TheSamba.com

http://backend.userland.com/rss092 TheSamba.com http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/ TheSamba.com Forums everettb@thesamba.com everettb@thesamba.com Sat, 25 May 2013 04:36:09 GMT Stories :: RE: Things my VW taught me http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6676888#6676888 Author: <a href="http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=268850" target="_blank">zombiebug</a><br /> Posted: Yesterday 1:25 pm (GMT -7)<br /> Topic Replies: 72<br /><br /> <span class="postbody">My VW has taught me to never give up. Take this afternoon for example, My bug has a "thing" against this one spot on the highway. Every time I am in this lane of this stretch of the highway something goes wrong with my fuel pump. Think i would learn? Nope <img src="http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" /> Originally the pump died completely. Well this time the little pin popped out. Once I figured out what was wrong I tried to put it back in. Pin did not want to go back at all. I had friends out looking for a replacement pump while I was messing with it on the side of the highway. A state trooper pulled up to ensure I was ok. I told him the issue and that I had friends coming to help. He just looked at me and asked "Son do you know how to fix this?" I looked at him and smiled and replied "Yes sir, if I can get a new pump I will be gone shortly" He smirked and said "Good luck" before returning to his cruiser to drive off. Very professional. Anyway after some time of messing with this pin it drove me crazy. I remembered seeing a photo of the dipstick in place of the fuel pump. So I put my dipstick in there and the bug fired right up. Drove it three miles until the crank decided it wanted to try and eat the dipstick. Luckily it didn't but I wasn't going to risk that again. if I had dual carbs I could have wired that dipstick in and drove it home. <br /> <br /> Once this happened I had enough. I pulled the dizzy out with the bracket to hold my timing. Then unbolted the fuel pump and held the arm in place while I hammered in the pin with my ratchet. I didn't have a hammer. After a while of hammering and checking the alignment of the lever and pin I got the pin in there correctly. I cut some JB weld and applied it to either side of the pin. By the time I was finished packing up my tools wiping my hands the JB weld was dry. I started it up and drove home triumphant. Came home checked my timing to ensure it was correct and checked my "patch" everything is good. I have ordered a new fuel pump for safety and will JB weld the pin in before I put it on. <br />_________________<br />'74 Super</span><br /> Stories :: RE: Who Remembers The 80s CAL-STYLE http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6676770#6676770 Author: <a href="http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=163157" target="_blank">j8bug</a><br /> Posted: Yesterday 12:03 pm (GMT -7)<br /> Topic Replies: 1640<br /><br /> <span class="postbody">[quote="j8bug"]</span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>j8bug wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>twinwindows wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Here is how I see it. With today`s builds and ideas some crazy stupid and some crazy nice, back in the day we didn`t have to many cars to compare with and get ideas for our own future builds. <span style="font-weight: bold">We were creating the look and it took off from there.</span></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> CRG, Has said it best^! Here's a 3rd pic of that early-80s California Volksmen Bus. You can see all kinds of stuff being tried on it. Some stuck some didnt but "We were creating the look and it took off from there!" <br /> <a href="http://s1157.photobucket.com/user/j8bug/media/volk_zps9684d68e.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="postlink"><img src='http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p584/j8bug/volk_zps9684d68e.jpg' border='0' onload="javascript:if(this.width > 750){ this.height = Math.round((750/this.width)*this.height); this.width = 750; }" onclick="javascript:window.open('http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p584/j8bug/volk_zps9684d68e.jpg','','scrollbars=1,toolbar=0,resizable=1,menubar=0,directories=0,status=0')" alt="Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen." title="Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen." /></a> <br /> The Concept <br /> <br /> <a href="http://s1157.photobucket.com/user/j8bug/media/cooks1_zps86ea4540.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="postlink"><img src='http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p584/j8bug/cooks1_zps86ea4540.jpg' border='0' onload="javascript:if(this.width > 750){ this.height = Math.round((750/this.width)*this.height); this.width = 750; }" onclick="javascript:window.open('http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p584/j8bug/cooks1_zps86ea4540.jpg','','scrollbars=1,toolbar=0,resizable=1,menubar=0,directories=0,status=0')" alt="Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen." title="Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen." /></a> <br /> Cookie Cutters <br /> <br /> <a href="http://s1157.photobucket.com/user/j8bug/media/victorm1_zps8d7dd284.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="postlink"><img src='http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p584/j8bug/victorm1_zps8d7dd284.jpg' border='0' onload="javascript:if(this.width > 750){ this.height = Math.round((750/this.width)*this.height); this.width = 750; }" onclick="javascript:window.open('http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p584/j8bug/victorm1_zps8d7dd284.jpg','','scrollbars=1,toolbar=0,resizable=1,menubar=0,directories=0,status=0')" alt="Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen." title="Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen." /></a> <br /> Big & little <br /> <br /> <a href="http://s1157.photobucket.com/user/j8bug/media/cooks_zpsac2a62c8.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="postlink"><img src='http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p584/j8bug/cooks_zpsac2a62c8.jpg' border='0' onload="javascript:if(this.width > 750){ this.height = Math.round((750/this.width)*this.height); this.width = 750; }" onclick="javascript:window.open('http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p584/j8bug/cooks_zpsac2a62c8.jpg','','scrollbars=1,toolbar=0,resizable=1,menubar=0,directories=0,status=0')" alt="Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen." title="Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen." /></a> <br /> Deeps all-around <br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold">Creating the look to everyday way of life! </span>We got this late 80s pic of another Old Memories Car Club ride getting the Cal-Style treatment. By the late 80s it was still an everyday way of life for some diehard 80s kids that didnt jumpship to mini-trucks. This Micro wound up terrorizing the streets of SoCal into the 90s and probably wound up in a magazine by then. <br /> <a href="http://s1157.photobucket.com/user/j8bug/media/942706_528033217253127_1407698392_n_zpscd472726.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="postlink"><img src='http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p584/j8bug/942706_528033217253127_1407698392_n_zpscd472726.jpg' border='0' onload="javascript:if(this.width > 750){ this.height = Math.round((750/this.width)*this.height); this.width = 750; }" onclick="javascript:window.open('http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p584/j8bug/942706_528033217253127_1407698392_n_zpscd472726.jpg','','scrollbars=1,toolbar=0,resizable=1,menubar=0,directories=0,status=0')" alt="Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen." title="Image may have been reduced in size. Click image to view fullscreen." /></a> <br /> <br /> <br /> . <br />_________________<br />Frank Ochoa said; "I still have my convertible bug from high school. Now that Gramps is out Im going to make some changes but Im still going to keep it Cal-Style, you know, all original but lowered with some alloys" <br /> <br /> Fred one of the original members of The Bus Boyz said; "We were the first to ever Cal-Style a Bus.. No one was doing it back then".</span><br />