What did you do on your VW today ???

hellbugged · 2013-03-10T04:53:25+00:00

A passer by commented today " fixing it again".... "Well no, just tinkering" I replied. Got me thinking about what all the other VW freaks were up to as well. Sooooo...... What did others get done today?.... Add a quick run down and add a pic if you like each time you get something done, be it big or small, routine service or turbo and EFI. Today I was playing on the stocka. Changed a stuffed tie rod end for a newie,Greased the front end after wading through knee deep water in this weeks floods, pulled and rebuilt the windscreen wiper assembly happily knowing that would stop the rain, adjusted the brakes and rotated the tyres and fixed a leaking muffler flange. What about you?

FROSTY Insano Dub Head

744 posts · joined May 2009 · 8 Sep 2013, 7:20 pm

#969225

Get out of the way Rose I can't see your car....

tar76 Custom Title Time!

1,622 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 8 Sep 2013, 7:41 pm

#969229

Pulled out a boiling battery after driving home from the sunny coast 😠

"Obey your Dreams"!

62 Std beetle.
65 11 wnd Split "The Cross".
6? coming very soon!!!!

rose doin it for d girls

2,036 posts · joined Dec 2004 · 9 Sep 2013, 5:11 pm

#969347

sorry 😂😂😂

FROSTY wrote:Get out of the way Rose I can't see your car....

silver Dangerous when poked

2,169 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 9 Sep 2013, 9:33 pm

#969395

rose wrote:sorry 😂😂😂

FROSTY wrote:Get out of the way Rose I can't see your car....

I can see the vee dub bonnet though

Keeping it real !

Sides Veteran Volks Folk

2,220 posts · joined May 2007 · 16 Sep 2013, 9:01 am

#970053

I still claim that yesterday counts...

I fanged cr@p out of Jezzi at Mt Cotton again... 50.00 the best of my 9 runs... sooooo close to backing up my 49, but still good enough to disappoint the 2 quick Escort's and Cortina that were chasing in my class.

Beer glasses as trophies are such a great idea !!!

😀

EDIT: Plus I celebrated over a coldy with Ian and Dave O who were both in my shed getting the new engine into the Club Fasty.

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My toys
'70 Hillclimb Bug 'Jezebel' w/- Haltech EFI - http://bit.ly/VwTNtQ
'60 KG Coupe - resto kinda started
01 New Beetle - gf's car, but I turn the spanners

beetleboyjeff Custom Title Time!

1,790 posts · joined Feb 2009 · 16 Sep 2013, 11:42 pm

#970124

Replaced a clutch cable - the last one has only lasted 240,000km - bloody thing.

From your ole' mate Jeff

hrastovica Officially Full-On Dubber

361 posts · joined Apr 2009 · 18 Sep 2013, 1:56 pm

#970244

Got the car ready for scrutineering and Club Plates. Installed the headlights, managed to get the eyelids to work with the Rossis... might still need a little tightening up. Installed new sun visors, and front bumper. Took some cool photos at my office (a 1960s style building).

** UPDATED PICS... Broke down that night... silly me didnt have a spare generator belt (no I wasnt wearing any stockings that night lol) so had to get towed. Oh well... thank God for RACV.

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tar76 Custom Title Time!

1,622 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 30 Sep 2013, 5:21 pm

#971354

Got in a yoga type position and sprayed fertan up in behind the split's dash. Easy spot for the old rust cancer to start as it's one of those out of site places.

then general check over before the trip to Warwick Saturday morning.

"Obey your Dreams"!

62 Std beetle.
65 11 wnd Split "The Cross".
6? coming very soon!!!!

vduboy Insano Dub Head

702 posts · joined Oct 2012 · 4 Oct 2013, 11:49 am

#971735

I finally got my Manxter kit picked up! Should hopefully see it this weekend. Can't wait to fill up the garage with fiberglass.👍

It will all be OK in the end, if it's not OK it's not the end!

DubbyDo Officially Full-On Dubber

276 posts · joined Jan 2012 · 4 Oct 2013, 10:47 pm

#971793

Finally took mine for a spin around the block after not driving it for 3 months, still needs proper carb tune up and a couple of tiny oil leaks sorted but...... How could you not run twin webers and straight cuts PHWOOOARRR.
Big thanks to Matt Berry Motorsports for super fast postage on parts and advice (some of which I should have known!!!!) which got me sorted

hrastovica Officially Full-On Dubber

361 posts · joined Apr 2009 · 5 Oct 2013, 11:32 pm

#971843

Coffee cruise with the Type 3 dudes. Awesome day.

nils Fahrvergnugen

971 posts · joined Jan 2008 · 6 Oct 2013, 7:46 am

#971855

I almost have an engine again 🤪

Quit calling rust patina

57 oval Oval type 4 Fuel Injected

184 posts · joined Feb 2008 · 6 Oct 2013, 8:46 pm

#971890

What didn I do to my VW today? Well it goes like this ! After salvaging the ole Oval in 08 and spending many an hour on it I finally stuck fuel down its throat stuck spark up its Rs and got noise out the exhaust. Pretty happy, the odd oil leak, fixed needs a fine tune but overall happy as the proviable pig in shot.

1957 Oval type IV
1956 Oval poss project
1954 Oval impossible project
Ass 70's Beetles
http://www.users.on.net/~rogerbyrne/index.htm

Gringo_54_oval Officially Full-On Dubber

240 posts · joined Jan 2009 · 9 Oct 2013, 9:43 pm

#972279

Finally installed my LED tail lights after owning them for about 3 years.

brighter than before

57 oval Oval type 4 Fuel Injected

184 posts · joined Feb 2008 · 9 Oct 2013, 9:52 pm

#972281

Pm sent

1957 Oval type IV
1956 Oval poss project
1954 Oval impossible project
Ass 70's Beetles
http://www.users.on.net/~rogerbyrne/index.htm

hrastovica Officially Full-On Dubber

361 posts · joined Apr 2009 · 10 Oct 2013, 5:33 am

#972296

- Installed early style wipers
- Installed chrome stone guards on front fender.
- Installed OG stainless steel trims to replace crappy aftermarket ones.
- Installed a dual base antenna just a tad too close to the window vent 😠
- Gave it a wash and took it for a burn to Williamstown

Next i might have a crack at doing some bodywork/painting before Day of... clean up that damaged fender and clean up the stone chips.

silver Dangerous when poked

2,169 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 16 Oct 2013, 4:51 pm

#972880

removing some rust on the container van

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Keeping it real !

beetleboyjeff Custom Title Time!

1,790 posts · joined Feb 2009 · 16 Oct 2013, 11:56 pm

#972918

silver wrote:removing some rust on the container van

Wow, there isn't much of that van left. 😂

From your ole' mate Jeff

silver Dangerous when poked

2,169 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 17 Oct 2013, 6:15 am

#972931

beetleboyjeff wrote:
silver wrote:removing some rust on the container van
Wow, there isn't much of that van left. 😂

No there isn't, luckily the rust was only in the sills and one outrigger this is from passenger side the only part common to split vans is the inner sill I found a local sheet metal guy to fold up the sections and I am fabricating the parts from these
good fun

Keeping it real !

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 20 Jul 2014, 7:05 pm

#996161

Who's idea is this bloody Valla thing

Took some anodized center caps, scrubbed em raw and thru the process to get them to a mirror polished finished

Removed the gummed up injectors from the currently 2 cylinder race notch to get cleaned, replaced gummy fuel pump

Cleaned some cookie cutters ready for paint

Lowered the front bumper on the hotty beetle

MY68VW Seriously Crusin Dubber

181 posts · joined Aug 2006 · 20 Jul 2014, 8:05 pm

#996174

I've been searching for this thread; thanks hellbugged.

Covered the passenger door in paint stripper and scrapped it back to metal.

Tuned Type IV power - shaking out the rust.

donn Wolfsburg Elder

3,515 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 20 Jul 2014, 8:39 pm

#996180

Took the dust cover off, third time in as many weeks

I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!

joesbuell Seriously Crusin Dubber

190 posts · joined Sep 2011 · 20 Jul 2014, 9:33 pm

#996193

Fired up my new 1641 and sorted my new Bug-tech shifter 😀

oldskoolguy Officially Full-On Dubber

329 posts · joined Sep 2011 · 20 Jul 2014, 11:02 pm

#996206

Our Bug got a well deserved wash. It's been on daily driver duties since the Nationals and was a bit grubby.

"The best trophies are stone chips"
1969 1500 Beetle "Otis"
2008 Golf GTI

Lucky Phil Wolfsburg Wizard

480 posts · joined Aug 2010 · 21 Jul 2014, 8:24 pm

#996259

White cars tub up so nice!

oldskoolguy Officially Full-On Dubber

329 posts · joined Sep 2011 · 21 Jul 2014, 9:47 pm

#996266

Lucky Phil wrote:White cars tub up so nice!

🙂 Sure do.

"The best trophies are stone chips"
1969 1500 Beetle "Otis"
2008 Golf GTI

baghall Ben Hal Outlaw Bushranger

1,021 posts · joined Jan 2010 · 21 Jul 2014, 11:47 pm

#996281

Began cutting materials for the rear cabinets for the bus.

68 Baja - It's a growing pain!
58 Baja ute - and the pain spreads!
85 T3 Kombi - still growing
89 T3 Kombi - parts car

Perezoso Commited Dubber

59 posts · joined Oct 2012 · 22 Jul 2014, 9:07 pm

#996365

Replaced bump stops, new exhaust and replaced the engine bay seal in my bug without donating any skin from my knuckles which I heard happens quite a lot, haha. Engine hopefully in tomorrow or Thursday.

72 super beetle
74 rat panel van

GottaSplit Seriously Crusin Dubber

101 posts · joined Nov 2010 · 22 Jul 2014, 10:22 pm

#996373

New exhaust, new horn ring and a working horn...
Progressing to getting all lights working.....
all new ignition, clean fuel... etc
been sitting in a field in Goulburn for 20 years........ :P

1960 11 Window

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 23 Jul 2014, 5:43 am

#996378

👍 Good stuff

Plenty happening around the place then