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Sun Aug 24, 2025 7:23 pm

OldSchoolVW's wrote: Scat Adams wrote: Steering wheel refresh;

Very nice! Where did you get the steering wheel cover? I haven't seen one like that in years.

Amazon, and yes its very old school. Took about an hour to stitch it. Here is a link, under $18 and its well made imo. Size L0

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJPX9MV9?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Mon Aug 25, 2025 9:24 am

spent the past 2 weekends polishing all the oxidized paint and then waxing. i had removed all the trim, bumpers and roof rack to get it all cleaned. spent sunday putting it all back carefully not mess up the work i did.

i was so exhausted from the work, and it was 100 degrees out, that i didnt take it for a drive

Sat Sep 13, 2025 6:10 pm

Got my butt kicked by the horn for a couple hours :lol: I'm new here. This is my first beetle. I quickly found the wiring is super simple for the horn but every terminal I touch just crumbles and everything is dirty and has corrosion blah blah. Just redid all the connections and it was good. I soldered the ground onto the steering shaft with some heat shrink over it. Figured that'll keep it from getting too dirty too quickly. We'll see!

Thu Sep 18, 2025 5:21 pm

Been chasing a hot running engine for far too long, decided to take matter in my own hands. Each night this week, spent about 1 hour in the evening doing little by little to take the engine out. As Dexter says, "Tonight's the night". I need to be more careful when taking the engine out as I didn't make sure the bottom bolts were fully out of transmission before lowering!

Pictures of what was found :shock:

Before:

Anybody want newly rebuilt Kadrons?

Thu Sep 18, 2025 10:07 pm

Brian, what's the plan now after you reattach the firewall bottom seal? Go to a stock carb & manifold, or upgrade to dual-throat carbs?

Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:32 am

Rome wrote: Brian, what's the plan now after you reattach the firewall bottom seal? Go to a stock carb & manifold, or upgrade to dual-throat carbs?
My next steps are that, put the new seal on and to pull the shroud off and install the proper hoover bit and the air flaps. The front tin doesn't appear to be super tight as I had hoped but will also add the seals for the oil cooler with the insulation and rubber seals as VW intended. Insert the proper metric bolt at driver's top side of engine, it was missing completely, been running on three of the four for who knows how long :roll:

As you could see in the first picture, the dual kadrons were on this engine based on advice from a local VW mechanic saying the engine will run cooler with the new arrangement. Well, while it ran okay, but not great as I could tell it needed more tuning and the motor still ran hot on a +80F day. That prompted me to take engine out to check everything as the good people of this forum have warned plenty that should be in place.

I also plan to also pack the C pillars with material to keep sound and stop air transmission between engine and cabin. When the dual carbs were added, I started smelling gas and fumes inside, not good.

And lastly, I'm going back to the single carb setup as I have all that is needed to complete this. I like the simplicity of a single carb.