is that mig running on gas?
"A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage."
Adolf Hitler At opening of 1934 Berlin Auto Show
jjwebb123 wrote:is that mig running on gas?
Glad you love my thread. Closing plate hopefully goes on by the weekend
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The MIG is gassed. You can see the pipe coming out the back and the cylinder is hiding in the background.
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oh ok yeh thought that might have been it.
just thought you might have been using gasless wire thats all.
look forward to more posts.๐
"A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage."
Adolf Hitler At opening of 1934 Berlin Auto Show
if you are doing something serious engine wise, heck even if you are not, a kafer bar kit would help that rear chassis a lot, especially after you notched the horns for the cvs.
btw, keep up the good work. ๐ ... and get some gas for that mig... the difference is stunning.
pete wood wrote:if you are doing something serious engine wise, heck even if you are not, a kafer bar kit would help that rear chassis a lot, especially after you notched the horns for the cvs.
btw, keep up the good work. ๐ ... and get some gas for that mig... the difference is stunning.
Yea will maybe make a kafer cos sure don't have the readies for buying one. Even if I just link the horns to the shox towers that'll help with the engine weight.
As for the gas, it's in the background hiding but I'd never use gasless as anything from nasty to tricky to use
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So been busy fitting the Hookeys Closing panel up and fits a treat. Few piccies of rust painting etc
The plug welds are solid but messy cos I really don't know how people say welding upside down is the same as from the top or side cos gravity makes the molten metal drip down :confused:
Anyhow, slice the tops of em during the week and then grind the rest flush ๐
Once tied up I'll clean all the gasket area for painting and we are ready for sticking the pan back under the shell ๐
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So today I ha mostly been preppin and paintin the the seal area of the shell. Waiting for things to dry in this cold weather ain't been fun but hey I got there ๐
Just gotta glue the notches I made in the seal to make it fit better and then the pan is going under this week ๐ ๐ ๐
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I thought I'd taken a piccie of the beam on the pan but hadn't so thought do that tonite before the sun goes down at 5.30pm ๐
Also bought some 12mm thick rubber strip for making the body mount vibration pads. $20 for the rubber or $40+ for buying the proper pads ๐
Also having to clean up the Corollas water pump, all faces machined flat again, the starter needs new brushes and I need a new rear tyre. Think I'll be whoring myself this weekend again ๐
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Can someone please tell me whats wrong with these photos?
Only kidding ๐ The pan is now re-attached to the shell. Only took me 4.5hrs all by myself to line things up and what not ๐
However I do have to unbolt the rear and sides to lift the shell a bit cos I didn't managed to align the holes in the rear x-member rubbers. Oh and making your own mounting rubbers was piss easy and a darned sight cheaper. I have so much rubber left I could make around 40 more
A landmark day and much forwardness can be had now ๐
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Bit of picture worthiness progress. Have got the seat plates machined and already for spot welding in after check that they fitted properly.
And seat checked for fitment
Me beam bearing won't be here till early next week so just trying to keep things moving ๐
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Nice work!!!
Great to see things moving along.
Have you sat in it holding a steering wheel and gone, "Brmmm brmmmmmm!" yet? ๐๐๐๐
I know I would have.
Smiley ๐
If you said I was a Volkswagen man, you'd be right.
Smiley wrote:Nice work!!!
Great to see things moving along.
Have you sat in it holding a steering wheel and gone, "Brmmm brmmmmmm!" yet? ๐๐๐๐
I know I would have.
Smiley ๐
Oh indeed I have
๐ I've got those seats at just the right height too. Well comfy to sit in
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Figuring out the seat belt mounts now for reel 3 point type belts. Upper B post needs a small slot cut from the outside to slide the reinforcing plate down into the post. This way the inner metal isn't cut so original strength is still there. Sorted
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So got the drums back on the front
And then the weirdest things happened........... The wheels fell back onto the drums
Best pictures I could take without rolling her into the rain plus my back is recovering from a epidural injection. Anyhow, this is with the adjusters wound right the way down and that's pretty low aye?
This must be the first time in 10 odd yrs that she has been on all 4 wheels ๐ ๐
Once I've got back from the UK with brake shoes and other goodies I'll prob get some new bearings and get the brakes bled and done properly plus I'll have the tie rod ends then too.
So this coming week I shall hopefully get the seat strengthening plates welded in.
Gotta call the engineer too as not sure the upper B pillar spreader is possible to comply with ADR rules and may have to settle for lap belts instead of 3 point inertia ๐
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psimitar wrote:I thought I'd taken a piccie of the beam on the pan but hadn't so thought do that tonite before the sun goes down at 5.30pm ๐
Also bought some 12mm thick rubber strip for making the body mount vibration pads. $20 for the rubber or $40+ for buying the proper pads ๐
Also having to clean up the Corollas water pump, all faces machined flat again, the starter needs new brushes and I need a new rear tyre. Think I'll be whoring myself this weekend again ๐
Those bump rubbre mounts may get in the way,
when you lower it.
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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. ๐ฅฒ
lookin kickass
Cheers guys ๐
I'll see how close the bump stop mount is whilst she's at her lowest. If close then shall see about some rubber pipe instead cos the bump stop is there for a reason ๐
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They are there to stop your bug looking cool.
Cut them off!
We'll see mate, we'll see ๐
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So house sitting for the in-laws means finding jobs to do away from the beetle.
Headlight repairs. I forgot to take a photo of the ali baking foil I've glued into the bowl as the mirror finish was pretty gone.
Spot the before and after photo
and have fitted wedge type sidelights to save issues with the std sidelight bulb/wiring.
Cheap fix but with P45t Halogen bulbs you'd never really notice ๐
Wanted to put the headlights together but local supplier is waiting for the spring clips to come in ๐
Ah well, little bro over for a few days so progress really has been slow plus the vehicle engineer won't return my calls so I can't sort whether I can use inertia belts or lap belts :moon: to you mr engineer
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gees mate, i bet you got sick of grinding down all those welds under the heater chanel๐
i hate grinding!
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vwsteve wrote:gees mate, i bet you got sick of grinding down all those welds under the heater chanel๐
i hate grinding!
Yea, grinding sucks esp from underneath as makes the arm ache from pushing upwards for so long and so hard.
Not much grinding left I hope
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So the 3 weeks house sitting for the in-laws wasted valuable resto time but back into with a vengance this week.
Bit's painted whilst at in-laws. Spot the custom fluid reservoir so the old 50's single res now feeds the dual MC.
Using some plate to flatten the area where the upper seatbelt mount goes for the front seats. Can't go up top due to the semaphores.
8mm thick spreader plate plug welded in place and tidied up.
Pasenger channel repaired, painted and inner panel repair started
More below ๐
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Tie rods and fluid res installed. Shiney ๐
And a Stainless washer jet fetted to pass the Rego rules here. Custom fluid res to follow.
Also, now 90% done with re-wiring her and getting started on the drivers seat frame. Xmas all back together is do able tho maybe without the engine but really getting there now ๐
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Awesome coming along nicely
So been toiling away most the week and weekend to keep things moving. Picked crank and headlight parts up on friday so we have
also got a new gearlink coupling and basically these 'genuine Vw' new ones are a bit crap so outta $20 of coupling I've used just the rubber bushes. Also, you'll see in the pic that I have cut and welded the old unit to make the bush fit very snuggly so no slop in it now
Then got one side of the drivers seat frame started and have both the lower B post repair panels done with seatbelt plates in em
And the drivers side hole
Just trying to cure the rust on that inner panel before welding them in and then that'll be the seatbelt points good to go.
Drivers seatframe is last big bodywork item I think and then apart from the engine rebuild its a case of putting bits back together ๐
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So last few nites I have fitted one of the rear brake shoes up
Still gotta fit the handbrake level and other side but almost ready for fluid.
Then I have the seatbelt points all done now
And drivers B pillar repair
Also, I finished the headlight wiring and think I'm ready for buying a battery to test everything. Well few grommets required to finish that too.
So, onto the drivers seat frame tomoro ๐
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So I have hammered it the last few weeks and have tarted up the seat belt mods plus fitted the new inertia's and then got the cross bracing done on the seat frame and the floorpan plates welded and painted.
Enjoy the pics ๐
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Plus spacers made for running wide 5 rear drums on IRS shafts
No frame pics as bit of grinding and end plates to weld before welding the seat to it and then a picture in the car ๐
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So fitted the rear wings
Passenger side will need it's spring plate resetting by an inch. DOH!!
And headlights fitted
Managed to blow passenger high beam so will look into that and figured out that I'd wired the relay coils the wrong way round and hence the diode was basically acting as a short and fried the coil.
Will just have to swap the fusebox terminals around and that'll fix that.
Doing lots of little jobs like painting the handbrake lever and filling my remote reservoir, which works and don't leak ๐ then battery clamp and rear seat rail and.........
Ah well, getting there.
Merry Christmas everyone ๐
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Best xmas present EVER!!!!! I hope one day if I get married my husband will buy me a Bug to do up!!!!
Good job with the resto too!!!!!!!!!!
