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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
Joined: January 08, 2011 Posts: 3104 Location: Tulsa, OK
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 10:03 am Post subject: Re: 1978 Champagne first bus |
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Stuartzickefoose wrote: |
Chisel carefully into one side of the switches hold in screw in the losses direction. Creates a new slot plus loosens it. |
Wow, I'm sorry Stuart, but I'm having trouble putting your string of words into a coherent statement _________________ -Tony
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Tcash Samba Member
Joined: July 20, 2011 Posts: 12844 Location: San Jose, California, USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 10:12 am Post subject: Re: 1978 Champagne first bus |
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How tight should the wiper arms be on the body? |
Just tight enough to squash the seal slightly. You do not want to over tighten them and squeeze the seal out.
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I've been having trouble getting the headlight switch out. |
Try soaking it for a few day with rust penetrant.
A small hole saw will cut the nut off.
Good luck
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
Joined: January 08, 2011 Posts: 3104 Location: Tulsa, OK
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
Joined: January 08, 2011 Posts: 3104 Location: Tulsa, OK
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:09 am Post subject: Re: 1978 Champagne first bus |
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I reassembled the dash last night.
I also started pulling the headliner out. With the ever-so-slight windshield leak saturating the unfurled corners where the visors mount, the rust and white colored powdery drip marks all over my dash just weren't happening anymore. F that in the A. I don't care if it looks like shit for a while. I'll probably put some sound deadener down and do a tin top westy style ceiling later on.
I'm beginning to think that maybe I shouldn't have reassembled it completely...if something doesn't work it's gonna mostly have to come back apart.
Confession: I took a dremel to the escutcheon I buggered on the headlight switch. I fucked up. I sliced my dash That bastard had to die, though. It wouldn't come off with penetrating oil, the tool specially made for it wouldn't work, hammering the son of a bitch wouldn't work, it wouldn't twist or turn to loosen. So I went commando and I paid for it. Yesterday was a particularly bad day of working on the bus. Hopefully today is better.
What's coming tonight (other than your mom):
"If it doesn't rain today, maybe I can take the interior out to remove the headliner."
"Where THE F*CK are the windshield wiper nuts I acquired?" _________________ -Tony
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vwwestyman Samba Member
Joined: April 24, 2004 Posts: 5688 Location: Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
Joined: January 08, 2011 Posts: 3104 Location: Tulsa, OK
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
Joined: January 08, 2011 Posts: 3104 Location: Tulsa, OK
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 4:50 pm Post subject: SecretSubby's Super Secret Fuel Doors! |
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Now that I guess I'm done with wiring up front (for now) [until something ELSE pops up and doesn't work anymore], it's time to finally peek behind my firewall.
I want 0 gas vapors in the bus. F that in the A.
From page 5:
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I'll let you draw your own conclusions from these
There are metal straps that are bolted to the body, and bolted somewhere behind the tank. But they've been cut/broken.
and again
it's like that on both straps |
Well, the B.S. straps are still donezo. I shoulda had Stu use his neanderthal-ish strength to help me loosen those bolts, he's gotta a thicker skin than I do So I PB'laster'd them and I'm gonna see how they're doing this weekend. Here's the tank today:
Right-o!
I popped off my pie plate ECU cover thing for the very. first. time. ever. and found that some bozo scrawled something on my ECU at some point! Never in my bus'ses's'es history have I ever had any real clues about its past or anything, save for a library card I found in the glove box. I don't know how to remove the ECU, so I left it for now, will attempt to remove along with the tank, at least to get a picture of it.
Also, many of you have seen your Previous Owner's cut handy and grotesque fuel sender access doors. But how many of you have been graciously gifted with FUEL FILLER NECK DOORS?!
SWEET!^^ It does not really help AT ALL!
Here's the condition of my filler neck on the outside.
Upon taking a closer look, someone has repaired this, maybe more than once, with RTV. It will have to go.
And, I though this was funny, I went to remove the battery ground, and wound up with a perfectly misaligned bolt (plus bonus dremel battle scar!)
This was only a prep-day, lots of spiders, and dog pee on the tires is starting to stink in the humid Oklahoma summer.
It's like Bala says, try to do something every day to stay motivated _________________ -Tony
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Stuartzickefoose Samba Post Whore
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 10:37 am Post subject: Re: 1978 Champagne first bus |
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The ECU is two 10mm screws top and bottom where the plug is and then yank hard, as its clipped in snugly. Tipping it top or bottom gets it out of the clip sometimes too. _________________ Stuart Zickefoose
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
Joined: January 08, 2011 Posts: 3104 Location: Tulsa, OK
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:01 am Post subject: Re: 1978 Champagne first bus |
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Stu came by, 2400+ miles on Maisy. Holy cow
Buses + murals = The Buccaneer, Tulsa's oldest bar.
So good to see an old friend! _________________ -Tony
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
Joined: January 08, 2011 Posts: 3104 Location: Tulsa, OK
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Xevin Samba Member
Joined: January 08, 2014 Posts: 7624
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 6:24 am Post subject: Re: 1978 Champagne first bus |
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Welcome to The Samba _________________ Keep on Busin'
67rustavenger wrote: |
GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo! |
Clatter wrote: |
Damn that Xevin... |
skills@eurocarsplus wrote: |
I respect Xevin and he's a turd |
SGKent wrote: |
My God! Xevin and I 100% agree |
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
Joined: January 08, 2011 Posts: 3104 Location: Tulsa, OK
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riverside66 Samba Member
Joined: June 04, 2008 Posts: 218 Location: Sparta, NC
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 8:30 am Post subject: Re: 1978 Champagne first bus |
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Seriously one of my favorite build threads. Awesome work man, keep it up! It's truly inspiring (and helpful too)! _________________ 1977 Standard Beetle -Sold-
1979 Transporter - "Wheatbread" -Sold- |
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
Joined: January 08, 2011 Posts: 3104 Location: Tulsa, OK
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 8:37 am Post subject: Re: 1978 Champagne first bus |
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riverside66 wrote: |
Seriously one of my favorite build threads. Awesome work man, keep it up! It's truly inspiring (and helpful too)! |
Oh thanks bud! I kinda started to feel like a homeless person muttering to myself, so I decided to be less of a talker, more of a do-er.
1. I moved. Took a while to get settled.
2. Stuart AND Robbie (of Bay Forum fame) visited me this year [at different times]
3. My engine rebuild is probably halfway done.
4. Preparation for roof insulation, followed by some slightly custom wiring is happening now.
Test fitting my Reflectix fit
Can't put it all the way back together until I'm done
Rust conversion still holding up very nicely.
Small pinhole in front floor board:
General Pornography:
More engine shit today after work. Got my greasy Tom Wilson book ready. _________________ -Tony
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airschooled Air-Schooled
Joined: April 04, 2012 Posts: 12721 Location: on a bike ride somewhere
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 8:40 am Post subject: Re: 1978 Champagne first bus |
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"General Pornography."
New band name.
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Engine pics. Needed.
Robbie. _________________ Learn how your vintage VW works. And why it doesn't!
One-on-one tech help for your Volkswagen:
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 11:23 am Post subject: Re: 1978 Champagne first bus |
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Following Wilson, I checked, cleaned, and lubed my oil pump, and installed it. I also properly torqued the case fasteners all the way around, and installed piston rings on the all pistons. Lost my piston ring compression tool in a move somewhere, so I stopped there for the day. The only pics from that day:
_________________ -Tony
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Kirk Samba Member
Joined: December 05, 2003 Posts: 5487 Location: North Texas
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: 1978 Champagne first bus |
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Tony still kicking ass with the hoss kicked bus. Glad to see progress. _________________ MAKE FORUMS GREAT AGAIN
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 7:42 am Post subject: More on endplay |
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The pistons are in the cylinders. Before putting them on, we tried to set the endplay. Installed the shims I removed when we busted it apart, I got the flywheel locking tool on, torqued the bolts to 80 ft. lbs. The dial indicator showed our motion from 0 to about 12 thousandths if we pried the flywheel away from the case. Then it would spring back to about 3...not staying where we budged it to, and not returning to zero either.
Reading the red Wilson book, I knew I needed a different assortment of shims. Fortunately, my friend Adam recently picked up a huge stack of them during a wild VW parts uncovering in Kansas a while back. UNFORTUNATELY, NONE were small enough to give me endplay within spec.
So, we called it a day and scheduled an appointment with Mike, a semi-retired professional ACVW mechanic who served our area for about 30 years at reputable shops. Good friend of my friend. (Connections, people)
His garage is AIR CONDITIONED. So that was nice. After mic'ing a bunch of type 4 shims, practically every single one, we realized that none of us had any shims that would be the right size.
This led me down the rabbit hole, something I refer to as a
TYPE 4 UNOBTAINIUM RUN
Where one has to run around trying to find those weird little type 4 parts.
Not a coincidence that the 4 on a keyboard is also the $ key.
A phone call to RennSport Tulsa led me to the right shims (hopefully). It'll be 5 days and they're a whopping $12 each. So that's neat.
Once this is addressed and my endplay is within spec, its just installing P+C's, heads, then we're really gonna be soaring.
Soon, my long-lost tribe of weirdos. Soon. _________________ -Tony
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