My fault, but today going round a corner car started to sound different, thought thats odd I thought i had dropped a cylinder or something I had no idea.
What had happened was one of my pea-shooters had come out went back to find it and it was gone...
anyway have new pea shooters on the way but for the time being the bug actually sounds like a WRX not a 1300!😂
BMW R65 LS
1967 1300 Deluxe
Swing-axles FTW
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lol, I had the same experience when I was living in the UK some years back, except it was the early hours of the morning as I dashed across a road through some moors to get back home after a night out with the boys.
It fell off half way across the moors. I had to spin it around and use my headlights to try and find it coz I couldn't sneak back home sounding like a truck! I would have woken half the neighborhood! Luckily after half an hours searching I found it... looking back it makes me shiver as it's not the best place to be in the early hours on your own!!
1962 Deluxe Beetle
1970 Low Light Microbus
Had a pea shooter fall out a few years ago, and it landed on the windscreen of the car behind. The P plater in his XE Falcon was happy to have the cracked screen replaced, and it cost me only $175. Lucky it didnt wipe someone out.
some people used to take one out [back in the late 50s 60s]
so they would unreal....
but is very Noisy... lol
best to drill a hole in the bottom of muffler right thru the pea shooter.. also use the clamps etc..
LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
also maybe You were lucky You didn't find it straight away..
as those things hold the heat for a long time...
You would have had some burnt fingers....lol
not nice... [hot chrome]
LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
it kind of spins me out that you drive your car. i generally cruise past your house about 4 times a day and it is always under the carport. i really should pull my finger out and drop in to introduce myself. are you staying up here over summer or heading back to the coast?
like helbus said, ive heard a few stories of them breaking windscreens
heres the solution i came up with to stop them falling out
tack weld one half of the clamp to the tail pipe 👍
unless they rust in place the constant heating up and cooling down they always seem to work loose
Hey Henry
I'm actually leaving armidale for good! 😀 we are leaving this sunday, pop around though your more than welcome. Were moving because my partner has finished uni and were off to sydney to find work etc.. (you know all the good things👎), what a year with the bug though man with oil leaks etc... but it passed rego without a hitch in october so all worth it!
BMW R65 LS
1967 1300 Deluxe
Swing-axles FTW
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man i have had it where they are that hard to take off it took me 2 days of soaking them
i have a near new set here only about 1000 k's on them
but your going to the big smoke have fun Shaun 😉
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