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beetleseb Samba Member
Joined: November 09, 2006 Posts: 430 Location: Cheltenham UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:41 am Post subject: front bulkhead help please |
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Hi
I'm fitting a gerson front bulkhead to my june 50 and am struggling to get it to fit.
My car had a front ender in 1966 so I may be fighting that. Can anyone measure the width of the front bulkhead at the top and bottom please. Not a repro one but a good one or a nos one
I realise this may be complex as the tunnel gets in the way but if anyone can help I would be a lot less stressed!!!!
Seb _________________ Wanted - OG 50 split bug door panels, brown mats and old running boards |
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beetleseb Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:30 am Post subject: |
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Can anyone help? _________________ Wanted - OG 50 split bug door panels, brown mats and old running boards |
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beetleseb Samba Member
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Grant Reiling Samba Slow-Change Artist
Joined: November 28, 2003 Posts: 491 Location: behind the wheel
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, these guys are an amazing resource; Had my '52 11G stored with them over the last 5 years...until I bought a house here in NorCal and wanted it back in time for the Treffen. It has front bulkhead "issues" and I now wish I'd waited so THEY could give it their magic touch. Ah well, where there's a hill there's a way...
Best luck on your project + a Happy New Years & prosperous 2012 to you,
-G _________________ 1952 Azure Blue 12G (LHD Deluxe 3-fold sunroof Sedan).
"What you really know is possible in your heart is possible.
We make it possible by our will.
What we imagine in our minds becomes our world. That’s just one of many things I have learned from water."
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nlorntson Crazy VW Lady
Joined: March 13, 2004 Posts: 3783 Location: Twin Cities, MN
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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We have our 49 body on a rotisserie right now and a 55 body hanging from the ceiling. I'll see If I can get some measurements for you in the next day or so.
Besides width, do you also need to know dimensions in relations to the front or back?
We may also have some actual frame dimensions in some of the books at the shop.
I'll ask hubby and post them if we do. |
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beetleseb Samba Member
Joined: November 09, 2006 Posts: 430 Location: Cheltenham UK
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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That would be fantastic
Heres a bad picture of the bulkhead
The channels fitted perfectly on the untouched chassis before the bulkhead pulled them inwards by 10-20mm
I'm really hoping the gerson panel is just too narrow at the bottem then its an easy fix. If not then it must be the shape of the heater channels
Seb _________________ Wanted - OG 50 split bug door panels, brown mats and old running boards |
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beetleseb Samba Member
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Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 7:44 am Post subject: |
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I spent a fun morning measuring up a stunning 54 ragtop and it looks like my home made heater channel sections are to blame. The bulkhead should be 750mm,so its not far off at all.
The joys ot restoring a rusty 50 with crash damage from 66 _________________ Wanted - OG 50 split bug door panels, brown mats and old running boards |
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nlorntson Crazy VW Lady
Joined: March 13, 2004 Posts: 3783 Location: Twin Cities, MN
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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beetleseb wrote: |
The bulkhead should be 750mm |
I confirmed this 750mm measurement on our 49, same measurement a the top corners. Also, if it helps, from the center of each of the two outer bolt holes on fronts of each heater channel across is 698mm.
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beetleseb Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:19 am Post subject: |
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Thanks
I'm spending a cold day huddled by the welder so hopefully she will be sorted soon
Seb _________________ Wanted - OG 50 split bug door panels, brown mats and old running boards |
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