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swervyjoe Samba Member
Joined: February 07, 2004 Posts: 968 Location: denver, co
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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Got back from picking it up from Lakeland, FL. Nick and I left DC Wednesday night and pulled into Denver yesterday morning. Thanks, Nick! |
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splitpile Samba's Worst Speller
Joined: May 03, 2000 Posts: 5927 Location: back to living where hell meets the suface
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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Test fit front floor
Went in pretty easy, a couple little tweeks and it will get welding in. Getting close. _________________ Stocking distributor of "The Funky Green Panels"
www.BUSTORATION.com metal and more for your bus
"no more hacking my sig line" |
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spiderjames Samba Member
Joined: October 30, 2004 Posts: 358
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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New wheel cylinder, flex hoses and metal lines in the rear. Now all four wheels stop at the same time. _________________ "A cranky transporter's a mighty finicky piece of machinery to be gambling your life on, Sir" |
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onebadoval56 Samba Member
Joined: August 20, 2004 Posts: 261 Location: wv
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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finally got done stripping the paint
what do you guyss think?
_________________ 1955 oval
1956 oval
1960 euro bug
1962 15 window delux
1963 double cab |
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BlastMasterMannyFresh Samba Member
Joined: November 21, 2001 Posts: 6102 Location: #31peach
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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replaced the broken generator pulley
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dieselnut Samba Member
Joined: March 07, 2002 Posts: 1510 Location: Lurking...
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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Polished the turd...
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Slowlow Samba Member
Joined: March 17, 2004 Posts: 4121 Location: Northeast Tennessee
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Took mine to a show over the weekend. Swapped parts with it, Slept in it. Spent some time under it adding gear oil, but still crapped out a tranny on the way home.
BUT I made it home, so the bus did me well, exceptionally well for how gnarly that tranny was growling! _________________ • Metal Fab & Quality Suspensions, Type I-II-III. Since 2004 • |
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ekimikem Samba Member
Joined: May 16, 2004 Posts: 438 Location: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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dieselnut wrote: |
Polished the turd...
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I'd be happy to wipe that turd off your hands. |
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ScottMcW Samba Member
Joined: July 31, 2003 Posts: 298 Location: San Diego / Los Angeles
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scvw Samba Member
Joined: September 02, 2006 Posts: 3544 Location: South Carolina
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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I've see that before the first time I tried backing my bus out of my driveway. _________________ 58 Coral Red ragtop(Diana's car)
57 PG/SG standard
63 Ruby Red SC
SOUTHERN INTEGRITY AIRCOOLERS
WTB - Sigla popout glass like in my ad.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1667775 |
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fizzbang Samba Member
Joined: September 07, 2003 Posts: 196 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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- New brakes
- couple brake lines,
- cleaned 20 years of barn dust off
- new 6v battery
- drained 6 gallons of turpentine from the gas tank (thanks for the help Jadd...)
- flushed gas system
- Random parts to get the motor to run
- Drove it!!!!
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blackdog1999 Samba Member
Joined: October 17, 2004 Posts: 1203 Location: Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice singlecab.
I finished up my 65 DD Panel today. Changed the forward cargo door on the driver's side from a blue/white window door to an OG paint Velvet Green panel door with a EZ camper window cut in.
_________________ Home of the one true split Bus Motorhome |
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crofty Judas of the North
Joined: August 09, 2000 Posts: 19672 Location: Land of Whine and Phonies
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:46 am Post subject: |
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obus wrote: |
is that those hi miler ones? |
Yep. _________________ Your Vanagon sucks, Stop waving at me.
HamburgerBrad wrote: |
I slept on crofty's tent once. I passed out drunk from two bottles of Everett's brother's wine. |
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Major Woody Samba Enigma
Joined: December 04, 2002 Posts: 9010 Location: Portland, OR
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:58 am Post subject: |
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Pulled the beam out of the 67 and spent one solid day scraping/picking 42 years of petrified grease and goo off of it prior to tossing it in the back of the truck for a trip to the local self-serve carwash. Wife and two little daughters suited up and helped to pick and scrape. Tossed nine pounds of krud into the trash when all was said and done. My back is sore.
Center pin, original to the bus, is still completely without discernable play, and super smooth. Amazing. Scratch that off the list of things to do.
Brake cylinders, marked Varga, were 50% ok. One left and one right were seized, and pistons could not be dislodged with either 120 psi compressed air or a C-clamp, or both. Others were ok after a hone, as they had not been leaking. I will reuse the cups. Could not get the left side hard line out of the cylinder, even after using heat and a vise, but that cylinder was wasted anyway. Hope to be painting and reassembling with rebuilt Rizzag spindles by next weekend.
I'll be spending some QT with the wire brush on the buffer this evening, cleaning up all the hardware as well as the two rusty wheel cylinders that I am going to reuse.
edit to fix typo
Getting closer!
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crukab Samba Chef
Joined: December 13, 2002 Posts: 6116 Location: Vermont
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:27 am Post subject: |
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Got a '56 Dove Blue type 2 running, been off the road snce '99 or so, ran great, brakes clutch ect. Drove it around the property, what a trip. _________________ Tom
My Pops:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=604100&highlight=
I know you will always be with me, rest in peace with no more pain. 8/13/14.....
In the yard right now:
'51 Dodge 5 window truck
'65 Bug
'66 Singlecab
'82 Rabbit Truck Diesel from CALI
'86 Doublecab W/T
'91 Vanagon carat/wolfsbrg.Tiico
'88 Dodge Ram pickup
'11 Jetta Wagon |
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crusty67t2 Trailer Park King
Joined: January 11, 2005 Posts: 607 Location: flori-duh!!!
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:36 am Post subject: |
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swervyjoe wrote: |
Got back from picking it up from Lakeland, FL. Nick and I left DC Wednesday night and pulled into Denver yesterday morning. Thanks, Nick! |
glad to see it didn't get cut up!! _________________ 62 original paint Turkis double cab
59' rag top |
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thom Samba Member
Joined: October 12, 2000 Posts: 5943 Location: Sacramento
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Installed an exhaust tip and splash pans on the '56 single cab
_________________ -Thom
1956 Single Cab
1957 Porsche 356A Sunroof
1957 23-Window Deluxe
1957 Mercedes Westfalia single cab
1963 Unimog 404
1965 E-Type |
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thom Samba Member
Joined: October 12, 2000 Posts: 5943 Location: Sacramento
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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I've been fighting with the nose pieces still. Trim, fit, cuss; lather, rinse repeat. I think I'm going to have to make major mods to the V skin piece - the lower flange isn't 90° to the face and the curvature is off, so I'll have to make a bunch of relief cuts and re-bend the flange. Although I haven't tried to fit it in place yet, it doesn't look like the V shape will match the nose, so that will need some massaging as well.
_________________ -Thom
1956 Single Cab
1957 Porsche 356A Sunroof
1957 23-Window Deluxe
1957 Mercedes Westfalia single cab
1963 Unimog 404
1965 E-Type |
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campingbox Samba Member
Joined: November 14, 2000 Posts: 10196 Location: Petaluma, CA
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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That metal brakepipe is installed wrong, although its hard to tell if it will foul anything. |
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hugheseum Samba Member
Joined: February 11, 2004 Posts: 2690 Location: oregon
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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that single cab is awesome! _________________ Have a great day! |
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