to CITP but allas its not done, i will be going in it but still waiting for followers from Scat so the 2.7 type4 motor is not in.... the disc's are on the "build" gearbox is in wiring is sorted narrowed beam is in and Fuchs so almost there but not yet... out of all the work im loving this the best ! the chromer totally stuffed up the hinge so i'l still fix that but all in all i think it came out pretty sweet

Nothing wrong with that! Lekkerrrrrr
And you can't get parking tickets

Work on the single cab continues, modded the carb so it can run with an alternator, the engine got a light clean to get most of the grime off but still needs more work, organised a good used roof lining but not going in just yet. Removed all the broken engine compartment seals, new ones ready to be fitted, engine bay will need a good clean first.
Found a long misplaced (last saw it about 5 years ago) bracket so that a can fit a beetle engine block into a early bay, ie: engine carrier bracket. Had some carb spray back fire into my eyes, I will not reapeat the language when that happened.

I fitted the new carb linkage yesterday. Amazes me that a linkage kit made by the same company that makes the manifolds and for a generic carb, still doesnt fit. Hex bar was too long, one linkage arm didnt clear the weber throttle arm and the other arm doesnt clear the carb... some supplied bolts didnt match the threads they were supposed to fit into. And after final assembly, I have 7 nyloc nuts left over. 7??? If it was 8, I would say its for the filer bases which I used my original nuts for..... anyway, its on now, just the air filters to go.