Refurbishing my Old Buggy

Kman1983 · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 5:42 pm Post subject:

After a week in Tulare, Ca, 2 weeks in Seattle and a week traveling from the Midwest through Nashville I got back today. After all the years I finally scraped through enough to find the VIN. Turns out the pan was built in August of 1961, first month of the 1962 models.
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Kman1983 · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:52 pm Post subject:

I am working in Akron, Ohio this week so I drove out a day early and made it to the second day of the Buckeye German Jubilee at Jim's Custom VW in Columbiana, Ohio. I had a good time and talked to some real nice folks. I heard the swap meet was better on Saturday but I am glad I was able to make it there today! From Jim's I picked up a flywheel holder, Polyurethane steering coupler, 17mm drain plug tool, Adjustable shift rod coupler and a new brake light switch.

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Kman1983 · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:57 pm Post subject:

I got a pair of spoked wheels for $35. that have a pair of 235/75-15's on them. I will swap the tires for a more aggressive set. I will sandblast and paint the rims of course.

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Kman1983 · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:00 pm Post subject:

I also picked up a 1970 dual relief 1600 single port case. I am hoping this will be a buildable case I can use a bunch of my 1500 parts on. I only gave $45. for it.

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Kman1983 · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:03 pm Post subject:

My pan has never had the shift rod coupler cover so I snagged one for a dollar.

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ORANGECRUSHer · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:30 am Post subject:

Kman1983 · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:58 pm Post subject:

To be honest I haven't even had a chance to use it due to my hectic work/travel schedule. That and the 1 3/4" .095 tubing I had grew legs and walked away. I was very disappointed when I saw the "Made in China" sticker on it. I was under the impression Eastwoods stuff was made in the US, I was wrong. Had I known that I probably would have just bought the Harbor Freight one. A friend of mine bought a tubing notcher from Speedway motors back in the 90's. It worked great never had an issue with it and we notched a LOT of tubing for our stockcars with it!
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Kman1983 · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 12:30 pm Post subject:

I dropped off the '70 1600 case at Jim's Custom VW. He inspected the case and is going to line bore it for me. I bought a 1600 crank and rod assembly from Jordan Cyr here on the Samba Classifieds.
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Kman1983 · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:50 pm Post subject:

I have a stock dished cam and lifter set on it's way for this second engine. My game plan is to put this engine together this winter. Basically a 1500 if my old cylinders and pistons are reusable, if not it will be a 1600 with my old single port heads. I will have to see if any of our Neway valve seat cutters match up with the VW valve sizes. If not I will get out the old Thor seat grinding equipment.
I have been researching the "Dog House" cooling shrouds and may go with that as I see this as a low RPM engine. Any thoughts or input on these? I am thinking about an after market shroud and install the flappers/vents in it.
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Kman1983 · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:26 am Post subject:

While sitting in my motel room in Seattle I came across this video on modifying the Harbor Freight Tubing Notcher. I'll have to check out these items on the Eastwood notcher.

http://youtu.be/Ty915Z0GrJo
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Kman1983 · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:39 pm Post subject:

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Kman1983 · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:43 pm Post subject:

Picked up the '70 VW 1600 case from Jim's Custom VW. Line bored and thrust cut. The box inside contains the new main bearings.
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Kman1983 · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 11:37 pm Post subject:

Well with all of the traveling I do for work I just have not had a chance to work on the buggy. Tonight I am sitting in a hotel room in Sacramento, CA and I ordered this tubing bender for my wife for Christmas

http://www.jd2.com/p-67-model-32-bender-manual.aspx

Video of it: http://youtu.be/I1cAaOkuvRs

Another video showing it bending 2" x .250 wall http://youtu.be/oQKER-XtYiQ

I ordered the manual bender and a 1 3/4", 180 degree tubing die. The dies are pricy so I figure we can add extra ones as we go. They also have dies to bend square tubing. My wife will be using it to build cages on her Jeeps and I will be able to bend up some side bars for the old buggy Very Happy

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ORANGECRUSHer · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:03 am Post subject:

In hindsight I wish I had saved up for that model. I don't really have anywhere to mount it though hence why I didn't. I have the affordable bender which is just about "good enough", but I miss the 180* option the most. Could definitely do more with that. I think you can get better CLR's than I can too.
Have fun with that! Cool

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Kman1983 · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2014 8:06 am Post subject:

Yeah, I really like the 180 degree bending capability! I had wanted a JD Squared Model 3 back when we were racing stockcars and I was going to order that one when I read the reference to the Model 32 being able to bend 1/4" tubing and decided to get the Model 32. I also ordered this mounting bracket from SWAG Off Road along with the Harbor Freight air over hydraulic 8 ton ram so that it will be a hydraulic bender rather than manual. http://youtu.be/q-M-GUO7yME

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Kman1983 · Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 5:32 pm Post subject:

Well not much has happened with the buggy. Although I worked from home the month of January I didn't have much free time. I made it home a few days in February and left again March 1st. It will be mid May before I get home again possibly Memorial day. I am currently sitting in a hotel in Downey, California.

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