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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 3:06 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

I bought a bug to restore. 69 shell on 60 chassis.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 5:15 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

mine are still down.still hot.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 2:06 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

Bought some LED headlights
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:40 am    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

Valves adjusted and oil changed after 300 (more like 425) miles on rebuilt engine. Idle returned after that.

Replaced the spot where the radio used to be with a new USB/BT one so the kid can charge his phone (and not hear so much from the back.) It was kinda cool when I synched my phone and hit Pandora, and the Eagles Hotel California is the first music out of the new system Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 7:10 am    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

Installed LED headlights, and LED illumination on the speedo. We can see again!

Putting the LED bulb in the license plate, found out nobody taped that lens off before painting and it's all green. Getting a new lens and gasket today, since the lens holes are cracked anyways.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:49 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

Dropped the engine and replaced the oil cooler seals. That fixed my massive oil leak. Next I did the heater cables, and fixed the two shorts in the back up light circuit. Now they work. Changed the oil.

A dirty but good day. Cool
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 7:39 am    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

this past weekend i installed a knew clutch cable felling good about finally getting my hands into my car guess its cause dont really have the money to send to the shop lol still having a problem with the peddle postions they hang to low now and to top it off my throttle isnt much of one any more i can floor it and it just slowly climbs not as responsive as it was hope i figure it out
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 9:27 am    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

Ripped out all the old insulation boards around the luggage compartment, scraped and brushed it clean, then lined it all with QuickRoof as sound deadener. Also makes for easier clean up. My son says it's a lot quieter, and he can actually hear music from the speakers
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 7:48 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

put on a new fan belt.

was amazed how much slower the idle speed is now.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 7:00 am    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

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My first beetle
My first time pulling an engine.

Went pretty well except for when the latch opened and subsequently the valve cover fell off. That and missing the trolley were the only hiccups. Would be so much easier if I had a 2nd pair of hands.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 2:06 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

Committed to cleaning the shop so I can pick back up on my restoration that I started a few years ago. Also checked disk brake conversion prices.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 5:12 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

I walked by it....it's got the day off, somebody with a shovel cut a bunch of my sprinkler pvc pipe's so...I had to do a pile of yard work today patching diging, trenching, cutting, glueing filling testing,digging fixing. it's amazing my yard is over 90 feet wide and more than that deep and I think every dam pipe was cut......in multiple places....I may need to throw away that defective shovel.... the sites must be off....or it's a pipe detector in disguize.. Wink atleast the pvc glue wasent dried up...and smelled good too Shocked I hope to give the bug a good work out tomarow as usually done everyday.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:46 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

I crawled under it to put a sponge in the oil cooler outlet, I had a look around and saw one oil drip forming from a rocker stud.....thats all. everything else was dry.I wonder now if it has any oil in it Shocked Rolling Eyes it's full.not bad for about 80000 miles.hard fun miles with 5-20 synthetic oil.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 9:38 am    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

put my ej22 in.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 8:05 am    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

Now that it's cold and wet all the time I am forever trying to make adjustments to windows and vents knobs/ levers to keep my windows clear of fogging grrrrrr!
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 7:56 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:47 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

Dash and interior too?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 6:09 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

sweet!!! but...whats up with the rear valance dent& fenders not lineing up?thats a nono!!!!! I already have that covered....I mpunted my front fenders&nose peice(all 3 glass) kinda wonkey to screw with the local asshole exspurts....it worked!!!!( my car was a baja,but I put old style flayered fronts&glass nose on it for better wind resistance....them baja fenders sure grab the wind.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 2016 9:33 am    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

Adjusted front brakes, flushed brake fluid and bled front brakes. Rear later.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 2016 3:47 pm    Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? Reply with quote

Fall tuneup and oil change, in balmy weather.
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