fitting window scrapers

lauzboy Seriously Crusin Dubber

177 posts · joined Mar 2005 · 16 Apr 2005, 1:18 am

#337706

the outer scrapers on my bug are ripped to the BS

got new ones but have not a single clue on how to remove the old ones and install the new

does anyone have a website link or can post FULL directions on this process. i hear its quite a tedious task in the order of 3hrs per door

also besides the outer scrapers, is there anything else i need/should do while im at it?

thanks!!

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 16 Apr 2005, 1:42 am

#337722

Outer scrapers are a terrible job.....
I have wiped all memory of it out of My mind....
They don't seem to fit in well....
Bloody nightmare.... easy to wreck them too...

stick your hand up inside the door and pop them out of the door... they just pop out....
then there are the bailey channel clips to get out too...
they are the bits that hold the bailey channel and the outer scraper on the vertical part... Not sure whether you knock them up or down.... to get them out....

I hope someone else can give you a step by step way to do them....
Its twice as hard to put the new ones in.....
and they bend very easily.... aluminium,,,,

Where the actual glass scrapers go in the door.....
Firstly cut off the bottom edge of rubber hanging down into the door... as this rubber has an edge on it and the edge catches on the glass and pulls the scraper out first time You wind the glass up.....
I also glued the inner & outer scrapers where they clip in where the glass coles out of the door....
Brazillian Clips can break off too... very fragile...

Best of Luck....

Lee

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

toplessbug Fahrvergnugen

879 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 16 Apr 2005, 8:45 pm

#338174

to post a full description of replacing scrapers both inner and outer at the same time would require a book the size of the encyclopedia britannica just to contain the swearing it requires.this is the biggest bastard, shit,mongrel job you can contemplate. take it somewhere and pay whatever they ask and be forever grateful .

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 16 Apr 2005, 10:20 pm

#338308

yep have you learnt to swear.... its a complicated job....

I read it on FACEBOOK so it must be true

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=91278&page=1#pid848630

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=63561&page=1#pid624099

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=4832&page=1#pid452603

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=60650&page=1#pid574409

Dasdubber DAS Resto Haus

5,746 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 16 Apr 2005, 10:26 pm

#338316

Go to "The Doors" section on this page (can't seem to post a direct link) and there is a lot of valuable info:

http://www.thebugshop.org/gotech.htm

www.dasrestoparts.com.au

lauzboy Seriously Crusin Dubber

177 posts · joined Mar 2005 · 19 Apr 2005, 10:11 pm

#340355

hmmmmm

so i really DONT want to be doing it then eh

anyone know where i can get this done? im located near parramatta in sydney

toplessbug Fahrvergnugen

879 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 19 Apr 2005, 10:18 pm

#340358

as dave would say go to vvds they can help ----------seriously ,you dont want to be doing this job its shit