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Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:15 am

a little superglue, a round of duct tape and a shot of cactus juice then back to work. never got tetanus from a baja, just a empty hole where my wallet use to be. daddy always said, " if you dont bleed a little, it wont come out right"

Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:47 am

carlos_magnum wrote: Gee! You got a serious injury. :-&

Does it hurt until now?

It only hurts when I move it :lol: :cry:

Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:52 pm

Well I didn't get much done this past weekend. I wasn't feeling to good :-&

Rough cut on the drivers floor section

Final fitting before welding

Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:45 am

I truth is he never feel good, :twisted: , but he did work on his baja for a few hours before his long afternoon nap :!:

Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:52 am

Kenny is working hard, getting the metal cut and fited for his new floor.

Kenny brother comes out to help (haha)

After last weeks never death acident, Kenny is wearing gloves

Some fine tuning

Ok, this could be bad, no gloves, and he is cutting toword his leg, speed dail ready *911

I took some photos of Kenny welding the panel in but they are on Kennys camera, so you will have to wait for him to up load them

Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:37 pm

looks like a cool project, good looks 8)

Mon Jun 15, 2009 5:05 pm

baja kid wrote: looks like a cool project, good looks 8)

Thanks :D WOW :!: your bug looks fantastic 8) Don't think mine will ever look that good but that's all part of the Baja experience :vw:

Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:23 pm

Prepping replacement pan for welding

Prepping pan for welding

Had to make our own grounding post

My buddy Steve welding my floor pan

Steve showing me how to weld

Kinda cool watching the welds from above. Guess I should have wire wheeled that area before hand......

My first attempt at welding on my Bug

Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:05 pm

Well I haven't done any work on my rag top so I haven't posted. I just bought a '66 today that has rear end damage and a clean title with current reg so it looks like I'm going to build it instead of my '62 with no paperwork. I already cut the rear apron off and plan to use parts off the '62.

The '66 has a narrowed 2in ball joint beam with adjusters that I need to sell or trade for a stock beam. It also has 1600 single port motor with a freeway flyer trans which I might sell to use the lower geared trans out of the 1200 powered '62.

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Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:58 pm

Time to call in sick to work for a few days... and get that thing running....

Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:11 am

Well we changed gears again and picked up a rolling '70 Bug with a title to use the pan for the '62.

David and Steve remove the rear half of the body

Steve removes the doors and front half of body

Jerry surveys the bare pan

David and Steve setup poles to slide the '62 body over to the '70 chassis

Body swap done

Hmmmm...rear body mount has to go!

Going....

Slight adjustment

That's better!

Body bolted to pan

'62 flywheel toast! The magic tool makes removing gland nut easy!

Torque gland nut to 45# which multiplies to about 400#

Flywheel and clutch taken from '66 Bug

Steve moves engine over to '62/'70

Engine in position

Just a little shove

Almost there

It's in!

Now to the wiring. We went with a Dune Buggy Wiring Harness from Chirco

Main wires run back to front

Steve really knows his wiring!

Hope to get it running this weekend!

Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:01 am

Sweet. keep the build porn comming 8)

Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:43 am

I colored the diagram to make it eayer for me, I also charged a few things, we run a main power cut off, and push button start..

This is the stock diagram that is sent with the wiring.

Sun Nov 01, 2009 6:49 pm

Long weekend, got a lot done.

Bug completely wired, with new harness.

Ran new fuel line, because the hard line is blocked somewhere.

Started the Motor, runs great.

Swapped wheels and tires....

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Some where I think Kenny has photos and video's.....

Next weekends plan....

Bleed brakes, patch the rust spots... put in seat....Test drive...

Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:39 pm

I'm downloading the video as I type. Here are a few pics from today.

Steve finished the wiring

Pulled the drums to switch from 4 lug to 5 and found brakes already done!

Front and rear views

Next weekend bleed the brakes install seats and go for a ride! :D

Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:47 pm

Here's the video. It's boring I know but hey it runs! That's Steve working the throttle. He's my hero. Since I broke my hip he's been doing all the work on the car. =D>

Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:05 pm

dang if only you were here in the dallas area. im about to have to replace the passenger floor pan in my '64. The pan came in and im just like Sh** where to begin... gunna need some assistance on this one. haha

Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:29 pm

Pretty much done! Bled the brakes, installed seats and buttoned up a few loose ends. Check it out! :D

Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:19 pm

Here's some stills

Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:53 pm

Nice job. Its funny you think its only a bug how hard car they be to build! Then you get into it and you go damn there are a lot of little things to do on these damn cars. I pick up my baja this friday cant wait. Comes with a lot of new parts. I still wish I had my sandrail too. Oh well. Do you and your buddy take your bajas off roading? And where? Im in Pittsburg Ca about and hour and 20 mins from you. Have to get mine together and do a meet somewhere.