TheSamba.com :: View topic - Getting the ball rolling '73 Standard

Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:04 pm

:oops: Ran out of gas today on the way home from work. But I put the black coil in today, and hope that I'll have an original Bosch sticker on it sometime soon. :D

Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:52 pm

Well let it be known that I have truly ran my bug on fumes..10 gallon gas tank..I bought 10 gallons of gas :shock: :lol: Skills!

Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:10 pm

happened to me recently on the HWY... sucks !
my gas gas is 1/8 tank off... I found out the hard way... oops

Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:11 pm

HEY!!!!!!!!!!! Just watched you vid....sounds great......looks great toooo!!!!! but hey man MOVE YOUR FUEL FILTER!!!!!!! I am suprised no one has screamed it yet.....it's right over the cap and wires......BOOM!!!! fire is bad!!!!!! :wink: :shock:

Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:13 pm

Fumes is right! Good job...though the tank actually holds 10.6 gallons. :wink:

Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:15 pm

Fattie wrote: happened to me recently on the HWY... sucks !
my gas gas is 1/8 tank off... I found out the hard way... oops

O damn, that sucks :? , I was right before an exit into town when the engine quit, so I had enough momentum to coast onto the the exit ramp and pull off to the side, but that receipt picture is from the 8th, the car died pulling into the gas station that time :lol: ..and my gas guage is pretty accuarate, maybe a little off, showing that there's more in the tank when there really isnt.

As for the fuel filter, we had this discussion..it's a common misconception that the fuel filter will burst..If checked regularly, then I have nothing to worry about. It's when the filter is neglected that you can have a fire hazard.

Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:16 pm

mnussbau wrote: Fumes is right! Good job...though the tank actually holds 10.6 gallons. :wink:
Ahah! Well then I was close :lol: I like how the numbers end at 10.000 8)

Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:22 pm

As for the fuel filter, we had this discussion..it's a common misconception that the fuel filter will burst..If checked regularly, then I have nothing to worry about. It's when the filter is neglected that you can have a fire hazard.

Well as long as your up on it I guess it's your call....Shit happens....mostly to me so I'll bet your gonna be ok with it :D

Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:23 pm

:lol: Best to ya man. My boss said that it's all good that the filter is in the engine compartment, and I look at my engine multiple times daily, so I think I'm in the clear. :D

Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:57 pm

hey did you get your brakes figured out yet? they might just need to be re-adjusted. I thought I needed to bleed mine some more because they were acting just like what you were describing. anyway, I think they were just out of adjustment. hell of a lot more solid now.

Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:25 am

69bugboy76 wrote: hey did you get your brakes figured out yet? they might just need to be re-adjusted. I thought I needed to bleed mine some more because they were acting just like what you were describing. anyway, I think they were just out of adjustment. hell of a lot more solid now. x2
When the shoes have to travel further to meet the drum (out of adjustment), of course, it takes more fluid pumped to the wheel cylinders to get them there. So, it can make them feel soft and even require pumping. Wish the things were self-adjusting :twisted:
Lazy me

Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:18 pm

We'll see what the deal with the brakes are later on this week..I can stop and stop well, so for the moment, I'm not super concerned at the moment.

Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:26 pm

Here's some pics..only thing new is the black coil and the shineing of paint. I dig the night photos too.

Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:33 pm

Very nice. Mines laid up in the garage awaiting a rebuild now... :roll:

Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:54 pm

Just for fun, I wanted to post up some pics of the things that I do at work..

I did 2 sets of single port heads today, I love cleaning them up because its bringing potential into a thing that was once sought after as worthless, and not it will eventually go back into a car that needs them. Sorry for the poor pic quality, it took them with my cell phone, but I'll probably post up more pictures of what I do here in the next few weeks..

Also on that note, I was reading the very beginning of my thread, all I gotta say is I was more optomistic than what I was worth. But that brings me to this. At the beginning of my thread, it was a few weeks off from my birthday, I was saying things like I was going to have the car repainted by May..Obviously that wasn't the case at all..So now I'm a little over 2 weeks away from my birthday and I'm expecting cash from the family..With an estimate, it looks like I'll have enough to get all of the body seals and new suspension bushings..along with maybe a new interior. I'm letting optimisim get the better of me yet again..but this time I know what I'm getting into and working at an Aircooled VW shop, it makes life alot easier. The plan is, once I have everything all ordered up, I'm going to go ahead and take the body off the chassis and redo the pan and the suspension. While all of that is going down, I'll go ahead and do some of the minor things to the engine, with painting the manifold and getting the correct distributor. Then I'll move onto body and paint, the car is solid as a rock and only has surface rust, So I don't have to be concerned about patching anything.

So bottom line, it looks like in the next few months, I'll be comencing the restoration of my bug and hope to have it all nice and pretty for show season. If all goes well it'd be nice to have all of this done by early summer. But with the way things have been going, and the snails pace that I work at, it may not be until mid summer..

Thought I would enlighten everyone..I've kept it under wraps because I didn't want to talk up something that wasn't going to happen like how I had in the past...But I'm pretty confident that this year, it's going to happend and I can give the bug the proper restoration that it needs.

Sorry for the long winded post guys..but there you have it..that's the plan.

Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:34 am

Engine compartment is looking great! Such a huge difference from your first posts.

Sun Mar 28, 2010 11:52 am

it looks like you are coming along nicely!! You should talk somethings up because if you don't it might never get done. Just look at the classifieds and you can see how many people start on these things and never finish them and end up putting them up for sale. After all is said and done you will know exactly what is done to your car and also what not to do the next time around. Keep on doing what you are doing and one day it will all be finished and when you drive around you will have this great sense of pride, especially when someone asks you where did you buy that awesome bug...and you say I built it!! This is one of the greatest feelings you can ever have...it proves you have determination and self-worth. And someday some kid might come to you with questions and you can help them out and set them out on the right path...congratulations on how far you have come. In two weeks, with fingers crossed, I will have my engine complete and I will have that great feeling again!! Thanks all you samba people out there :) Sorry for the sappy post :oops:

Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:42 am

:D I don't mind sappy..mine was a little bit too. But I gotta coordinate everything just right so that it all falls into place and I'm not stuck staring at a primered car because I don't have enough for paint, or things like that. Till then I'm enjoying driving it everywhere..I put about 250 miles on it these past 4 days, and it runs amazing!..I also calculated it out and I'm getting 34.3 MPG!

Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:54 pm

no fair! I get between 12 and 15 most of the time!

Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:41 pm

:lol: I fill once every 2 1/2 weeks or soo..and I commute up to 130 miles on the week ends and average of 30 miles a week going to school..so about 160 miles a week..I donno why it gets such good milage but I'm not complaining :D