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Sat Aug 22, 2015 3:56 am

Since I'm fitting a tach I moved the clock over to the passenger side and left it as 6v never even bothering to see if it worked or not when I restored the gauges....why I didn't just doesn't make any sense right now but in any case I ended up with a 12v T3 clock for parts to make my tach and decided to see if the movement worked but no potatoe. bummer.

Looked on the samba and came across the clock repair guide and sure enough mine had the "blown" fuse deal going on and I thought A HA! that's it! Re soldered the link but still no joy. Closed the contact manually and re connected 12v to see it energise and wind up the mechanism but no tickety tick......closed the contacts again and sprayed the gears and moving parts with spray oil manually operating the gears back and forth, tried again and wadda ya know, success!
Quite neat to watch it work and wind up every minute or so, seems to keep accurate time as well so far.

With the 12v movement working I took the clock apart and swapped out the 6v movement converting the clock to 12v.
Not overly useful or productive but quite neat for it too work.

Sat Aug 22, 2015 7:38 am

reay wrote: t3kg wrote: Anco and Trico seem to be the two companies that still make refills. Not sure if they will fit the Bosch blade holders or not.

These actually say they are not for Anco holders.

I've got some SWF rubber refills for T-3s if you still have your original blades... Would a couple of these help John?

Sat Aug 22, 2015 3:13 pm

Thanks for the offer Bob, I think the new SWF blades I got and painted silver are going to work just fine so I'll stick with those.
What I do need is a 12V wiper motor......

In saying that I removed both the push button dash and the wiper motor yesterday in order to bench test things to help understand what the f*&k is going on, here's what I think. The voltage dropper will not allow enough current to pass through it to satisfy the motor.
I ended up wiring in series a 6V 45W bulb (should be around 7.5amps draw) with the wiper motor and with that it runs at about the right speed, could be a little faster so a higher wattage bulb will allow more current.

I also tried a 6v 21W bulb which made it run slower confirming what I thought.
Now a 45w bulb glowing under the dash isn't all that appealing so some sort of current limiter would be needed.

Sun Oct 18, 2015 3:17 pm

Stainless..........fresh off the plane.

Sun Oct 18, 2015 4:46 pm

Seat knob went out early last week.

Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:40 pm

racoguy wrote: Stainless..........fresh off the plane.

Beautiful. 8) Are they from PTT?

Mon Oct 19, 2015 12:47 am

I was getting worried you'd forgotten the project there for a while with all your other goings on :)
Hoped to grab a chat yesterday but you left before I caught up with you.

Love the shiny new bumpers, fingers crossed they fit better than the Type 14 ones Kiwighia and I have.

Mon Oct 19, 2015 1:29 am

Bobnotch wrote: racoguy wrote: Stainless..........fresh off the plane.

Beautiful. 8) Are they from PTT?

No these are made by Harrington

Mon Oct 19, 2015 2:26 am

racoguy wrote: Bobnotch wrote: racoguy wrote: Stainless..........fresh off the plane.

Beautiful. 8) Are they from PTT?

No these are made by Harrington

Great choice

Mon Oct 19, 2015 8:06 pm

I couldn't find those bumpers from their website, are those custom made to you?

Wed Feb 10, 2016 3:25 am

simppa wrote: I couldn't find those bumpers from their website, are those custom made to you?

http://www.groupharrington.com/en/part/929/vw-karmann-ghia-t34-bumpers.html

Wed Apr 06, 2016 3:25 am

Hi John, how is the progress on your resto, have seen any posts for a while.

I have started restoring my T34, unfortunately mine was in an bad accident previously with shoddy repairs and it affected the structural integrity and door openings amongst other things.

I have a 5mm difference between one side to the other. Do you have any measuremnts for your door openings, from the front door pillar to the striker?

I don't know which side is correct because both sides of the car were hit.

Thu Jul 07, 2016 3:07 am

Long time, no see. Any updates>?

Wed Jul 05, 2017 5:14 am

An year later... racoguy, are you OK buddy? Any news here?

Wed Jul 05, 2017 8:14 am

WOW! Great work! Really like the look of these T34s and this one is super nice!

Wed Jul 05, 2017 8:37 am

Disc wrote: An year later... racoguy, are you OK buddy? Any news here?

I believe he's got it up and running, but don't know any more than that.

Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:01 am

Yeah, what the hey?? :D

This picture was posted to another thread a couple of days ago..

Wed Jul 05, 2017 3:49 pm

Clatter wrote: Yeah, what the hey?? :D

This picture was posted to another thread a couple of days ago..

Yeah! He's enjoying his type 34.

Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:46 am

Indeed it runs and drives, still tuning to do on the ecu but so far runs ok on a stock standard Golf GTI ecu which is pretty encouraging.
Have a bunch of things I'm not happy with but will remove those parts and rectify those.
One of them is the windshield seals, the trim does not sit in the middle of the Simon Kelley seals but so far have not found a better solution.

Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:04 am

racoguy wrote:
Do not fear friend, lots of engine related posts to come.....I have a vast plethora of ideas to carry out :lol:

:popcorn:

:P