1970 Fastback "sympathetic restoration"

[akokarski]

Today I wanted to double check valves, fuel pressure, timing and dwell.

After adjusting valves and while rear wheels were off I figured let's try replace reverse switch. If it leak out while I reinstall, I would just suck it up, get through it and clean it up. Luckly the trick with jacking the heck of the front helped and I didn't loose a drop of gear oil. Hopefully this switch will not leak!

While adjusting valves I only had to adjust few here is where i found them

[akokarski]

Today I started on the carpet. First order of business is to remove everything like seat belts, seatbelt buckles, shifter and whatever else that will be on the way. Then vacuum and wipe clean the floor. Layout all the pieces in the sequence and see how everything fits and whether anything needs adjusting or compromises.

Checking each piece to make sure there is nothing weird.

Every thing needs to needs to meet with other pieces

I only had 5 pieces of the sound deadening, but that’s more than enough to be effective. I also don’t like to add too much weight and want padding to have something to stick to so uncovered borders should help with adhesion

Not a huge progress but sorting out the game plan is half the battle.

Cheers!
Anton

[Tram]

Did you make the carpets or buy a kit?
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[akokarski]

It’s a tmi kit

[akokarski]

Slowly continuing with carpet install...

cutout and glued in padding

Started cutting out vent holes and I knew they were off but not that much, I think vinyl is like 1/3rd off

What is the purpose of this plastic thing?

So I think I need to do something about this, I am thinking metal cover painted black like the plate over the heat control that is right above it

I am trying to replicate the windows but I think it maybe easier to just cut one big window

Cheers!
Anton

[Bobnotch]

[akokarski]

Thanks Bob, I thought it maybe some insert for vent covers or something, but that makes sense.


One vent cover is hammered out. I didn’t want to make it too big, but it’s not going to cover those vinyl borders completely. I think they will be below the floor section of the carpet

I used vent slider cover radius to round the corners so that these pieces match the covers

[akokarski]

I am on the final stretch of carpet install and started reinstalling seatbelts to make sure I don’t forget where the mounting holes are.

While at it I thought I would ask if anyone has any ideas why my seat belt catches are weird.

There is an offset in the loop that bolts to the tunnel. If flat is on the tunnel then button is toward the outside of the car, ie it’s under the belt. Every car that I can remember release button is toward the center of the car.

Here is the close up of the mount

I am assuming that the washer is supposed to be on top of the bolt hole not between the catch and tunnel.

This looks awkward

. These are not original installed before me.

[akokarski]

Today I have officially finished up the carpet. Took my sweet time cutting out holes and figuring out where to go glue or not to glue.

Kick board for passenger and behind pedal cluster got velcroed for serviceability. I double check the shift rod bushing, looked okay with small play, so left it along. I think I may have replaced it in the past and shifting with this csp shifter is pretty crisp. In the past I used stock knob as it sits higher than the ball that comes with CSP shifter. Then i switched to the wooden wolfsburg knob. It feels just right. Short shifts, but not so short that you can't quite hit the gear.

Before getting the seats back in I took out the rear and reinstalled back panel behind the arm rest with some metal rivets, these are like jean rivets.

Took it out for a drive and on man it is so much quieter. Way more civilized and comfortable.

After that we adjusted the visors, now they can swing down without tearing up the mounts.

Now I can focus on small details and tuning. Maybe I can figure out how to get the squeaks out of the rear swing arms.

Cheers!
Anton

[akokarski]

Today, I wrapped up the heater vent covers and the slider knobs. Those are NLA and I could not figure out how to take mine apart. So i just drilled the hole on the face to get the screw driver on the screw.

Then I went for a drive to Santa Cruz, what a blast! I think this is the most fun drive/trip I've had in who knows how long. I live in the Santa Cruz mountains so for me it's literally 30 minute drive through redwoods in the canyons and I don't even get on the freeway.

Here getting into the city.

First stop, museum on west cliff drive

This is what I love about this place, it can be foggy and sunny at the same time.
back to the warf

This is boardwalk in the background, pretty busy out there even for Thursday morning

The end of the wharf is getting some work done right now so this is the far end as of now

Then drove over to farwest fungi.

and back

I've must've talked to at least four of five people in a few hours of driving.

Now I can do the first break-in 100 mile oil change!

Cheers!
Anton

[Tram]

Car looks great!
If I recall the centers pop out of those knobs, then you access the screw.
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[akokarski]

For the life of me I was not able to pull the centers. I am under impression that once centers go in they don’t come out.


Today I did my 100 mile oil change and valve adjustments. Just had to touch a few as they were at 8 thou. Which is okay but I am writing them down. Oil looked normal no metal flakes just a few little pieces of k2. That’s I guess is not terrible as they get caught by the screen and if anything sneaks past it it will be in the filter. Which I still need to get a cutter for and open them up.


I did notice some odd oil drips on pushrod tubes and cylinder heads. Not quite sure where it’s coming from. I don’t think it was from assembly doesn’t feel like oil maybe it’s sealant. Or oil making its way past the headstud nuts.

Not the best shots, I am going to try to poke around with my crappy scope to see if I can find the source. Everything on the bottom is dry.

I’ll be in there in 1k for next oil change and valve adjustment so we’ll see if it’s getting thicker. This car is going to be a daily driver for a while…

Tomorrow or Sunday I am going to try swapping mps to an adjustable one and start messing with the mixture. I’ll be driving 20 miles one way to work so that will give me a good test track with mixed driving. Mountains, highway and city traffic.

Cheers!
Anton

[tmitoraj]

Looking great! Can you tell me more about the adjustable MPS? Thanks Tom
I have a 71 fastback that is inching closer to the finish line thanks to all the help from Samba.

[akokarski]

Thanks!


Adjustable mps is something that Jim Adney set up for me

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1807851

He adjusts them and if he doesn’t seal the plug you can adjust.

I think it’s a bit tall order to adjust mps as not every one has equipment to reset back…

Check tangerine racing as well they sell repair kit and tools for adjusting
Anton

[akokarski]

Since I wrecked my wife's car yesterday, today I got to use fastback to do a deck project at our school. Can't bring any lumber in it, but 2 trunks were useful to get all my tools over there.

There is a really cool mural on the community center

Once I got home I figured I would swap my MPS for adjustable one. I took some readings from adjustable and went to the store.

AFR values were pretty close to sealed if not the same.

I am still seeing low number on decel even dipping into 8! So when I get off the gas I am usually around 9 or 10. On a light acceleration it's around 11 but it's all over the place. I am also idling pretty low. The weird part is that AFR gauge seems to think these values are good and whenever I get into high 13s it's turning yellow.

I thought that I would give it small turn on the inner screw but the damn gauge/02 sensor took a dump again and is giving an E8 code. Not sure yet what I am going to do here.

On the other news it looks like i have developed a poping reverse. This was really annoying as I had to back up the hill 300 feet to let the propane delivery truck and poped out 3 times. I am hoping this is just an adjustment and not my new reverse switch. Replacement looked exactly the same....

I also need fix my turn signal switch, cancellation is broken again. Those tiny little plastic pieces around the spring are always falling apart.

Cheers!
Anton

[Dfasty]

I get those little things from the pick and pull yards out of early rabbits that some one else pulls the steering wheel off of.
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70 fastback automatic 06 invader

[akokarski]

Nice, I didn't realize early rabbits had somewhat similar switches!

Alright so I kind been driving, getting more miles and looking at the AFR. It still seems to be working so I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Today I took it to work, that's a healthy 6 miles in the mountains and then some on the freeway. It's pulls pretty darn well even though my afr is all around 10.

Light throttle cruising anywhere between 8.5 and < 12. full throttle not much different.

Came home and figured let me get a bit of turns on the middle screw, it did not affect AFR at idle, so I went a bit much to get it to 12. now when I am driving it is sweeping a lot more getting into 17s but it was a short drive just down the hill not even a 1/2 mile and back to the house. Hopefully I can take it out tomorrow and see how it behaves on more open road.

Also picked a new steering box, so that will need to go in. I am really not liking how it handles at speed on a straight away.


I am rereading some other MPS adjustment posts and pbanders, Looks like I goofed with with mixture adjustment. Inner screw does not affect idle afr, just part load and full load. Which means I need to go back to where I was and do a smaller adjustment to lean the mixture. See my cruise, part load and full load then go from there.

Cheers!
Anton

[Bobnotch]

[akokarski]

thanks Bob!

So my tire pressure was 20 all around, I tried 30 and seemed a bit more loose on the straight away. I am going back down to I don't know 25 maybe?

Bushings are a good topic, I've been mulling over doing all of the bushings as bump stops are shot and rear seems to have negative camber with torsion bars off center which indicates that spring plate bushings are tired. I don't see how beam bushings would be better off than the rest.

My hang up here is whether new rubbers are of decent quality and obviously the time to get them all replaced. Maybe I should move that up in the list....

Cheers!
Anton

[Tram]