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Big Bill
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Joined: June 21, 2005
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Location: Santa Rosa, Ca
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 Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 4:08 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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Started to change out the old door panels on the 67 today, took longer than I expected only got the drivers side done today  A shot of the old one and also the new one much nicer.
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iowegian 
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Joined: February 16, 2005
Posts: 9829
Location: Somewhere between Dubuque and Keokuk
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 12:28 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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Serviced the battery and installed an old-school disconnect switch (developed by my dad in the 1930's).
After that I installed my new, correct dark brown Bosch distributor cap.
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Big Bill
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Joined: June 21, 2005
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Location: Santa Rosa, Ca
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 6:32 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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| Looking good iowegian funny how just some small things finish things off. How do you like the plug wires you have installed, are they a decent length and not way too long like most for sale now? Could you show a shot of their routing?. Thanks |
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iowegian
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Joined: February 16, 2005
Posts: 9829
Location: Somewhere between Dubuque and Keokuk
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 8:15 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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| Big Bill wrote: |
| Looking good iowegian funny how just some small things finish things off. How do you like the plug wires you have installed, are they a decent length and not way too long like most for sale now? Could you show a shot of their routing?. Thanks |
The plug wires are an extra set of Bosch that I got from Rocky Mountain Motorworks over 20 years ago.
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Big Bill
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Joined: June 21, 2005
Posts: 1782
Location: Santa Rosa, Ca
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 5:30 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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Thank You they look great.  |
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RBurn
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Joined: May 08, 2016
Posts: 115
Location: Northern Ca
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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Ok had my rims painted this week with correct colors and went with P155 /80 R15 BF Goodrich radial tA.
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iowegian
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Joined: February 16, 2005
Posts: 9829
Location: Somewhere between Dubuque and Keokuk
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:16 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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| Great looking car. I really like the correct red fender beading too. |
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racerock
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Joined: April 14, 2021
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Location: Maryland
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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| iowegian wrote: |
| Serviced the battery and installed an old-school disconnect switch (developed by my dad in the 1930's).[/img] |
hope you also installed an automatic halon system... either that or you wanted to install a seat heater for the right rear passenger.
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iowegian
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Joined: February 16, 2005
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Location: Somewhere between Dubuque and Keokuk
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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| racerock wrote: |
hope you also installed an automatic halon system... either that or you wanted to install a seat heater for the right rear passenger. |
Thanks for your concern, but if you look again you'll see that the disconnect is on the negative battery terminal so not much chance of shorting out as long as the positive terminal is protected. |
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racerock
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Location: Maryland
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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| iowegian wrote: |
| racerock wrote: |
hope you also installed an automatic halon system... either that or you wanted to install a seat heater for the right rear passenger. |
Thanks for your concern, but if you look again you'll see that the disconnect is on the negative battery terminal so not much chance of shorting out as long as the positive terminal is protected. |
Good call. |
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racerock
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 5:55 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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| iowegian wrote: |
Thanks for your concern, but if you look again you'll see that the disconnect is on the negative battery terminal so not much chance of shorting out as long as the positive terminal is protected. |
Good call. On a positive not, perhaps I helped someone that looked at the pix and decided to install on the positive side. |
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hobthebob
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Joined: December 08, 2021
Posts: 375
Location: Austin, TX
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2022 7:31 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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My carburetor began leaking from multiple locations, leaving the float bowl drained after a few hours/overnight. Thankfully, a good man at a car show in November gave me an extra carburetor for free.
So, last night I took the spare carb apart, boiled all the parts in lemon juice, and rebuilt it this morning. This was my VERY first time rebuilding/cleaning a carb. I'm very proud of myself!
Old, leaky carb next to freshly cleaned and rebuilt carb:
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iowegian
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Location: Somewhere between Dubuque and Keokuk
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 12:08 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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I figured out a non-invasive way to mount these little European Tourist badges that I got from a gentleman in Budapest, Hungary. Mounted them to a cardboard visor sleeve.
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Bajabug1968
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Location: Washington
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2022 9:41 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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this week I finally pulled the body off my 64 and sanded the roof down to bare metal without looking at the weather thinking "oh I'll just prime it tomorrow" and realized it was going to rain and had to cram it into our garage with our two other bugs tight squeeze!
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ScottDoonan
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Joined: August 04, 2005
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Location: Northern California
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2022 12:28 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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Put new thermostat into 67 and tested all was working as well as adjust with use of heat gun.
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1959 Karmann Ghia Cabriolet (current restoration)
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toxicavenger70
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Joined: July 28, 2019
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Location: CO
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2022 1:49 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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That looks like a great product he produces. If my og version goes bad then I will pick one up from him. Thanks for the post! |
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ScottDoonan
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2022 3:51 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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They have great stuff and are great to deal with. Check out the website for all they have.
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1959 Karmann Ghia Cabriolet (current restoration)
1965 Porsche 356 SC coupe
1967 Volkswagen Convertible Beetle
1969 Porsche 911E Targa 3.2 twin plug
2006 Porsche 987 Rüf 3400K Prototype #2 of 2 |
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napgonz
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Joined: June 11, 2021
Posts: 87
Location: California
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2022 10:01 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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| I installed a new "hot start relay" as I was having problems with the car starting. It worked out nicely. I'm proud of my self as I'm fairly new to bugs. |
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lhd65bug
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Joined: September 04, 2020
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Location: United Kingdom
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 6:51 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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Fiited Hella Reversing Lamps (ex U.K. fleaBay) to my '67 California Bug.
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Big Bill
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Joined: June 21, 2005
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Location: Santa Rosa, Ca
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 7:10 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Beetle this week? |
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| toxicavenger70 wrote: |
That looks like a great product he produces. If my og version goes bad then I will pick one up from him. Thanks for the post! |
I just pieced together a complete thermostat unit for my 67. Mine was MIA (thank you Mr.PO) when I bought it, got the bracket at a VW swap and the thermostat and rod from a local VW shop. Where you able to install it with the engine in the car, or was it out of the car? I picked up two rods with it one is a little longer and has a different shape. Thanks for the heads up about AP products.
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