you must be just having a bad run🥲
we have 5 vws🤪
over the past 6 years I had to replace a couple of clutch cables, points and condenser, the odd battery, aa few globes , a rocker stud and shaft that is the part of the tappets. and we ran out of petrol 🤪
I replaced a lot of stuff that wasn't broken , like taken a perfectly good vw motor out and replacing it with a subaru 🤪🤪
see link below🤪
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car forums. where a lot of peoples good intentions end up taking a good old car off the road forever never ever to see the road again. 🥲
Always done everything on my cars... been about 8 or 9 years since I was given my first car to play with as a teenager, a '79 Mini Moke... followed shortly by an '82 VH Commodore. I did what I knew how to do with them, but really got into mechanical stuff when I did an Aero course in year 11 and 12, and then bought my first Kombi after I finished year 12... that's what really got me into cars.
Me dads an AME from way back so he always had a clue about engines, knows his stuff about cars as well as planes. Tought me the basics of what I needed to know, we rebuilt the top end of my Kombi motor when I bought it as it had a burnt valve and a cracked head and then yeh... since then I just decided I'd just learn more things, would trawl the forums, read workshop manuals from cover to cover, try doing more things, cock things up occasionally, learn from my cock ups and work out how to fix them, learnt did a pre-apprentice course just cos I could, learnt to weld off a guy in the course who used to be a panelbeater, decided to start doing all me own bodywork too, started an apprenticeship... gave that up when my life turned to crap, but anyway.
So yeh, here I am today, wouldn't say I am an expert, definitely not a qualified tradesman, but I know enough that the only thing Ive sent a car to a workshop for aside from wheel allignments and tyres is to have a snapped rocker cover bolt drilled out of a Falcon head.... cos im stupid and overtightened it, and couldnt be bothered drilling it out. I've had my Kombis' engines and gearboxes out kajillions of times myself, changed a clutch on an XF, an engine in another, done head gaskets, rebuilt my own carbs, done all my own tuning, servicing, adjustments, points, timing, cam belts, suspension work, brakes, changed springs in cars, fitted zorsts, waterpumps, electrical stuff... you name it, chances are Ive done it.
Cant say I love doing all of it... for instance I'd rather never have to change a clutch, but at the end of the day, I'm too povo to afford the hundreds or thousands of dollars that all these things would otherwise cost to have done professionally, but alas they need to be done all the same, so the only course of action is to buy some good tools, get some knowledge, develop some wisdom and just dive in and get covered in grease. 🙂
At the moment I'm about to start building a Ford 250 with all new bearings, pistons, rods, EF crank, pretty warm cam, solid lifters, studs, Aussiespeed manifold and throttlebody injection, with a C1 supercharger.... Gonna be my first full engine build, and I intend on doing it all myself. You can never stop learning they say... 👍
1976 Kombi Trakka camper, "Buttercup"... driver.
1976 Beluxe Microbus, "Saphir"... resto.
1974 Kombi panelvan, "George"... shed.
1974 Superbug, "Schmeetle"... resto.
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yep, all the work was done by me exept the snd blasting, about 6 months of rust repair, new heater channel rear arpon, bumper support bracket, front firewall and various other little peices.. just about ready to start on the chassis, that should be heaps of fun 🤓
im 15
