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Glenn 
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Removed the carbs to have them rebuilt after 12 years.
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74 Beetle Specs | 74 Beetle Restoration | 2180cc Engine
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DurocShark
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Joined: April 05, 2004
Posts: 6624
Location: Crappy town in a crappy state. But the beach is nearby, so I have that going for me.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Purdy Glenn! I'd be happy if ANYTHING looked that good after 12 years of my "care"... 
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73SlowBug
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Joined: November 28, 2017
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Location: PENNSYLVANIA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:42 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| 73SlowBug wrote: |
| Went on a nice roadtrip with wife and daughter to Junebug at Mohnton PA. The motor feels good! Pulls strong! There were plenty of friendly vendors at the show. Got some new door seals and a new antenna. Door seals installed. Adjusted clutch when I got home. I had no freeplay at all, and clutch was not fully engaging. Slipping at high load in 4th gear. I'm hoping that was all I needed, and not a new clutch. |
Eh! If you couldn't smell the clutch. You'll likely be ok.
But, yea. They need a bit of adjusting. Once in a while.
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Nope, couldn't smell the clutch. I hope you're right.
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Matt Brutosky
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Joined: January 03, 2010
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Location: Lompoc, CA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2018 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| Finally got the factory rear defrost window back in after having to replace the rear package tray/firewall. And got the redwood headliner in (still needs to have screw holes filled, sanded and oiled) because I am horrible at installing bow hung headliners. |
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Volcrew
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Joined: March 23, 2014
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Location: South Texas
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:14 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Keep an open mind continue to learn. 
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Good advice. I tell engineering students that the diploma is just an indication that the school thinks you have the ability to learn. You have to then continue as a life-long learner.
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ctknecht
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Joined: March 14, 2018
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Location: San Antonio, TX
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:13 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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CTK, the only thing that's ever worked for me to get a solid pedal with a single push is to
1.)tighten both adjusters on all 4 tires so that you can't turn the tires by hand; 2.)pump the brakes a couple of times between tightening of each wheel's adjusters.
3.) Bleed each wheel using the one person pump while you bleed method; follow the order of the Bentley manual for your model car;
4.) back of the adjusters a click at a time per wheel until the wheel drags but you can turn it w/out getting a hernia.
This worked for me on my two Supers over the last couple of months. I have great brakes now, no double-pumping needed. |
vamram, thanks for the tip responding to my need to pump the brakes to stop even after adjusting a bleeding. We finally got around to doing this and the brakes work so much better now (for drum brakes that is). Sadly, this was the first thing we attempted to do when we bought the car in March so it was reasonably safe. Ultimately, we rebuilt all 4 of them completely and learned a lot along the way.
In the process of this last adjustment/bleeding, we had to replace the brake light switches. Right after we finished adjusting and bleeding, my son took it out for a drive and I noticed the brake lights not working...he was so disappointed we had to park it again until repaired.
All good now. Brake lights work and even the brake warning light is working properly now. I replaced both switches with the 3 pronged switches. The PO had improperly wired the 2 prong versions, which is possible, but has to be done a certain way. Along with improper wiring, he was only using 1 switch for the brake warning sensor (concept works off differential of the 2 sensors so it never would have worked his way) and the other switch for the brake lights (rather than running them in parallel and having redundancy for the lights).
Next we need to work on the oil leak (we think is coming from the oil cooler seals), the interior (floors and dash panel/gauges), and then the suspension (everyone keeps telling us our bug looks great lowered, LOL ).
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nachche
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 12:50 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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It's a lift table. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XNZ5GV6/
Not normally useful for VW engines because it doesn't go down low enough, but the baja has so much clearance already, it worked pretty well. I borrowed it from work. Sadly they didn't have an ATV jack which I would have preferred. |
thanks!! i see what you mean about the height problem.. |
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vdubguru
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I bought my first aircooled vw. Have had many watercooled VW's and a couple Audis but, this is the first of the aircooled persuasion.
techincally it wasn't today but a week ago... semantics
1968 with a 1600 motor (not original). From the looks of things its been restored once before. pretty clean of rust. There are a few spots here and there but its a good runner.
plans are to get it sitting low with smoothies and white walls, a roof rack and some other little mods. Would like to swap to the blade style bumpers down the road. We'll see what happens!
Cheers! |
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vamram
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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It's a beauty as it is. Leave it like that! Just saying....
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wcfvw69
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:58 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| vamram wrote: |
| It's a beauty as it is. Leave it like that! Just saying.... |
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Looks perfect the way it is.
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DurocShark
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Joined: April 05, 2004
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Location: Crappy town in a crappy state. But the beach is nearby, so I have that going for me.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Replaced the alternator in the 68 Baja.
Why is that such a PITA? You'd think VW would have come up with SOMETHING better in the many decades this engine has been around...
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DurocShark
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| wcfvw69 wrote: |
| vamram wrote: |
| It's a beauty as it is. Leave it like that! Just saying.... |
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Looks perfect the way it is. |
I'd swap you for my 68 Baja with a brand new 1835 engine TODAY. 
Seriously, if you want to modify one, find one that needs some love anyway. That one is too beautiful as-is to mess with.
Of course, it's your car. Don't let us old farts tell you what to do. 
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J@ngo
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 6:51 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Installed Headlights and fenders
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Cusser
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Drove my 1970 next door and attached a dragging thingee to drag Mrs. Cusser's horse arena. She then dragged the arena with thqt and then with her own drag harrow using the VW.
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Emspilot55
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| vdubguru wrote: |
I bought my first aircooled vw. Have had many watercooled VW's and a couple Audis but, this is the first of the aircooled persuasion.
techincally it wasn't today but a week ago... semantics
1968 with a 1600 motor (not original). From the looks of things its been restored once before. pretty clean of rust. There are a few spots here and there but its a good runner.
plans are to get it sitting low with smoothies and white walls, a roof rack and some other little mods. Would like to swap to the blade style bumpers down the road. We'll see what happens!
Cheers! |
Beautiful!! |
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seiyaTokyo
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:23 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Drove it and shot a movie of my 1974 VW1200
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Volcrew
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Drove it and shot a movie of my 1974 VW1200
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Kobayashi san: Thanks for posting. Your posts remind me of my fond memories in Japan.
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Ricksurfin
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| Had a bad front end shake between 40-45mph. Replace tie rod ends and all is good now. |
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VW_Jimbo
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:25 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| Ricksurfin wrote: |
| Had a bad front end shake between 40-45mph. Replace tie rod ends and all is good now. |
Did you set toe after the exchange? Hoping so. The car can get a little squirrely if it is off by much.
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| GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo! |
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Ricksurfin
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 5:23 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Yes, set to 1/8”. Seems to drive good, but may take for an alignment.
Edit: Drove to work today, and have a slight drift to the left when I take my hands off the steering wheel. Need to check tire pressures, and also confirm that I have the correct amount of toe in. |
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