| ghialuv |
Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:35 pm |
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I'm just restoring my 1958 lowlight and I have no idea for what the round hole in the inner rear wheel housing is needed.
As I bought the car it was a broken restoration and some parts where in boxes and maybe the preowner has made some things I can't bring currently together.
I have ordered new piece of metal but the whole is not on the same place and looks like an rectangle. The dealer said it's from the later beetle but fits also.
Saving the original is impossible. The metal is to thin after blasting and I have to change it.
Can anyone tell me for what the whole is needed and can I use the sheet of metal from the beetle as it is or should I rework it in original style and original position?
Thanks ! |
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| c21darrel |
Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:10 pm |
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| heres a guess. Shock mounting bolt access. |
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| sactojesse |
Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:57 pm |
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c21darrel wrote: heres a guess. Shock mounting bolt access.
My thought as well. |
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| ghialuv |
Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:59 pm |
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Yes this was also my guess but for disassemble the shocks you do not need really this hole. I have checked it on the car from a friend.
...I'm confused ... |
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| ThreeSpeed |
Sat Dec 01, 2012 10:22 pm |
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Any chance you car came equipped with a gas heater? If so perhaps the round hole was the intake or exhaust? Although I suspect that this would mean the unit would be in the back seat.
Trevor |
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| 70 140 |
Sun Dec 02, 2012 6:57 am |
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I would guess shock mounting bolt as well - look at the photo below Gary posted a while ago - car is a 65.
I think the bigger question is - are you really going to use that terrible looking reproduction piece? Whoever made that should be ashamed.
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| carl4x4 |
Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:53 pm |
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If you do use the repro piece put seam sealer around the edge of the outer skin piece or water & mud gets behind there and rots it from the inside.
I'm pretty sure that's what happened to mine, by the time I got the car it had rotted through to the interior while the outside looked fine. |
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| berliner |
Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:18 pm |
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| That is the ugliest repop I've ever seen.I would contact HoG and get a piece out of a donor car;life will be much more pleasant. |
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| ghialuv |
Sun Dec 30, 2012 1:45 pm |
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berliner wrote: That is the ugliest repop I've ever seen.I would contact HoG and get a piece out of a donor car;life will be much more pleasant.
It was my badest part I've bought this year, because no other one was available at this time. Now I have welded in the damn metal piece and done it so good as I can. After sealing it's O.K.. Nobody will see it, if the wheel is fixed :-)
HoG is no adress for me. I often has asked questions in the past about availability or sending parts to Europe, but never got an answer. |
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