My weekend warrior 1970 baja bug build

oldcrow · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 1:08 pm Post subject:

I know how you feel when it comes to cleaning and painting parts that were taken off ( i'm in the same process) your build is looking great. keep us posted

TDCTDI · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 8:09 pm Post subject:

TDCTDI · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 8:16 pm Post subject:

Jubbly Bug · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 10:50 am Post subject:

TDCTDI · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 1:26 pm Post subject:

Cool caravan but finishing it first is kinda like putting the cart ahead of the horse isn't it? Laughing

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oldcrow · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 4:25 pm Post subject:

you need to modify the little camper to seething like this

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2K...s&tt=b

TDCTDI · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 7:35 pm Post subject:

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Since I plan to use factory length brake hose (for ease of replacement), I'm making the brake line longer, to determine the length it needs to be, I jacked up the front & turned the wheel hard lock to the right to make sure the brake hose had some slack.

Then I cut the line roughly 1/4" longer to compensate for the flare end.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.

GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!

An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.

Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

Jubbly Bug · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:16 am Post subject:

Yes but I needed a brake from the bug , id love to jack it up with off road tyres but the wife said no Crying or Very sad

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Jim keep up the good work buddy

TDCTDI · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:13 am Post subject:

I got the brake lines done for both sides (it only takes 10-15 minutes to fab them up, but it takes much longer when trying to take pics & load those pics). I installed a new master cylinder & got excited about the prospect of being able to drive the beast for the first time (master cylinder was seized & nothing worked). However once I added fluid & started trying to bleed the system, I heard a "squirt/shluck" noise every time I depressed & released the brake pedal.

I pulled the floor mat back & confirmed my suspicions, I'm not done fabricating brake lines yet.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.

GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!

An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.

Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

TDCTDI · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 6:28 pm Post subject:

Here's the source of my fluid leak.

And while removing the rest of the line, I found where someone had used one of those damned compression fittings. Considering how easy it is to fabricate brake lines, there is no reason to use these, they are dangerous.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.

GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!

An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.

Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

TDCTDI · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:29 pm Post subject:

I finally got to fab up the brake line to the rear, here's the front.

Here's the line going towards the rear.

And perhaps the most aggravating fastener on the car, the flare nut to the T junction above the rear torsion housing.

Unfortunately, it looks like I'll be replacing floor pans too. So keep tuned in to see how I replace them without body removal.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.

GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!

An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.

Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

TDCTDI

Have a happy & safe thanksgiving y'all.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.

GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!

An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.

Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

TDCTDI

Well, I lied. I finally had a chance to do some work on the beast this morning (since the samba was down). I decided to remove the body to replace the pans.I unbolted the body to remove it only to find that the previous owner welded his pan patch panels to the passenger rocker (grrr).

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.

GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!

An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.

Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

TDCTDI

So I cut a slot in his patch job with a die grinder so I could finesse a sawzall blade into & separated the pan from the body.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.

GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!

An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.

Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

TDCTDI · Last edited by TDCTDI on Sat Mar 05, 2016 4:23 pm; edited 1 time in total

Got the body off finally.

After removing the pedal assembly & my new brake line, I removed the pedal stop & saved it.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.

GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!

An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.

Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

dustymojave

Are you going to have to do repairs to the rocker/heater channel of the body to fix where you had to cut the weld?
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Richard
Offroading VW based cars since 1965
Tech Inspection 1963 - 2012 SCCA/SCORE/HDRA/MORE/MDR +
Retired from building Bajas, Fiberglass Buggies and Rails in the Mojave Desert. Also Sprints & Midgets, Dry Lakes, Road Race cars. All types New and Vintage
SoCalBajas Member
Kicked Cancer's A$$...1st and 2nd round...Fight ain't over yet.

TDCTDI

Hey, Richard. Technically, no, I was able to strategically wield the sawzall so as not to damage the rocker. However, the rear package shelf & some other parts were pretty rough.

There's the package tray on top of the trans. While the body is usable, I'm going to shelve it for now, I've got another to slip over the pan. Unfortunately I will be removing the widened beam & going to a class 11 look while retaining the thing arms & spindles.

Here's the carpet threatening to dump the "speaker box" on everything below.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.

GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!

An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.

Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

dustymojave

Did you put your Bug on Jennie Craig? Trying to lose a few pounds?
Wink

Or as I heard a guy say on a video making fun of ricers...

"Got a few rust spots. Let that shit go, drop a few pounds."

Laughing

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Richard
Offroading VW based cars since 1965
Tech Inspection 1963 - 2012 SCCA/SCORE/HDRA/MORE/MDR +
Retired from building Bajas, Fiberglass Buggies and Rails in the Mojave Desert. Also Sprints & Midgets, Dry Lakes, Road Race cars. All types New and Vintage
SoCalBajas Member
Kicked Cancer's A$$...1st and 2nd round...Fight ain't over yet.

TDCTDI

Only if that diet was Swiss cheese. To

I started by cutting the front section of the floor out, trimming close to the flange along the tunnel & "nepoleans hat".

This crappy pic shows just how bad the floors were.

Then I carefully cut between the seat track & the tunnel flange because I intend on reusing the original seat tracks because the aftermarket ones suck in both quality & fit.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.

GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!

An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.

Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

TDCTDI

Finally, I got the remnants of the pan cut off.

The next step, for me anyway, is to chisel the leftover strip of the old pan off of the flange. I always hated looking at a car that someone put pans in & left that little jagged piece of rusty metal.

This also makes sure that you have something substantial to weld the new pans to.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.

GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!

An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.

Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.


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