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Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:41 am

Snow Pics

Took these a while back when we got a little snow. It was fun playing around in it, I took the Bus to an empty parking lot at 1:30AM and pulled some doughnuts and drifts. Then I just went for a short drive because I could, these things are great in the snow. In some of the shots you can see my front side marker "light" mod, idea from another Samba members thread.

Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:28 am

TheShane wrote: TheRustySuper wrote: It's a really neat shop, I'm right next to Louisville, and that's where my brother got both of his guitars. And I love the paint, I'm not much of a hippie but I've always loved that style of paint on a bus as well. Looks really solid as well, my Beetle has spent a lot of its life here in KY but wasn't so lucky. Like the thread and what you're doing with the bus!

Thanks man, there isn't enough VW'ers in KY. I did find the Central KY VW Club located in Somerset, KY. I joined them a couple of weeks ago, its growing really fast and they have already had one show and have another coming up May 15th. I noticed Louisville is having Water By The Bridge coming up pretty soon, I'm thinking about going to it but I guess we'll see, I'll have to cut my spring break short a day.

You should go to Water by the Bridge, I'm gonna be there with my Super! You can register online here. I'll have to check out that club as well, I've joined the River City Oil Drippers and it's growing as well.

Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:19 pm

that's a real good looking bus. looks like great progress and i bet the sunroof is just plain fun. how do you like driving an automatic?

Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:08 pm

Lookin good dude. I haven't been here in like a year and I'm glad you and malibu are still representin'. I'm ready to pull my westy out of the garage and start wrenchin. Have any of you locals seen the 79 westy on the louisville craigslist for like $300, make the voices in my head stop please.

Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:28 am

TheRustySuper wrote: You should go to Water by the Bridge, I'm gonna be there with my Super! You can register online here. I'll have to check out that club as well, I've joined the River City Oil Drippers and it's growing as well.

If I find myself at the show I'll try and find you. After looking at the site I'm leaning toward going now.

Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:29 am

Vis wrote: that's a real good looking bus. looks like great progress and i bet the sunroof is just plain fun. how do you like driving an automatic?

Thank, man! The auto is really nice actually, I have no complaints on its performance. I would rather shift gears myself just because I like to but the auto has never let me down.

Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:32 am

dbo550 wrote: Lookin good dude. I haven't been here in like a year and I'm glad you and malibu are still representin'. I'm ready to pull my westy out of the garage and start wrenchin. Have any of you locals seen the 79 westy on the louisville craigslist for like $300, make the voices in my head stop please.

I did see the Westy.....I would probably own it right now if I had a way to transport it and a place to store it. Unless its just a real heap, most people around here want crazy prices for their VW's, seeing one for $300 is unheard of.

Thu May 06, 2010 8:54 pm

Hey man,

I can't remember if you said you finally got your new carbs are dialed in yet or not? Did you?

Fri May 07, 2010 8:30 am

MalibuLX3 wrote: Hey man,

I can't remember if you said you finally got your new carbs are dialed in yet or not? Did you?

Yeah, its been a while since I mentioned those. I got them tuned to the best of my ability but they still weren't up to par but good enough to drive. I ended up taking the bus to Stuttgarts just after spring break, which is the same place that installed the flex plate.

They still have some quirks but I feel they are already way better than the Weber Progressive I had on it.

Fri Dec 24, 2010 10:52 am

Like your bus, i have a 78 westy. I am looking for the flex plate bolts for the AT. Do you know where i can get them? I am rebuilding the engine and had to chisel them to get them out.

Fri Dec 24, 2010 11:11 am

reb517 wrote: Like your bus, i have a 78 westy. I am looking for the flex plate bolts for the AT. Do you know where i can get them? I am rebuilding the engine and had to chisel them to get them out.

I looked on ETKA online. Hard to know which bolts you killed. They appear to be:

Centers
part # 021105305A M12x1, 5x19

Outside
part 003323699A M8X11

Look at the heads of the bolts to see the hardness. 10.9 or 12.9 probably