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| posted on March 30th, 2004 at 07:22 AM |
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Hey Hey
Zac
Your breakin me heart, all the places I would love to go. Hope you have a great time. I hope to make it to Germany for the next Bad Camberg meet!
Kafer.
What has happened to the youth of this generation! I would have thought that helping dear ol dad on his project would have been a bonding thing, I can
remember working on my fathers 61 Beetle and blacking the tyres and using pops Splitty as a cubby house. So whats the plans for the notch anyway,
Lowering, hot motor, matt black!!!!!!
Had a great arvo yesterday, Visited my friend place and looked over his 54 Oval, very nice original car, bloody great! then went to another friends
and had a look at the 59 project bus, they just scored, easy resto, not much rust at all great buy! Cant have a better afternoon than that can you?
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| posted on March 30th, 2004 at 08:04 AM |
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PLANS.....Is there such a thing.....i thought it was "suck it and see"
doing all the mechanicals at the moment brakes, ball joint, tie rods etc and lowering each corner as I go.
Then i'll tune the engine. I've got an air leak and think I might need to get the carbs bushed.
Body and paint will come after it's reg'd.
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| posted on March 30th, 2004 at 08:14 AM |
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Look slike both of us have lots of VW work to do! Why are we on here and not working on our respective cars?
Rob...:thumb
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| posted on March 30th, 2004 at 09:12 AM |
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`Cause i'm at work.....:cry
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| posted on March 30th, 2004 at 10:46 AM |
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Hah...new timetable and Tuesdays off and online....I can see they are going to very productive days for me!!
Gunna go out and check some sheds for Bel....and ring a couple of demolition places to get quotes for the bungalow to be taken down for the shed to go
in!!!!
I like week days off:thumb
I'll go visit Bel while I'm out
Kafer I can so relate to the story about your son...been there done that!!!:jesus
Mandie the matte black splitty is nice...it won best kombi
Wow Zac...France!!! Sounds like life is pretty good.....The hill climb got me, sorta never imagined it in old England!!!!
Gotta go get productive...CYA
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| posted on March 30th, 2004 at 02:30 PM |
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hey guys great to here about the progresson the notch :bounce love the pics
i have some sad news tho last night the kombi died the engine is how do you say cooked :cussing luckily i have a 2nd hand one ill be putting it in over the easter weekend and ill grab the pics 4 everyone
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it all come good eventually :beer
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| posted on March 30th, 2004 at 07:21 PM |
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Pyro, that's bad news..but as you said...lucky about the second engine!!!:thumb
Always good to have a spare lying around just in case...
I have...Another 36hp...and a half a one.....Not sure how prepare I have to be??:jesus
I have Tuesday's off now Visited Bel....not much cahnge sine last
week...and went and checked out the trimmers and talked carpet...Rang a couple of shed places to get prices. An all around productive day
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| posted on March 31st, 2004 at 11:15 PM |
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OK, so what happened to Tomorrows People TODAY????
How long was the forum down.....went on late last night and the band width had been exceeded...again:jesus
Went to another comedy show and had a good laugh tonight...'Danny Bhoy' this time........Met up with a couple of young American backpackers who I'd
served earlier in the day..... had a good talk..and a laugh. They were pretty impressed with being in town during the festival and were searching out
cheap tics!!
Hmmm, one of them became the butt of Danny's American jokes....Well she did put up her hand to say she was from out of town......NYC..:o
CYA's:sandrine
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| posted on April 1st, 2004 at 06:20 AM |
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Wow
Everyone's got things happening except me! BUT i have a little secret that you guys will have to wait to hear!
Jenz.
Glad to see your getting back to your old postal menace self!
Pyro.
Thats the problem with owning and driving old cars, they do suffer the occasional breakdown. Most of our VW's have long exceeded the factorys
projected lifespan. Thats why it is important to get yourself a little stash of spares, antoher gearbox and engine becomes good value, when something
like what has happened to you occurs.
Kafer.
I finishe welding in the other heater channel repairs, and now only have two little slithers I have to weld in, and I am finished welding, can't be
too soon I can tell you.
Zac.
Hows it going over on there. Picked up any nice women yet? and have you seen any nice VW's.
Splittychick.
How's it going with your bus. I went down to Byron and had a look at Judy's splitty. Looks like it should be an easy resto bodywise, very little
rust.
Well have to get back to working on the 66 now, I am starting to get enthusiastic now the horrible work has been done!
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| posted on April 1st, 2004 at 06:33 AM |
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Finally got all the rear suspension back in (on one side) took me an hour just to get the cover back on the torsion bars..aaargh.
Have it back on the ground on the wekend then i'll do the other side...can't wait.
Finished welding Rob...I don't believe it...just think no more little tatoos.
and to think people pay for that latest craze I hear is being branded.
Glad to hear you've got some spare time Jenz. I've been following the resto on Bel lookin' good.
Sorry to hear about your engine Pyro...but it looks like we're all involved in aproject some way or another....except for Zac of course holidays
aren't counted as a project
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| posted on April 1st, 2004 at 06:35 AM |
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Yeah your not wrong there!
What was the problem with the torsion bar covers?
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| posted on April 1st, 2004 at 06:43 AM |
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Just a bugger to get the 4 bolt holes lined up the type3 irs has a small 12mm approx spacer on the back which makes it hard to line up the bolts.
Alot of cursing and swearing lucky the shed is far enough awy from the house. Give me swing arm any day.
The other side should be a breeze now i no exactly how to tackle it.
Just have to fix a ball joint and tie rod end and then the fronts finished too.
Then go crazy with the gloss black paint. Whats a good product for inside wheel arches (POR15 to expensive)
My wife has finally succumbed and even comes and sits in the shed with me. She must be after something.
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| posted on April 1st, 2004 at 06:51 AM |
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Your gone mate!!!! you know a mother always looks after her unborn child (the car)!!:thumb
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| posted on April 1st, 2004 at 06:55 AM |
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Maybe she's just making sure i'm working so Ben can have my ute.
It's amazing the difference when you "have to" work on the car rather than wanting to for something to do.
I think you'd know where i'm coming from.
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| posted on April 1st, 2004 at 07:01 AM |
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He He
The joys of married life!:thumb
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| posted on April 1st, 2004 at 09:59 AM |
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Logged on and now having to run to work....:jesus
Trying to train my BF to accept my addiction and not be frightened of it....We are back to dating 'only', with me needing assurance that he is not
going to get paranoid on me again. We went out last night...he has apparently bought me a big book on VW's which he was pretty happy about...(I'm
hoping it's not one I have)
I'm enjoying my time back here but there is more in life....so trying to establish a balance with my friend....
Bel is looking pretty slick...or she will........I'll have to get her pics back up soon
Not much has happened this week...they are working on another beetle...plus the Ghia's....they have a busy workshop there!! At least it slows down
the drain on the bank account when they are working on other cars:thumb
CYA's
p.s. Tokyo Shock Boys tonight...never seen them before...should be fun!!!!:o
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| posted on April 2nd, 2004 at 06:08 AM |
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Hey Jenz
Looks like ya got a fairly heavy agenda goin there, work, shows and VW's, how do ya fit it all in?
The only social life I have at the moment is my affair with the welder and the sanding block! Jodie locks me in the shed at 7.30AM and dosent let me
out until dinner time!
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| posted on April 2nd, 2004 at 06:17 AM |
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you should think yourself lucky she lets you out....:P
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| posted on April 2nd, 2004 at 07:29 AM |
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lol, i wish i was locked in the shed with my bus but alas i have none the time  sorry just did my english exam yesterday :P
good to here were getting back into the projects or planning for them again, cant wait for the pics jenz.
the engine is going in next saturday...........which poses a problem the nationals are on sunday :alien anyone reckon i can get the old engine out
and the new one in and tuned with only me and my step dad in one day ??? keep in mind ive never taken an engine out b4 :o
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Whoa man
the forums really movin today! the thread was three pages back, had to search for it!
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| posted on April 3rd, 2004 at 04:32 PM |
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Well one side of the notch is lowered and maechanically OK. Except for the pitted front brake rotors. Might get them skimmed on the car.
As you can see from the photo's it came down a bit.
Only thing i'm worried about is that i might have picked the easy side first....:jesus
See the long range weather forecast for Easter...RAIN...Oh well Straddie here we come.....:cry
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| posted on April 3rd, 2004 at 04:37 PM |
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Painted inside the wheel wells with sond deadener and sprayed all the suspension parts with gloss blach after days with the wire brush...looks like
the day it rolled off the production line......:thumb
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| posted on April 4th, 2004 at 09:16 AM |
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looks like ur making some headway there kafer!!! are you planning to go any further once the other side is done (lower i mean...)
i am back from my week in france...safe and sound (and probly 2kg heavier)...oh man, the cheese, the wine.....the chocolate!!! i went to aramouche
(the d-day beaches), bayeux (tapestry), i stayed at le castel d'ailly, honfleur (artist town), went to the neufchatel cheese place..6euros for
600grams of cheese!!!, and today i went to the chocolaterie (and bought a slab of chocolate and inch thick, 5inches wide, and 10inches long and it
cost me 18euros!!
i have taken pics that i will put up tomoz sometime...poor me, now i've just got to deal with my 3weeks holiday.
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| posted on April 4th, 2004 at 06:02 PM |
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Hi PPL
Kafer Man
Looks like there's not much more to do to the notch!
Zac
Ya didn't mention if ya made any lady friends over there!! He He He.
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| posted on April 5th, 2004 at 02:38 AM |
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it's france...do i need to |
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| posted on April 5th, 2004 at 02:40 AM |
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oh..and i forgot to add that now i have 3.5 weeks holidays (and for most of that i will be in sweden 'seeing the sights'
so if i don't pop up for a little while you know that i'm, ahh, engrossed in other activities.
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He He He....:thumb
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| posted on April 5th, 2004 at 06:39 AM |
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Man, It's amazing what a bit of experience can do. What took me almost 3 days last week I did in an afternoon . Found the trick with the torsion bar
caps as well.
Drop it back on its wheels this afternoon and fingers crossed it will be level.
Hey Zac can I put an order in for a Swedish girl.....
[Edited on 4-4-2004 by kafer69]
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Hey Kafer, will we see it at Klub Fest?
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| posted on April 5th, 2004 at 01:47 PM |
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more pics will have to go up once that puppy is back with its wheels on the ground and lowered all round.....
and i thought my head was on crookered when i saw the 1st pics :P
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