Aircooled VW South Africa

She needs a bit of work on the body and an oil leak but that's something I'm sure we all are familiar with . Got a weber carb, branches, new wiring, 17" mags, body kit and bucket seats

Nice

I like them seats !

Thanks haha

Hi

I noticed two other Beetles in your photos, are all of them yours?

The red one belongs to my father. If you recall pick n pay had a competition about 10 years ago which my dad was fortunate enough to win. The black one came with mine, the guy I bought it from wanted to get rid of it so 2 for the price of 1.

Remeber to change out the headlights before going to the testing ground, they fail the cars because of those. My dads transit and morris was failed becuase of the headlights. Changed normals in for the test and swopped them back afterwords

Thanks will do. The guy who owned it before me ruined the car. Been about 4 months just to get everything working like it should. When we went to fetch it on our way back when you hit about 110 it won't go any faster and after a couple of seconds we were sitting in a ball of smoke. Haven't been able to get it on the road to see if that's sorted.

Had the same problem driving my 1500 the 1st time. The box had no oil in it and was heated so much that the oil on the outside of the box started to smoke replaced the gearbox at the end of the day that one was kaput.

And most of the engine's seals were gasket maker so it literally pi#&ed oil. Replaced all of those, new oil and everything. Just have to set the clearance on the rockers and hopefully that will work. On another note..... The battery is fully charged and everything but it sounds like the starter has trouble turning the engine, almost like there's too much compression. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

Incorrect timing, rockers to tight or starter bushes wornout. Start with setting your valve clearences and check your timing. If still tight check your starters cables and earth strap on the chassis/gbox and the starter bushes.

Appreciate it. Going to do that as soon as I can take a break from studying haha being in matric and working on a car isn't easy.

SHADOWBLADEKING wrote:Appreciate it. Going to do that as soon as I can take a break from studying haha being in matric and working on a car isn't easy.

Know the feeling did my 1st beetle in matric during exams as well. It was a 63.

Haha and gettinng the funds needed are a pain as well but we all know that in today's economy.

SHADOWBLADEKING wrote:The red one belongs to my father. If you recall pick n pay had a competition about 10 years ago which my dad was fortunate enough to win. The black one came with mine, the guy I bought it from wanted to get rid of it so 2 for the price of 1.

Hi Bro load some Pics of that Red cabrio pls
I really thought most of them were pranged etc
I actually built them for PnP and bought the 1st one we built that was my Wives and was given to
East Rand mall Pnp and we bought it back a year ago

I have a mate that has one of those pick n pay bugs it looks exactly like the red one exact same wheels even says pnp in the speedo cluster