Byron's '63 Camper

[Eric&Barb]

[Gwdghiaguy]

[Culito]

I done told ya's a few posts back to try the citrus strip, or hell, try the multi-strip "western auto" suggested. Aircraft stripper don't mess around.
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[Gwdghiaguy]

[Eric&Barb]

Does not need to be cleaned up. First time you shift and use the clutch the disc will sand off most of the rust off the PP.

At most would use the corner edge of a sharp larger drill to scratch by hand the PP and FW surfaces in a "W" pattern across on each, so they are not so perfectly smooth. If you get a slight amount of oil on those two parts surfaces the clutch disc can suction cup to one or the other and you will not be able to shift till it pops apart.

You will need either one of the inexpensive plastic pilot tools (shown on far right) or a chunk of an old input shaft so as to align clutch disc to the needle bearings in the FW and the center of the PP. Without alignment you can not get the engine back in.

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[Eric&Barb]

Inspect the needle bearings in the FW to make sure they look good and add a small dab of grease into those or at least very lightly grease the input shaft tip where it rides inside the needle bearings. Not too much grease or risk slinging it out and all over the clutch parts.
Repeat greasing the needle bearings about every 30,000 or so miles when you happen to have out the engine.

Also:

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=589184&highlight=throw+out+bearing+greasing
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[Gwdghiaguy]

Spent all Saturday in what my wife calls the play pen. So i opened my book and started work on a clutch pedal that was frozen:

I have to post this because it took all morning to get this pedal free:




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This made me so happy! And a three foot pry bar is very helpful when trying to get the pedal arm shaft out of the bushings. In fact, it was necessary:

One step is to remove the horn. Decided to put 6v to it just for fun. nothing.

So then I put the fuel tank back. It has a new send unit. I don't know if I mentioned that the inside of this tank was spotless. So lucky with that because I spent untold hours cleaning the tank on my baywindow.

And I spent the rest of the day removing paint:

And I primed and painted the spots where I was too aggressive. Used Krylon Matte River Rock and it blends very well.

Its amazing the things you discover about your bus when you spend hours on it like this. Bondo, a dent I didn't know about, etc. You really get to know these things when you put the time in. thanks for looking in. byron
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[thirtyseven]

Nice job on revealing that OG light grey, and of course every step you made in between. The bus will look amazing !

[Gwdghiaguy]

So I'm getting close to putting the engine compartment back together and I pulled out my bags of stuff and got my voltage regulator out and found a condenser in there with it. What? So went through my disassembly pictures and found one:

can someone tell me what is going on here? I have a condenser in my distributor. Why this one too?

Here's what I pulled out of the bag; I took this off the bus and cleaned it up last year sometime:

I'm not finding that much detail in my Bentley book electrical schematic. I know just enough about electricity to be dangerous so I appreciate any comments about why this is so. thanks byron
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[BarryL]

It's from the past when AM radio and some FM radio picked up static through the antenna. That can be eliminated if you have a modern radio or if you get a rev hum or static put it on. There is a radio installation manual with photos somewhere on this site. Maybe someone can find it. It was talked about not too long ago when a guy was making a new wiring diagram.

[swiss_bulli]

There is a description in the technical bulletin E5 also hosted on this site. As already suggested, it is to suppress the noise/interference on radios.

[Gwdghiaguy]

Paint removal takes forever. I had to take the emblem off anyway so I couldn't resist putting it under the wire wheel, then rattle can primer and some dove white rustoleum. Stuck it back on just for kicks:

took the lights off to clean up all the wire ends and grounds. I traced so many faults in my 57 bug to dirty, rusty contacts. It really pays to clean everything up.

this weekend will be new accelerator cable, front shift rod bushing and bleed the brakes. small steps. byron
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[Warded]

Just stumbled upon your post looking for info on ‘63-specific 1500 bus tin, and I find your bus is just 1,000 buses older than mine, probably on assembly line or in line to be loaded on to a ship and destined for USA! Cool, huh?! I can’t tell in your M-code info but it doesn’t look like yours had the 1500 m216 option, huh? With small but big brake 1-ton trans? If I’m wrong and it does , do you mind sending me some sort of link to photos of the engine and it’s tin? Thanks!

[Gwdghiaguy]

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So what did it take to get to this point? Got the motor in no problem. Filled it with oil--no leaks! New battery connected and the 2 idiot lights up front light right up. Connected my remote starter, pulled the trigger and got an ominous click from the solenoid. Jumped the two terminals on the solenoid and it spins like it should. Jumped the hot terminal to the starter wire and the engine turns over. Yes! Did that a couple more times and the solenoid decides to come out of it's 35 year slumber. Got the engine turning over and feed fuel down the carb (no fuel in the tank yet) but it won't catch. Pulled a plug and no fire to the plug. So i spend most of yesterday evening trouble shooting. Took the distributor out and checked everything there-regapped the points (new points and condenser) reinstalled. Wiggled the positive battery cable and it just fell out of the terminal. So i went and bought a new one since the old one was full of crap and now I have spark! But 6 volts doesn't seem to give enough umph to get it started so I jumped it with my 12 volt tractor battery. I am a happy camper. Felt like Tom Hanks in Castaway when he made fire: Look what I have created! I'll put fuel in the tank tomorrow and see if it will actually move and stop. Fingers crossed. Byron
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[Gwdghiaguy]

One step forward, two steps back.

Put a gallon of fuel in the tank and gas started pouring out of every possible orifice. The worst one was the fuel pump. It was pouring out the top edge. Took that apart and found that the strainer is very brittle and wasn't sealing properly. Do rebuild kits include this? ARE there rebuild kits? And if there aren't, can I use something like this (from Amazon):

[Eric&Barb]

No, and no.

Just find some fuel proof paper gasket material at your FLAPS. Use the lid/top of the pump as a template and then cut out the inner diameter so it is not smaller than the inner edge of the outer part of the filter screen.

Personally found a black paper gasket that was good for both exhaust and fuel. Has worked well over many years.

Also give the lid/top a light sanding. Use a very flat surface to put the sandpaper face side up on. A used VW wing window works well.
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[Gwdghiaguy]

[EverettB]

[Gwdghiaguy]

Thank you, Everett! Didn't have the gasket and there's a small gasket that goes under the screw also. Didn't have either one. Ordered the whole kit! This has to be better than some cheap replacement pump. Byron
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[EverettB]

Oh yeah, it will leak BAD without those 2 gaskets.
I've had it leak like crazy even with old bad gaskets, either one
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