1968 Beetle (farm find) restomod build

[heimlich]

That's a nice car.
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[baldessariclan]

[TDCTDI]

A pared down, old grocery cart works well too.

Harbor freight also sells furniture dollies, or even wheel dollies to roll your car around on, that can be used for the engine.
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[baldessariclan]

[Semper Gumby]

[heimlich]

The harbor freight carts work great. I have them holding up pallets of parts. I have engines sitting on them for years.
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[Semper Gumby]

If only this dirt and sand could talk, wonder what it would say

Wiring harness has seen better days - and given most of the snaps were bent - PO must have monkeyed with this portion of the harness as I'm finding patch work everywhere

Now I can see why I had no license plate light - no ground?

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[viiking]

[Buggeee]

[Semper Gumby]

[Semper Gumby]

Now that is going to take a little effort to get back straight

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[Glenn]

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[toxicavenger70]

[Busstom]

I'll second the HF furniture dollies, I have 'em all over the place, large and small ones, even one with a full-up engine, been rolling around for three years, out of the rain, back to the sun, out of the rain again, back to the sun You can even pair them up at the ends of 2-bys and make long rolling lumber carts, I have...they're surprisingly quite tough.
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[baldessariclan]

[jeffrey8164]

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this Motorcycle/ATV lift.
Back in the day I used a 2 floor jack method. Much younger and stronger then.
Now I have a Quick Jack to lift the car and a support platform that attaches to the floor jack to roll the motor around. Works fine for now. Still getting older.
My next project is a chain hoist on a trolley to lift the engine up and onto a stand.
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[Semper Gumby]

[Semper Gumby]

While visual progress seems glacial, we did get the bug stripped down and a good field expedient cleaning. Most importantly, I "field day'd" the garage as my wife thought the PB Blaster and other solvents finally got the best of me.

Despite the appearance, the rear deck is solid and no soft spots on the rear deck vent side. It looks like body filler but I swear PO used glue here - will know more when I remove the paint

Doubt these brakes would have lasted a test drive - found ZERO brake fluid in the system.

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