Success, compressed air didn't work but flexible rod with end flattened spadelike then attached to a drill did😁 Now I just have to get the trolley jack out from underneath my sons' Skyline and my buggys' battery back from his baja and I'm all ready to go👍........................... I think?
Some mates and I finally changed my front wheel bearings on the S-Bug. The left inner race was really welded on there pretty well! Even after heating it and removing it with a chisel, there were still chunks left permanently fused to the stub axle.
We also put on a strut brace which I got from Seb. I was surprised to find that a couple of the strut mount nuts were only finger tight!
took the 52 split out to play at the creek yesterday with 219 other competitors it was a great day out and I was the only beetle there. Bring on Warwick.
Fitted new engine seals, clutch and accelerator cables in the 'customer car' I'm working on.... Be glad to be working on my own cars when this sucka is done.
Finally got my vintage speed exhaust, did a dummy fit up, headers went straight on, really pleased, box is a bit of a tight fit, I will need to get the multigrips out and modify a couple of lips on the inner guards. It all fits up inside the beaver tail really well doesn't hang down all that far, I ordered it without the tail pipes fitted as I want to try a different look, so this is the next challenge not just fitting the pipes but matching the welds, Ive never seen tig welding so perfect.
57 oval wrote:Finally got my vintage speed exhaust, did a dummy fit up, headers went straight on, really pleased, box is a bit of a tight fit, I will need to get the multigrips out and modify a couple of lips on the inner guards. It all fits up inside the beaver tail really well doesn't hang down all that far, I ordered it without the tail pipes fitted as I want to try a different look, so this is the next challenge not just fitting the pipes but matching the welds, Ive never seen tig welding so perfect.
Love my vintage speed exhaust car sounds perfect. Today I am fitting an inline suppression unit hope is fixes my noise issue
Just bought home some upholstery samples to pick out a colour for the seats, shit I hate doing this took me long enough to pick the body colour. Got to live with it a long time if you pick wrong !!!!
Not me but my son Mick bought a new battery because of his starting problems only to find it was his starter playing up but thanks to Matt Berry a new bearing was sourced> Matt , if you're reading this Michael has been squeezing that bearing for at least 2 hours but hasn't seen any oil come through yet?!
Made up a dummy tail pipe for the new vintage speed box, looks great so out with the hole saw and cut two new inlet holes into the box, ordered some stainless bends to fabricate the final product, had to modify the inner guards to accommodate the tailpipes but works a treat. Spent the last few days fitting fuel hoses, connecting wires and making brake pipes, getting very close to start up day. Least it has kept my mind off what colour bloody interior I want !!!!!!!!
Hooked up all the ful lines, throttle cable connected, adjusted the clutch,hook up the wiring for the starter to morrow, stick the fuel tank in and hopefully ready to wind over for the first time by next weekend........
