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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:06 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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wcfvw69 wrote: |
Remember people, the glass isn't have empty it's half full! |
Glass half empty, glass half full, either way, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be
I ordered an ignition switch from fellow Samba member VWtech & it showed up the other day THANKS Bob!
Then I unbolted the column & rotated it so I could install the switch, all the fasteners were missing so I'll have to source those. I was curious about the steering lock so I removed the lock mechanism.
Unfortunately the lock pin has been removed, I'll have to find one later.
But now the key will work in the ignition & should once I remove this & sort out this rat's nest.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
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Tcash Samba Member
Joined: July 20, 2011 Posts: 12844 Location: San Jose, California, USA
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sdmanzor Samba Member
Joined: June 20, 2017 Posts: 3
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 10:26 am Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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Hi, I´m in the same mission of a old ´72 resurrection. This is very inspiring!
Although, I've been looking desperately for a new or old front beam. Do you have any tip about where to look for this part? I will appreciate it a lot!!! |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 11:13 am Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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Welcome to The Samba!
Try doing a search in the bay bus classified section.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/search.php...words=Beam
It would also help to know where you're at. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 3:09 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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Todays task was to reassemble the steering lock housing, I got the lock housing back together, & used some heat shrink on the harness to clean it up as much as possible.
In the process of trying to install the lock mechanism & housing I discovered that the housing is the incorrect part.
It's designed to sit higher causing the column tube to sit lower & cause the steering wheel to not sit where it needs to.
Oh well, the hunt is on, I might just modify & shim it up until I can find the proper one for a reasonable price.
So I then decided to try to re-key the door handles, so I removed the drivers side.
After lubricating it & futzing with it, I discovered that the new key actually matches the handles. YAY!
So then I cleaned the nasty repaint from around the door handle & reinstalled the handle & lubed up the lock mechanism.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 3:57 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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Todays Crusty Pig progress.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 3:57 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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Crusty Pig update
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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orwell84 Samba Member
Joined: May 14, 2007 Posts: 2539 Location: Plattsburgh, New York
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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What are your plans for paint once you get it all cleaned up? |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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orwell84 wrote: |
What are your plans for paint once you get it all cleaned up? |
I'm not quite sure yet, the original paint isn't quite nice enough to try to drive as is while doing the body repairs (too wet & humid to let it go bare metal.) so touch up will be needed at the very least.
This Crispy Pig kept me from doing anything with the Crusty Pig.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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rogerd20 Samba Member
Joined: June 24, 2017 Posts: 10 Location: Jonesboro
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 5:53 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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the pig and the bus both look good lol |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 9:39 am Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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rogerd20 wrote: |
the pig and the bus both look good lol |
Thank you sir. And welcome to The Samba! Yes, the Crispy Pig was great, the Crusty Pig however...
I received my window seals & some other parts that I needed to get the Crusty Pig back together.
So I pulled the old gaskets out to prep the openings for the windows that I picked up from someone that was parting a Bus on Clist. The passenger side was apparently broken out with a baseball bat or the like which slightly bent the opening.
So I removed the sliding door track cover & started to clean the channel & it looks like I'll be doing some rust repair before installing the glass.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 1:40 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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I REALLLY didn't want to do this but...
I started by straightening the window opening, first with a pair of pliers.
Then with a modified pair of Vice-Grips.
Much better.
Then it was time to start addressing the rust. First I drilled out the spot welds on the slider cover mounting flange.
Then I gently worked the flange back & forth to get to release from the body.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.
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Pinetops Samba Member
Joined: March 24, 2007 Posts: 2987
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 1:45 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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Gotta do what you gotta do. Great work on this bus so far, thanks for the updates! _________________ "A rolling bus gathers no rust." |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:18 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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Pinetops wrote: |
Gotta do what you gotta do. Great work on this bus so far, thanks for the updates! |
Thanks! I'm glad it's been interesting enough for people to follow.
Here's where I started cutting out the rotted window frame.
And then separating the pre-drilled spot welds.
Here it is with the rot removed.
Then forming & fitting the replacement metal.
And with a few tack welds.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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The weather didn't cooperate to do anything with the body so I just cleaned, blasted, & painted the sled tins.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 7:51 am Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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I spent a few more hours scraping, cleaning, & blasting the left heat exchanger.
Then painted it.
Then installed the sled tins & heat exchanger.
_________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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I was just about to toss the engine back into the Crusty Pig but then I kept thinking about the fact that the fuel sender unit wouldn't be accessible once it was back in so I pulled it back out & followed this process...
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=629435
With one slight deviation to keep from melting the plastic insulator.
Since the hardware store is already closed, it might be tomorrow (if they're open.) or the next before I can get the tank & engine back in. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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airschooled Air-Schooled
Joined: April 04, 2012 Posts: 12728 Location: on a bike ride somewhere
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 9:03 am Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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Nice to see these updates! Any reason for going black instead of grey on the heat exchangers?
Robbie _________________ Learn how your vintage VW works. And why it doesn't!
One-on-one tech help for your Volkswagen:
www.airschooled.com |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 10:15 am Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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asiab3 wrote: |
Nice to see these updates! Any reason for going black instead of grey on the heat exchangers?
Robbie |
Thank you sir!
After removing all the crud & grime, what paint was still there was black with no hint of anything under that (You can still see some of it in a couple spots.).
I thought about trying to go through archived pictures of what the engines looked like as they came off the assembly line but couldn't find anything definitive. Yes, I know that all of the replacements were grey but mine were black so that's what they went back to. It's not like this thing will ever be concourse quality. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 1:09 pm Post subject: Re: 1968 Deluxe resurrection |
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I finally got to find a screw & nut at the local hardware store (they went on vacation through the 6th) I used a 4mm x 6mm pan head screw (since I have metric taps).
So I reassembled the sender unit, tested it (it works now!!!), installed it in the tank, & put the tank back in.
I also installed a new in tank filter.
Tomorrow, I'll try to get the engine back in! _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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