'59 Karmann Ghia fever

[Trylon]

[TDCTDI]

There’s another hole in the axle 90° away, and six slots in the castellated nut, if you’re just over on one axle hole, you’ll be close on the other.
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An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[Trylon]

[kingkarmann]

[Trylon]

[The aussie Trimmer]

[Rome]

Nicely done driving video! I've been at nearly all of those spots in the last 40 years, other than the road with the arched bridge overpass... but that's probably near Falls Village. At the eastern end of the first covered bridge in West Cornwall, the Connecticut VW Association had a foliage tour in the early 00's where the group stopped on the east side of the Housatonic River. Then continued south on Rt 7 and had its next stop at Kent Falls which was on your route but did not stop "this time". I'm glad you made it through the 2nd covered bridge- Bulls Bridge- south of Kent right off Rt 7 on that drive. I have a photo in my gallery where I drove through it in my Beetle a few years ago. You probably know that if you'd go straight at that light instead of turning right (south) onto Rt 7, you can weave your way east to the western end of Lake Waramaug (the lake at the beginning of your video), or into New Preston again.

[TDCTDI]

Once you get the nut tight, keep an eye on it & check torque regularly, once they’ve been driven on loose, they have a nasty tendency to keep working loose.
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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.

[Trylon]

Like old times:

Torqued and re-pinned both axle nuts. The other one was already torqued correctly. And to be fair, only the loose one was making any noise. Funny how I did not notice the other hole options in the axle. Clearly, I originally loosened the nut to fit the pin and have paid the price.

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1973 Porsche 914 2.0
1959 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
1979 Volkswagen Rabbit
1973 Volkswagen Bus
1970 MGB-GT
1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire

More tomfoolery on
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[Trylon]

[Trylon]

[Trylon]

[TDCTDI]

Basically, the machined flat surfaces are no longer flat & the splined area in the drums becomes wallowed ever so slightly, this in turn gives enough slip that the drum shifts, a bit at a time, with each revolution. This in turn grinds away at the contact surfaces & eventually loosens up. You will see rusty dust.
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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.

[Trylon]

[Trylon]

Only those steeped in Karmann Ghia Fever lore will know why there is a little useless hole on the side of the brake drum…

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1973 Porsche 914 2.0
1959 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
1979 Volkswagen Rabbit
1973 Volkswagen Bus
1970 MGB-GT
1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire

More tomfoolery on
The Karmann Ghia Fever YouTube Channel!

[Redlabel6]

[Trylon]

[Trylon]

Adjusted the valves. Well, Alex checked them and they were all fine. So put the wheels back on and had a little adventure today.

Kool Kats in Karmann Ghia’s Gettin’ Koffee.

Klunks gone! So loose axle nut was the culprit.

But, right after this picture, our car wouldn’t start.
None of your were there so I was on my own.
I seem to have a similar problem restarting after a short park. I try to start it and only hold the ignition on for the same amount I would for cold starting. Quite short.
It seems that this is too short for a warm start (harkens back to our warm start problems of yore). Typically, another try or two with pumping accelerator starts it — but not this time. Tried many times and though strong engine turn over, no start was to be had. Went back and checked if we had done something untoward but that seemed unlikely as we had gotten this far. I remembered that Alex had a bit of trouble snapping on the distributor cap so removed and redid. Nothing.
In the back of my mind the vague idea of “flooded carburetor” kept arising. Perhaps my pumping the accelerator pedal had caused such a thing to happen. As I am not very clear what this is and what causes and what to do about, I googled it (luckily I had bars). Found that it is more vapor lock than flooding and was informed to hold the accelerator pedal to the floor and turn the engine over no more than five seconds at a time.
I followed the instructions, and to my (and Alex’s) amazement, up it started. As we had visions of tow trucks dancing in our heads, we cautiously drove about the parking lot a bit before taking to the road home.
We made it without further incident but I realize I need to know more about what went wrong and how what I did fixed it.

In any case, got beans for cold brew— gonna brew it up right now!
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1973 Porsche 914 2.0
1959 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
1979 Volkswagen Rabbit
1973 Volkswagen Bus
1970 MGB-GT
1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire

More tomfoolery on
The Karmann Ghia Fever YouTube Channel!

[Vladiiiii]

Always remember, warm/hot engine, or warm/hot outside?
Slowly floor the gas, then turn the key while keeping it pinned. When it starts coughing into life, let go of the pedal.

Having the original fuel pump in the engine bay makes it vapour lock easier than say an electric fuel pump under the tank. (because there is less gas in the hot engine compartment).

How did I learn the above? I had my wife push me after my first ever aircooled drive, because I didn't know how to properly start a hot engine and flooded the carb Only then I read the exact description in the manual
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Vlad's 72 Ghia (Once in a Lifetime Restoration topic)
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9237746#9237746

[Trylon]