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reay
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After scraping, brushing, and sanding - two coats of POR 15 on the pan
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Tom Reay
Da weiss man, was man hat!
68 Karmann Ghia Sunroof / auto T345
66 Standard Microbus T221
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t3kg
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Joined: June 14, 2006
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Location: Los Angeles
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reay
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Hunter is everywhere! 
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Tom Reay
Da weiss man, was man hat!
68 Karmann Ghia Sunroof / auto T345
66 Standard Microbus T221
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Gus Paul
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Joined: June 20, 2015
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Location: Fairbanks, AK
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| i just finished taking the seats out of my notch, i am going to start reupolstering them one the material gets here. |
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volkswagenHAM
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Joined: November 10, 2013
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Location: United States
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debating on running centerlines on my 68 squarebite.. any thoughts?
running o.g. rieveras at the moment 5.5" all around
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W1K1
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Location: Southern AB
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Mike Fisher
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Location: Eugene, OR
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I felt like the little guy parked next to the Monster Square! 
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69 FI/AT square Daily Driver
66 sunroof,67,70,71,71,71AT,72,72AT,73 Parts
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'68 Karmann Ghia sold
Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you end up with a lot of scum on the top! - Russ_Wolfe/Edward Abbey |
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vwboyz69
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Joined: June 12, 2015
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Location: Chino, CA
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took susanne to the doctor to get her tranny to work better bc she wouldn't stay parked and recently put some wrap arounds instead of the nipples turn signals  |
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KTPhil 
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Joined: April 06, 2006
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Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Pulled the engine out and mounted it on the stand for disassembly next weekend.
Then I'll measure the endplay and see if the bearing is loose in the case.
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loften
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Location: watsonville
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| i watched the rust, dust and mold grow a little more on the old Bowman 67 fasty.. |
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chaosisme
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Joined: August 29, 2005
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Location: Orange County, Ca
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Starting fixing up another trip speedo.
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W1K1
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Location: Southern AB
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sjbartnik
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Location: Brooklyn
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vwsplitvan
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Location: UK
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Finally got round to fitting the German Square weave carpet set I made a while back. What a transformation. Looks real nice
Now I want to make some overmats. Anyone know where I can buy the coco carpet that had the colour fleck in like the vintage sets?
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superalex
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Location: tavira, algarve, portugal, europe
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| strip of the old flaky roof paint until bare metal and applied a nice coat of primer filler |
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reay
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: Interiors stuff |
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Finally got round to fitting the German Square weave carpet set I made a while back. What a transformation. Looks real nice
Now I want to make some overmats. Anyone know where I can buy the coco carpet that had the colour fleck in like the vintage sets?
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I've been using Cocomats.com..they have a good selection, good products and are nice to work with.And, I think they already have a type 3 pattern.
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Da weiss man, was man hat!
68 Karmann Ghia Sunroof / auto T345
66 Standard Microbus T221
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Da TOW'D
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Location: Bella Coma Canada
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I had one of those DUH moments
I'm rebuilding a 1600 B cased engine to replace the 1500 with a bad #4 rod
thinking every thing would be good. I was planning on keeping the '62 Notch 6V and also planning on using the 1500 flywheel. Then I discovered different between the 1500 and 1600 flywheels beside the 6 / 12 teeth and O ring / paper / metal seal
so unless somebody has any suggestion it looks like I'll be converting to 12V.
Or Could the lip on the 1500 flywheel be machined off?
cheers
Hank
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OKType3Tim
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Location: Northeast Oklahoma
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I have 4 gas caps. One of the summer projects was to get them sorted, cleaned, and restored for two restoration projects I have underway. (A 69 Squareback and a 69 Fastback.) I don't have a before picture, but they were the typical worn out gasket, cad plating mostly worn off, but no rustiness. Three are from tear downs I have done, and one was purchased at a swap meet.
From left to right:
larger diameter (65mm outside) from a 68 fastback tear-down (restored, no new gasket yet)
smaller diameter (60mm) from swapmeet (restored, new gasket not on yet)
smaller diameter (60mm) from 69 fastback tear-down (restored, new gasket)
smaller diameter (60 mm) from 69 squareback tear-down (cleaned, not restored, new gasket)
Restoration process was:
Clean off any grease/oil dirt
VERY light pass with glass beads in blasting cabinet
Remove remaining CAD plating with acid dip
Neutralizing rinse
Clean water rinse
Zinc plate using Eastwood's tin zinc plating kit
Polish with Eastwood Simichrome
So here is cleaned but unrestored cap:
Here is newly plated and polished cap:
Plated before gasket:
Plated after gasket install. New gaskets available from Jay Salser here on TheSamba:
Of course, that doesn't get the "golden" CAD look back. But not all of these originally had the "golden" CAD; some had the "silver" CAD.
Also, anybody have insight into the the two different sizes? The parts book calls out a 65mm, but doesn't make mention of the switch to 60mm. Did I just happen to get cars that had Ghia gas caps? Or is there some other explanation?
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pedro sainz
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I had one of those DUH moments
I'm rebuilding a 1600 B cased engine to replace the 1500 with a bad #4 rod
thinking every thing would be good. I was planning on keeping the '62 Notch 6V and also planning on using the 1500 flywheel. Then I discovered different between the 1500 and 1600 flywheels beside the 6 / 12 teeth and O ring / paper / metal seal
so unless somebody has any suggestion it looks like I'll be converting to 12V.
Or Could the lip on the 1500 flywheel be machined off?
cheers
Hank |
Yes is a lot easier to machine the flywheel
but remember LEAVE enough lip so the O ring can stay
is NOT that much to cut and is NOT all the way either
store from Texas they have 6V flywheels with O rings
but the problem they are Lightweight and you what the Heavy Stock weight
and even better if you have a 200mm cluch plate
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Da TOW'D
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Pedro for president
I'll try to find a machinist and send both flywheels the 1500 and the 1600 to show the O ring
thanks for the tip
Hank
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