Hola! Alrighty, finally got the Beetle (Who has been named Charlotte, by my girlfriend 🙂 ) going, I put the exhaust off the 1600 engine back onto it, and just bodged up the hole in it to get me by. The difference was amazing, suddenly she started to idle properly 🙂
Of course, then I back out of my girlfriends driveway (which is at quite an incline)... snag the muffler on the road... and snap...
*mutters darkly about exhausts*
Anyhoo, moving on. I'm about to get my GSXR1000K6 back from it's May encounter with the numpty 4wd owner who decided it was quicker to just drive through me, so I can afford to delve into Charlotte and fix some more issues.
Which brings me to the rust thingy. I have nasty rust at the base of the door pillars, I suspect the heater channels may be toast (I've been too scared to look, but the way things are going I kind of know what I'll find) and the area around the filler cap is... well.. missing..
Where's a good place to buy replacement sections that can be welded in?
What sort of welder should I use? Given I haven't welded anything for 20 years, is there anywhere I could have it welded that won't cost me my firstborn? (I don't actually have a firstborn yet, and the girlfriend wasn't all that enthused about having one to further the cause of Charlottes restoration... woman.. sigh.. I don't understand em 😉 )
She isn't into cars anyhow, rides a yamaha R6 everywhere.
And finally, I'm kind of enthused with getting the heating working properly, I hooked everything up, only the cables are kind of screwy, cos I couldn't turn the heating off 🙂 Feet burny.. eeek, one of the cables at the back seems to be shorter than the other, are they different lengths??
brent ·