What did you do to your off-road VW today?

joescoolcustoms · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 4:40 pm Post subject:

I built tropheys for a upcoming car show my VW club is putting on. I did it in the same garage that my two baja's are in.
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Failproof · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 5:07 pm Post subject:

Mal evolent · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 1:25 pm Post subject:

put the disc brake rotors on the thing spindles. right up to the part where you put the hub caps on. I dented the right hub cap; it hangs up on the wheel bearing retainer nut and the rotor won't turn. left one just flat won't go on. 48.13 mm inside, rotor is 48.53 mm. apparently .4 mm interference fit is too much interference and not enough fit.
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tdonaldson · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 6:33 pm Post subject:

Ordered some wheel bearings. Went for a nice drive yesterday to see how it rolled with complete preheat, full size front tires, and the newly aligned tie rods.

Felt a little different, followed by distraction as I drove through a thunderstorm, followed by a clacking as the right inner bearing ate itself.

70 mile tow later. Keys left somewhere out in BFE.

So tomorrow I'll be putting in a new inner bearing and ignition, Lol.

Bottom part of inner bearing looked like Christmas ribbon, but it didn't seem to get through the outer race, or thrash the stub.

On the upside I managed to use some jumpers cable to bridge some things and got it up in the garage from the rollback before the getting drenched in rain a fifth time that day.
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shok · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 10:10 pm Post subject:

Replaced the rusty valve covers with new ones, chrome unfortunately and changed the big pulley for one with numbers so my lame ass can time the motor more accurately. Runs better than ever now.
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larryvance66 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 6:43 pm Post subject:

shok · Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:27 pm Post subject:

I did the best thing today, I drove it!
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The Phil · Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:40 pm Post subject:

shok · Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:35 pm Post subject:

Well mine barely ran 3weeks ago, this carb change has done a lot to reignite my VW enthusiasm. Up til now I didn't trust driving the thing around the block.
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ZARJDR · Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 10:29 pm Post subject:

On Sat I replaced the points, which had closed on me once, and then started
scatter firing and pitting the next day. This morning I replaced the coil, followed by a test drive which smoked the brand new points from yesterday.
Limped it home, yanked a set of points from a distributor I had laying
around, put them in, set the gap, and took a 2 1/2 hour mob all over the county. good to go for another work week.(daily driver)
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tdonaldson · Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 4:49 am Post subject:

Replaced the inner wheel bearing that had went out, and put in the new ignition. In the process I cleaned up the brake hardware some, and rebuilt one of the CVs. I knew I probably needed it, because I accidentally poured gasoline all over it twice last fall. What I didn't suspect was that the grease was broke down into an almost liquid state. Never made any noise, probably been a couple thousand miles on it that way. Lol
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Dreaded1 · Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:07 am Post subject:

Tried to order a b/j front beam and was told that it would not mount up correctly because I currently have a link pin beam installed. I was baffeld so I didn't order it. Time for more research.

mondodestructo · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 5:30 pm Post subject: progress

Insured it. filled out registration paperwork. on the road soon!
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Vanapplebomb · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 5:42 pm Post subject:

Gutted one of my grungy trailing arms I got from a dude in Oklahoma a while back.

Time to clean 'em up and beef 'em for use on my rail project. All the internals were completely shot. New bearings and seals are on my shopping list. Fortunately the bare arms are in great shape, just a little surface rust that comes off real easy.

fun, fun, fun!

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ZARJDR · Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 3:27 pm Post subject:

Took my engine down to the cylinders, with the heads off I installed
new pushrod tubes and seals. Changed out the oil screen and gaskets,
put a new copper o-ring on the drain plug, and reassembled it. Ran it
around the neighborhood on some backroads until she was fully warmed
up, brought it home and parked it in the driveway for the first time ever
without a drain pan underneath her. Soooooo nice! But boy what a long day.
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Erik Litchy · Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 9:25 pm Post subject:

didnt do anything. my friend is fixing it. out of action for a while..waiting on a case
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bartman · Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 10:35 pm Post subject:

I drove it to the beach. The section of beach we were on was for 4 wheel drive only. The guy taking money to drive on the beach actually asked me if it was 4 wheel drive. I said, " yep". He said, "Great! Go on in."

We were driving along and came across some guy in a pickup, stuck in the sand. We idled right on by as he was getting out the shovel. I love this car.
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drnewman · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 12:59 pm Post subject:

After a very loooong period of being put on hold...I FINALLY got mine out of the garage! I still have lights, wiring, and a bunch of misc. things to do...but WHEW! It made into the sunlight for the first time in over a year. Very Happy

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pafree · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:56 pm Post subject:

blew a ball joint at the lease last week. being a full moon period this week i decided to bring it to the house and make a few changes. i had a complete beam with better ball joints at the house to put on the car.

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was having trouble with one of the door hinges on the passenger side. it was rusted and more or less stopped working. i replaced the hinge with one from the hardware store. kind gives it that jeep hinge look.

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when the ball joint went it took out one of the fenders so my daughter and i cut the front end back to give more fender clearance. there are lots of stumps, deep ditches and pine tree rows at the lease to go over so the added frontend clearance will help. didn't know how seasoned the buggy was til i started cutting and could smell hogs in the dried mud coming off the metal.

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it is ready to go back to work. we have gotten two in the last two weeks and there are lots more out there.

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