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Fri Nov 11, 2016 4:13 pm

can you still get the 3rd brake light decklid from gerson? only saw single cab ones on the kfab site

Fri Nov 18, 2016 4:50 am

emzee503 wrote: can you still get the 3rd brake light decklid from gerson? only saw single cab ones on the kfab site

I'm not sure if KlassicFab making them at this time.

Fri Nov 18, 2016 4:59 am

Surprising weekend for me and the bus. Enter BugJam and won 1st Place in type ll RatRod.

I'm not really into the competing thing, but feels good to know all the hard work did not go unnoticed.

The judges were very impressed with my undercarriage.

Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:24 am

emzee503 wrote: can you still get the 3rd brake light decklid from gerson? only saw single cab ones on the kfab site

Don't think there's anything different about a single cab decklid? Just about everything else from the front doors back is different apart from the frame components, but I'm pretty sure the decklid is the same?

Fri Nov 18, 2016 8:24 am

Who.Me? wrote: emzee503 wrote: can you still get the 3rd brake light decklid from gerson? only saw single cab ones on the kfab site

Don't think there's anything different about a single cab decklid? Just about everything else from the front doors back is different apart from the frame components, but I'm pretty sure the decklid is the same?

That jumped out at me too.

The decklids are the same.

Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:58 am

grats on the price.

Any recognition is always great!

Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:24 pm

Enkiel wrote: grats on the price.

Any recognition is always great!

Thanks

Sat Nov 19, 2016 10:36 am

Congratulations on the prize!

That's great Brett! Your hard work paying dividends. 😊

Sat Nov 19, 2016 3:28 pm

Outstanding Brett

Sat Nov 19, 2016 3:46 pm

sixtyonecrew wrote: Congratulations on the prize!

That's great Brett! Your hard work paying dividends. 😊

Thanks

Sat Nov 19, 2016 3:46 pm

zuggbug wrote: Outstanding Brett

Thanks Paul

Sat Nov 19, 2016 4:49 pm

brettsvw wrote: emzee503 wrote: can you still get the 3rd brake light decklid from gerson? only saw single cab ones on the kfab site

I'm not sure if KlassicFab making them at this time.

Hasn't made these or pressed bumpers in almost a year, word from his suppliers is he's backlogged trying to catch up on other, easier, higher selling parts :roll:

I recently bought the last few last in north america at least that was what I was told/ran into when searching for them :shock:

Ken @ concept1 had a few '58 lids when i got mine the only different in them is having to cut the brakelight hole in them but with the price an original lid it's not that big of deal for most :wink:

Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:23 pm

brettsvw wrote: cru62 wrote: What profile tumbler are you looking for? Your ad link is down.

Here is a pic of my key.

I was able purchase a badly pitted locking door handle here in the classifieds.

Here are the parts

Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:48 pm

Cool, soak it in cleaner and swap the wafers over and lube it up

Thu Dec 22, 2016 3:52 am

EverettB wrote: Who.Me? wrote: emzee503 wrote: can you still get the 3rd brake light decklid from gerson? only saw single cab ones on the kfab site

Don't think there's anything different about a single cab decklid? Just about everything else from the front doors back is different apart from the frame components, but I'm pretty sure the decklid is the same?

That jumped out at me too.

The decklids are the same.
Well, they are not the same on a barn door. Maybe the person that wrote the catalog listing did not make the difference when making the jump to post barn door.
This writing accurate parts book descriptions takes a very knowledgeable person as well. But I would rather have accurate parts than accurate descriptions if I could only have one.
Al

Thu Dec 29, 2016 9:22 am

brettsvw wrote: Replaced heater cable tubes, This was interesting trying to feed these thru.

Remnants of old heater cable housing.

I'm just starting to replace my heater cable tubes. Lots of fun to cut out the welds. Do you know how they are attached in the housing? I'm hoping not to have to cut it out and into pieces.

Fri Dec 30, 2016 12:37 pm

Djholland, Looks like braze welded with brass?

I replaced with another complete set from another bus without cutting or separating

Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:43 pm

Hey, nice Bus and great thread! I need to do similar metal work on my 57 Kombi. I like seeing the close ups of how the metal all fits together. Any pics or steps of your safari install and who you bought them from?

Keep up the good work!

Fri Mar 17, 2017 7:33 am

Dubskii wrote: Hey, nice Bus and great thread! I need to do similar metal work on my 57 Kombi. I like seeing the close ups of how the metal all fits together. Any pics or steps of your safari install and who you bought them from?

Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the complements.

Unfortunately I didn't take pics of safari install.

I purchased the safaris from eis. There is very long thread in the splitbus forums I used before buying installing.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=114431

Fri Apr 28, 2017 5:18 pm

Wife didn't like the CLK wheels, Decided on 17X7 Fuchs replicas.

205-40-17 fronts

215-45-17 rears