My 63 body on a 59 pan Herbie project car

[slave1pilot]

bought a pressure washer powered sand blaster to get to hard to reach areas
It was like $35US on Amazon

I used it to hit the area under the fuel tank

It made it look like this

Not perfect t but much better
I also hit in between all the rear vents (That’s why I bought it )
I dont have any good pics of it before
Just this one

Here’s he after

Unfortunately , the sand is now waterborne
So my car has a nice patina now

Time to get the DA sander back out
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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[67rustavenger]

[slave1pilot]

I dont Mind sanding the body again
I wanted To get the paint and rust from in the areas I showed
I was Considering OSPHO on the areas with surface rust that I cant get to
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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[Busstom]

[slave1pilot]

OSPHO ordered
Be here by my next days off
I hope
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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[67rustavenger]

[slave1pilot]

We actually have a Home Depot here in town
It doesn’t carry OSPHO
We are a smaller community and we don’t have a gigantic Depot, so we can’t get everything locally
It’s fair trade off for lower crime and quiet living , so I’ll take it lol
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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[slave1pilot]

I used the Ospho in the hard to reach areas
It worked really well
I didnt take pics, sorry
But I did take the DA sander to the the surface rust I created when I sand blasted

I’m getting really close to priming the body
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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[slave1pilot]

Ol’ Herb emerged from hibernation today

I pushed everything could out of the garage so I could clean up a little
That gave me a little room to work , even if it’s all shoved out to the walls

I took a look at the engine sitting in the sun

I was sick of it being on the stand and decided to take it off
Mrs.slave1pilot wasn’t as enthusiastic as I was to pull it off the stand and on to the Jack

But it was no problem

Since it’s off, I decided it was time to mate it to the trans

Probably be harder to work on it that low to the ground but it’s progress

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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[Busstom]

Those almost look like old-school copper exhaust nuts holding the case halves together.
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[Dusty1]

That's what we call an "open motor". I see numerous openings for critters and debris to get inside. I could tell the story of Zeke the Freak's Gene Berg motor eating itself alive on break- in. An 8mm nut down the intake will do that. Then there was the one I built that squealed like there was a tiny fiddler inside. Turns out my brother stuck a 3/8" bolt in a vice, hacked it off and couldn't find the cutoff. He couldn't find the cutoff because it went down the intake of my motor in the other bay. Fortunately that debris couldn't get past the valve stem. It made an unusual squeak when the motor was running.

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[slave1pilot]

It’s possible those are exhaust nuts, they are the same thread and pitch

The engine is covered all of the time
I only take the cover off to work on it or do pics
I understand your concern though
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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[Kafer_Mike]

[slave1pilot]

Good ideas everyone.

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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[slave1pilot]

Stripping the under hood area the past couple of days
So much work to get it down to bare metal

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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[slave1pilot]

took a little break to freshen up the sandrail to sell it off
I repainted it, added new seat covers, and replaced the shift knob
Before

And after

You can see the new shift knob here (I added a new steering wheel too)

And the seat covers

I also forgot new plug wires

I’m pretty happy with it
I’m only selling because I didn’t take it out last summer, and only once the summer before
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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[sportin-wood]

Nice looking sandrail! When I lived in California, my parents had a cabin near California City (actually a town called Cantil, near a spot called Jawbone Canyon which was very popular for off-roaders), not far from Tehachapi. Damn I miss those days...
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Paused 66 project bug
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"Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman. He's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it." --- Jeff Spicoli

[slave1pilot]

That’s exactly where I used to take it.
We would go to Jawbone and the surrounding areas
There’s lots of trails out there.
Small world
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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[slave1pilot]

Sold the sandrail last week to one of my employees for $3500
He’s very happy with it
I finally got moving on Ol’ Herb again
New tires mounted to the 15x6 wheels

I went with 205/60R15 all the way around

Let me know what you guys think
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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[slave1pilot]

And getting closer

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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle