not much to report 2day.
got the drivers door on an seals installed, lines up sweet.
then spent ages trying to install the front windscreen.
fuck doin it by urself its near impossible, the chrome started to come out then the seal came off the glass, on numerous occasions so fuck it ill get help with this one... unless someone has a trick up their sleeve..
Bit of a non event day, small things were time consuming. But happy with the results anyway..
Engine finally set up, choke cable extension, Fram, MMO an all wiring done an ready to fire up once again.
Got better brakes on it so had to make up a bracket for the dual resovior can be accessed through the round window (steering box access plate) made it so it bolted onto the dual brake cylinder, no holes drilled!!
2moro hopefully have all the little stuff done.. Hopefully.
Hey Dion, looking awesome.
Looking forward to see how the interior turns out. I think you should get some old wheels and bury them for a bit and let them decay.
Keep it up,
T54
C'mon kids gather round,
there's a new sensation hitting town,
It's moving straight, low to the ground,
it'll pick you up when your feeling down.
finally got the ignition keyed and around to some wiring briefly, got it running but it was running like shit so adjusted the timing an still shit.. then thought about it an i didnt have the boost gauge hooked up. idiot..
so it runs, but now needs adjusting again to compensate for it been already adjusted..
heres a snippit
engine was running like a bag of shit, checked an rechecked everything, then the prob was found. troubleshooting with people is good, u forget somethings sometimes. (thanks klaus)
the culprit
cleaned an ran beautiful again..
changed the distributor thinkin that it could of also been a problem. no vacuum advance now but an early centrifugal advance one.
All lights and wiring, done.
original door cards and rubber mats, done
finally got around to modifying the bracket for the cruiser pedal. bit of dilly dallying but all good an works a treat, no more sore foot from the roller.
greased the tracks, an in went the seats. not the right color, ill search for them still.
got the rust free decklid off bens oval for rego, then the yellow one will go back on.
would love a ratty horizon blue one tho to match the car if someone has one, give it up now!!!
ill see how i go with no carpet for rego, if he says i need it so be it. but for now ill run as is!! got to organize rego check soon..
so been test driving it to fine tune it up an down the street, and have a small problem.
the hubcap keeps comin off. fuck losing them.. so fix the problem
feeling lazy, i took the rim an new clips to an engineer to see if they could put them in, they had no idea about it, there is a special rivet tool, but i didnt want to pay XX amount for it. so back to metalwork basics an made my own tool.
a simple bolt
drill a recess an grind a section
and voila!! a rivet/clip holder.
prop the tyre an rim over the clip an rivet, beat with a hammer an no more lost caps..
got a call from work, leave where i am to go to katherine in NT (anyone up that way pm me!!) so a couple of days at home an bored, had this sittin around for ages an thought id test it to make sure it worked properly..
for those who dont know what it is, its an inline reverse switch that goes between the speedo and cable. havnt hooked up the whole thing yet, this is a trial.
original vw reverse light..
watch the vid to see the results an how it works, too much rain to hook it up 2day..
