1965 sunroof 1200 named Mushu

[tzepesh]

I repaired a bit a carburetor from a friend (bushed the throttle plate shaft, choke lever), and installed it. It responds to the tuning of both screws, mixture is ~4 turs out, air 1.5 turns in, steady idle at 900rpm. So I will have to get a better 34PICT 3 and rebuild for my own.
I received the metal tubes for sunroof cables and installed them. Sunroof works smooth, until I install the headliner part. That moves very hard all by itself, and makes the sunroof work very hard. Any ideas here: I checked the upholstery not to be overlapped, so to have thicker areas. I need to pull it off again. Also waiting for the metal reinforcement plate.
Yesterday we participated in an oldtimer cars event, "Photo finish". We drove around town and then parked in the city center in front of some musums, as it was also "night of the museums". We caught some rain, too. A few pics now, more will come.

Fid the bugs! Hint: we formed a semaphore. The yellow one is a good friends, who helped me a lot and for whom we worked the whole week up till late in the night to get running.

Flower stolen from the park

Then, many artsy pics:

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'74 1303S, L98B Viperngrun (extra glitter), German Look
'64 1200, Sea Blue, under restoration

[tzepesh]

Another issue I have is the shifter, especially first gear. I also installed a quick shifter, because my wife is not so tall. But I can not get it to shift well no matter how much I tried to adjust the plate position. I checked 3 times that the plate has the correct orientation. Also, it gets to reverse whithout pushing down. It was working better without quick shift, at least the reverse. I found this thread to explain the best.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4789422
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'74 1303S, L98B Viperngrun (extra glitter), German Look
'64 1200, Sea Blue, under restoration

[tzepesh]

I bought a 67 transmission only because I wanted the long drive shafts. The wheels look funny so deep under fenders. Now, to see when I can pick it up, because it is 400kms away. Anyway I will not change anything till end of the year, to give some time to my wife to have fun with the car. Already she was complaining it "yells at her" at higher speeds (read that 70km/h ). So hopefully it is a medium ratio gearbox, otherwise I will just buy a 3.88 R&P and swap it. I avoided for years to work on gearboxes, but I have enough parts to make the fork alignment jig out of another case, and to somehow make the pinion nut tool. I'm only afraid of the pinion and ring setting.
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'74 1303S, L98B Viperngrun (extra glitter), German Look
'64 1200, Sea Blue, under restoration

[tzepesh]

Yeah, well, remember the shifter issue? Look at this pics and tell me what is wrong...

I was just reviewing in my head how I assembled it, and why the reverse does not lock and it struck me. I was always looking at the plate orientation, and never at the position related to the spacer. Yes, it had to be under it. Changed places and yes, it shifts perfect now.
Today I took her out for a ride, to help another friend turn on his bus, 20km away. Drove at the incredible speed of 95km/h. Damn, this gearbox ia short! I need to get and prepare rhe other one with some proper gearing (read that 3.88 R&P).
And I need to address the accelerator cable, because it does not allow the throttle to close back completely.
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'74 1303S, L98B Viperngrun (extra glitter), German Look
'64 1200, Sea Blue, under restoration

[tzepesh]

600km round trip this weekend, to a meeting called BusStock and American Shine. Overall, a very nice event, family time, good weather. Many campervans, not only VW, more bugs than american cars . It was up on a montain, ~1400m altitude, with 100m altitude difference in ~20km, so pretty steep. It ran without any technical problems, but my wife drove pretty slow as she was getting used to the car (quite different experience to my 1303). Three issues: one whitewall came off and broke, so in the end I will remove all of them. The wheels do have a thin white bans, so it will compensate. Front wheels are rubbing the fender edges, the dropped spindles have some offset... I will try to pull a bit on the fenders. Last, we had very strong winds and my wife struggled to keep it straight at high speeds. At 60km/h it was ok, more than that and the wind would push her. Alignment was properly done before leaving.

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'74 1303S, L98B Viperngrun (extra glitter), German Look
'64 1200, Sea Blue, under restoration

[scarabee]

It's great that you and your wife are enjoying the air-cooleds together.

[tzepesh]

Yup, it is! Kids too.
This week we finally received the TMI seat covers, ordered since November. Man, do they make a difference!

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'74 1303S, L98B Viperngrun (extra glitter), German Look
'64 1200, Sea Blue, under restoration

[Bobs67vwagen]

Nice work, it's good to see you and family enjoying the car and traveling in it-good luck bob

[tzepesh]

Weekend work. I bough some more carpet and glued it to the rear seat back. Looks good.

I tried again to install the front sway bar. I made a 19mm drill and enlarged the holes in stock rubber bushings. Well, no success, the bushings become too thin and get pinched when trying to tighten the clamps. I tried again with the provided urethan bushings. Again, no go, they are too hard and can not get the clamp so close to install the retaining clip. I think the clamps with screw would work, but they were not provided in the sway bar kit... Now waiting for a set. Also, the sway bar touches the lower arm, maybe I did not get it in the right position or is it something else?

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'74 1303S, L98B Viperngrun (extra glitter), German Look
'64 1200, Sea Blue, under restoration