What did you do to your Beetle this week?

[crocksvw]

Well after 20 years of sitting dismantled and primed with surface rust now. I drug my 66 out the barn to bring t back to life.

[OldFashion]

My 60 euro with new whitewall tires. I love how it came out

[FL-Frank]

'67 Savannah Beige Type 1 Sedan
180,500 miles on the chassis, 80,00 on the motor.

Performed 3,000 miles maintenance yesterday...

Pressure washed engine (top & bottom), and undercarriage.
Scraped flaking areas of orignal undercoating, painted undercarriage with low gloss black ceramic spray paint.
Adjusted valves @ .006
Changed oil (brad penn 10w-30)
Serviced air cleaner
Lubed front end
Adjusted brakes
Adjusted tire pressure

Heidi's all set now for the next 3,000 miles of driving fun!

[slave1pilot]

I had to clean out half of the garage so I can get a new roll-up door
So, Ol' Herb has go out on the curb on Thursday so they can install the new one.

While I was cleaning out the garage, I decided to vacuum up all of the sand that I left in the pan when I was doing some blasting earlier this year (yeah, I know)

Old pic with the old garage door...

And here he is out front with the new garage door in the background LOL

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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[lovethatconvertible]

[slave1pilot]

apparently not.
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Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[EverettB]

[Bomb Doctor]

I finally finished the King pin and Link pin shuffle on my daughters 1960. Taking it this morning for an alignment. No one around where I live can balance the 5-205 wheels so I had to bubble balance it. It has been a while since I had to do that.

[boxkiteflyer]

My '59 Bug is done! It has a new 1776 engine by Gary Berg. It has dual Kadrons, Berg deep sump, welded pick-up tube, remote filter, wedgemated flywheel, SVDA Flamethrower III dizzy, CB Performance breather box and other lesser but nice goodies. Voltage regulater moved to under the rear seat. It has a new Rancho Pro Street tranny. It has all new brake lines and brakes with disc conversion on front. The dual circuit master cylinder uses Dot 5 fluid. Any mounts, rubber, wire or fastener associated with the above items have been replaced or refurbished. Now it is going through the break in process. I gotta get some new pics! Thanks to my good friend, Bill, for his invaluable assistance and muscle during this five month ordeal! Kudos to his missus, Claudia, for feeding us at times and putting up with incessant 'VW speak'!

[Jay-Rod]

Roller Pedal.

And finally figured out what in the hell Im gunna do with the interior.
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1963 Beetle

[Cali_Army_Guy]

[67CarGuy]

Unloaded it off the car carrier for the first time, loaded it on a flatbed, and brought her home!

Photos to come shortly, although likely in my own thread...
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1967 Beetle (Family car - 2nd owner) ...What have I gotten myself into?!
1967 Plymouth Barracuda (Family car - 2nd owner) ...See a pattern yet?

[Kenc9]

In my 62 Ragtop I put new window lift and cleaned up and greased up. Put new Wind Wing post in new wind wings and rubber ( boy what a job) that rubber just wont push down and stay but it is in with wind wing closed.

Now the same thing for the passenger side.

[Corney13]

[Jay-Rod]

[Fred_e81]

Today I installed my new retrosound Hermosa radio. It looks awesome and it really woke up my speakers. The kenwood I had before did this thing no justice. Install was a bit annoying but well worth it. 1st pic with it on 2nd with it off. It came w optional radio station selection face plate sticker.

[klroger]

I took the body off the pan to start to get it repaired properly!!!!!

[scottyrocks]

I just now finished putting in and setting the ZV/PAU 4 R 5 distributor I got from Glenn many months ago.

I needed a .020 point gap to get a 52 (26 on the 8 cyl gauge) dwell, which is within the specified dwell range (50 +or-2, or 25 +or-1). With the specified .016 gap I was getting dwell numbers of just over 60.

Timed it after each dwell adjustment using static method shown by Chris Vallone.

It seems to run better, but I only went up and down the block. I'll know if there's an improvement when I get on the highway. Third gear is a dog in this car, but did feel peppier zipping up my block.

I do know it starts much easier.
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“If you care for a thing long enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? Mending old things, preserving them, looking after them – on some level there's no rational grounds for it.”
– D. Tartt, 'The Goldfinch'

[mark tucker]

finished rebuilding the steering box. now to find time to install it..after this herbiecane passes completely.

[scottyrocks]

Drove it out on the roads today. Quite the improvement. Smoother at higher speeds and rpms, and less butt-pucker merging onto the highway.
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“If you care for a thing long enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? Mending old things, preserving them, looking after them – on some level there's no rational grounds for it.”
– D. Tartt, 'The Goldfinch'