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 Everett's 1963 15-Window Deluxe
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January 29, 2012 • Removed front seats, cleaned and vacuumed up all old horsehair and junk, reinstalled front seats
January 28, 2012 • New front seats
November 6, 2011 • Installed replacement voltage regulator
October 22-23,2011 • Located and installed new middle seat
September 29, 2011 • Installed green seat belts
July 27, 2011 • Driver's door lock cylinder snapped in 1/2 from old repair.  Replaced with nice original from my door handle stash after I rekeyed it to the correct code.
July 19, 2011 • Cleaned up a pair of green seat belts I located recently
June 8, 2011 • Topped off steering box fluid
• Cleaned up starter solenoid connections
June 4, 2011 • Tune-up - set valves, changed oil, installed new distributor cap, points, set dwell and timing, greased front end, set link pins, rotated tires, oiled hinges
• Installed new heater hose seals
• Installed new cargo door seals
March 31, 2011 • Upgraded driver's side sun visor with a piece I found at Phoenix Bugorama 2011
November 23, 2010 • Installed clamps on heater box tubes for winter
October 16, 2010 • Replaced reduction box bearing
• Replaced wheel cylinder bolt, it broke
October 15, 2010 • Cleaned and painted brake backing plate
October 14, 2010 • Rear left drum getting hot.  Outer reduction box bearing is bad, pulled parts for replacement
 
October 9, 2010 • Replaced left rear axle seal
October 7, 2010 • Tune-up, replaced fan belt
• Secured fuel pump outlet
June 10, 2010 • Cleaned axle tubes
• Installed camber compensator
• Installed new upper cargo door body seal
• Waxed bus and roof
• Misc. clean up.
June 9, 2010 • Cleaned up fuse box
• Checked and set timing, etc.
June 8, 2010 • Played with pop-out seals a little more.  Reinstalled left side rear pop-out window after adjusting seal
• "Upgraded" Bus to big spoon pop-out latches in rear
June 7, 2010 • Assembled left side rear pop-out window, installed with new seals.

• Removed right side rear pop-out window, had to drill 2 lower screws.  Installed new outer seal
June 6, 2010 • Installed new steering column seal
June 5, 2010 • Installed new clutch pivot arm and clip
• Pulled motor, found pressure plate and throw-out bearing broken, replaced all parts
Broken!
Robbed 200mm pressure plate from my spare engine
• Installed new clutch adjustment nuts
• Misc. engine clean up
• Replaced some unsatisfactory wire ends on 6v starter relay
• Installed accelerator cable guide tube I found recently
• Installed new engine/rear apron seal

• Replaced choke/cutoff valve/coil wire and connections with a new piece
 
• Installed "new" front splash pan
May 2, 2010 • Pulled clutch cable, removed clutch pivot arm.  Pivot arm has some wear, need new one.

• Installed front clutch cable seal, ran cable.

• Dug out "new" splash pan for Bus from my cabinets, original has a piece torched off by rear of reservoir.
• Cleaned and ran die over slash pan bolts and re-tapped nuts on body.
• Drilled out and re-tapped one broken bolt.
May 1, 2010 • Greased accelerator linkage, noticed repro seal is cracked and repro linkage already has some wear.
• Clutch pedal squeaky lately.  Pulled clutch cable, pulled clutch pedal.  Disassembled and greased clutch pedal shaft.  Cleaned and reinstalled clutch cable.  Clutch not working right now, must investigate.

• Greased drag link while pedal pan was off.
April 29, 2010 • Disassembled blue-white pop-out frame.  Had to drill 3 of the 4 screws.  Test fit glass and seals but need to buy a 3.5mm x .6 tap first to clean up threads.
April 28, 2010 • Received near mint original blue-white pop-out window frame
• Drilled and disassembled spare pop-out window with VW/Sigla glass to transfer to new frame

• Set new frame screws soaking in PB Blaster.  One came out immediately.
April 22, 2010 • Clean, polished, and installed nicer fuse box cover I found at Kelley Park 2010 show

• Installed NOS valve cover bales I found recently
April 21, 2010 • Hammered out passenger front wheel well dent - came out nice

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• Popped out rear corner dent (hard to see difference in photos, but popped right out)

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• Hammered out cargo door crease  (not a great result but better looking overall)

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• Cleaned and installed missing chrome trim on rear cargo door interior panel

• Fixed chrome trim on front cargo door interior panel, it was missing 1 clip so it was popping off
March 6, 2010 • Adjusted passenger side axle boot
• Fixed starter relay
• Misc. clean up and waxing.
February 9, 2010 • Change oil, set valves, set timing, changed air cleaner oil, greased front end.
• Reinstalled left side hard line mount on fan shroud.
• Noticed 2 front shock lower mounts were loose.  Installed lock washers and tightened.

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