72 Type 3 Square - Bring back to life

[Type3Todd]

Hi,

I recently purchased a 72 Type 3 and thought I'd start a thread on it here.

From what I know it's an abandoned father son project, and as such it's partially finished. Looks to be pretty rust free. It was an automatic and was converted to manual. Also converted to dual carb. Here are some photos from the add:

I'm new to VW, but I'm not new to vintage cars. I have a TR6 that is at a 75% complete restoration.

My goal for this car is to get it back on the road in the next couple of months and use it as a daily driver. Once the TR is done I'll probably do a comprehensive restoration of this car.

Things I need to get done:

Get brakes working.
Get motor running.
Replace all the rubber seals to prevent water from leaking in.
Freshen up the interior.

I'm going to try and get in touch with the previous owner to see if he has any of the original F.I. bits, as they didn't come with the car. My long term goal is to convert it back to fuel injection.

I should add that I am located in Richmond BC Canada.

I'm sure I'll have a lot of questions along the way.

[Type3Todd]

First questions

What type of wheels are these? How wide are they?

[Bobnotch]

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Early bumpers on the car. Keep the carbs you will be glad you did. check it over make it safe to drive.
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[tjmartin317]

That's an awesome color! And I know exactly what type of wheels those are... they're cool wheels.

As someone with a 72 that's still fuel injected, save yourself the trouble. I'm lucky my FI works, but I do have to adjust the fuel mixture with a potentiometer and a toothpick to get the thing to start.

This is in place of the head temp sensor that this car seemed to incinerate. It's a great system when it works... which isn't often.

Can't wait to see this one running! Jealous of it's condition in terms of rust!

[Max Welton]

A pot and a toothpick. I Love it!

Max
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[Scotty D]

Good looking car and hopefully a fun first VW project for you. Welcome to the club!

[calvinater]

Could those wheels be Marathons?
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[Type3Todd]

Thanks all for the warm welcome.

First on the list is brakes. When I got the car the e-brake wasn't working, due to the cats foot thingy not in the right position so I took it apart and cleaned it up.

The front calipers are looking a little worse for wear

I was trying to spread the pistons to insert new pads but they seemed to be frozen. They were removed and by some miracle the business end of my grease gun was a good fit:

The clamp is what I usually use to spread calipers, and it usually works, so I didn't want to damage them by using excessive force.

With a few pumps the pistons were freed:

I have ordered a couple rebuild kits for later T3 calipers so they will get cleaned up when they get here:

[Type3Todd]

Been a very busy weekend, I was helping my daughter move from university campus to a new apartment.

I got the brake rebuild kits the other day and I'm going to work on them on weekday evenings this week.

I did a little bit of work on the car on Friday evening, removing the carpet to see what I'm working with for the floor pans. I've found a couple of rust holes, but they are in a weird spot. They are below the heater channels.

The exterior on where the holes are is not rusty, so they must have fromed from the inside out. Any idea of how they would have formed? Maybe from water coming in from the window, and being retained in the carpet? Since this is not going to be a rebuild at this time, I'm going to clean uo the rust and weld in some patches.

Also there is a couple of rust spots in the frunk (or trunk?)

I've read that this is a common area for rust holes.

[Bobnotch]

Yup, all of it looks like standard equipment type 3 rust. The hardest one to fix will be the front trunk rust. When you make up a patch panel for it, make it so it's removable, that way you can clean out the leaves and dirt that fall thru the vent slots and CAUSE the rust.
The floor rust under the heater channel should be easy to fix, as you can cut up a bug repair panel to fix it. Also ISP offers some small type 3 patch panels for the floor, but since you're in Canada, you might just use bug parts from CIP, as they'll be cheaper to buy and ship (won't need to go thru customs).
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[Type3Todd]

[Type3Todd]

Update on the brakes, I got the front calipers rebuilt and installed. I didn't bother to repaint the calipers as I want to avoid "scope creep" so for now not doing any work on the aesthetics.

The rear brakes were refreshed by the previous owner so I'm not going to do anything with them:

I'm going to put cotter pins for the nut on the rear, but since I'm here I'm going to check/adjust the bearing end play first.

[Type3Todd]

On issue that has come up is that the accelerator pedal is rusted out at the bottom. When removing it the hinge part of the mount broke:

I was thinking of cutting off the damaged part and using a weld on bracket from an earlier car part number 111701535A. Can I use the standard pedal 111721507F with it?

I know I can get a new pedal assembly but I's a lot cheaper (and yes I'm cheap) to just get the bracket and a new pedal.

[Bobnotch]

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