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1968BUGMAN
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Over the weekend, I went down a size on the idle jet. Ran like poo off throttle no matter how I adjusted the mixture. Put the 45 (progressive) back in. Idles rich as hell, but runs great. I also found the choke wasn't fully opening. I think it's just bad, but I opened it way up so it would for sure stay open when driving. Cold it only closes a little bit.
I think the issue is the crap heat to the manifold. Aftermarket exhaust, so there's no low pressure side to keep the exhaust flowing.
Deciding now whether to keep fixing things for this progressive, or rebuild the duals that came on the 2180 and use them. (All I know is they're Brosols.) |
I would probably rebuild the duals, although that depends on what they are. Although they probably get worse gas mileage. I use dual 44 idfs and the gas mileage sucks, especially on the freeway because the main jets are probably too big. And if your duals don't have a choke then it might be better to use the progressive. Duals also suck to adjust unless if you cut access holes. And the progressive could be of a higher quality depending on what brand it is.
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DurocShark
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Meh, it's an Empi proggy. I cleaned all the passages and rejetted it per John's recommendations for a 1600, and it runs great everywhere except idle. Unless I have it stupid rich. I didn't buy his manifold though. It's nicer than the Empi one, but $$ I couldn't afford at the time I built this engine.
My 2180 will be getting FI if we get bonuses this year. So I don't mind swiping the duals from that engine. Current engine is an 1835, so I've been fiddling with the jets, but his base recommendations seem to work well on this engine. Lots of HP, not as torquey as the 2180 (obviously). Since it's a baja, I have pretty good access to things. Aside from the annoying location of the mixture screw on the progressive. 
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1968BUGMAN
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unclewede
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| Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 11:29 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Towed it into garage to replace ANOTHER broken clutch cable. I don't know if the kid driving with an un-diagnosed stress fracture in his left foot from the baseball game had anything to do with it or not  |
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1968BUGMAN
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Paul Windisch
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:02 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| Does anybody know of a part that I could install so that when a turn to full lock it doesn't make the suspension parts rub on the tires and wheels? For the most part this isn't a problem but I don't want to hurt the tires or other parts. |
There should be an adjustable stop on the steering box. I just made this adjustment to mine last week, as the right front tire would rub on the pan when backing up and the wheels full lock to the right. The adjustable stop contacts the pitman arm.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:22 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| unclewede wrote: |
| Towed it into garage to replace ANOTHER broken clutch cable. I don't know if the kid driving with an un-diagnosed stress fracture in his left foot from the baseball game had anything to do with it or not |
Learn or teach kid how to install a clutch cable, and make sure that it's well lubed. And that the clutch hook on the pedal is OK and greased too, with the cable eye greased too.
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1968BUGMAN
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 1:00 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| Paul Windisch wrote: |
| 1968BUGMAN wrote: |
| Does anybody know of a part that I could install so that when a turn to full lock it doesn't make the suspension parts rub on the tires and wheels? For the most part this isn't a problem but I don't want to hurt the tires or other parts. |
There should be an adjustable stop on the steering box. I just made this adjustment to mine last week, as the right front tire would rub on the pan when backing up and the wheels full lock to the right. The adjustable stop contacts the pitman arm. |
Okay thank you. I will look for that and hopefully it solves my problem but considering the condition of my steering box the adjustment might not work.
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Paul Windisch
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 1:02 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| 1968BUGMAN wrote: |
| Paul Windisch wrote: |
| 1968BUGMAN wrote: |
| Does anybody know of a part that I could install so that when a turn to full lock it doesn't make the suspension parts rub on the tires and wheels? For the most part this isn't a problem but I don't want to hurt the tires or other parts. |
There should be an adjustable stop on the steering box. I just made this adjustment to mine last week, as the right front tire would rub on the pan when backing up and the wheels full lock to the right. The adjustable stop contacts the pitman arm. |
Okay thank you. I will look for that and hopefully it solves my problem but considering the condition of my steering box the adjustment might not work. |
The adjustment is really just a bolt that contacts the pitman arm. There are two of these bolts; one for the right stop, and one for the left. On the other side of each of these bolts is a lock nut.
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-Engle W110 cam
-CB Super Stock 1.1:1 Rockers
-Stock Heat Exchangers w/ Tri-Mil Muffler
-Dual Weber IDF 40s w/ 26mm venturis
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Paul Windisch
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 1:08 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Here's a pic of one of the stops:
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-L3 Heads 35x32 valves 52cc chambers
-0.040" deck for about 9.1:1 Compression
-Engle W110 cam
-CB Super Stock 1.1:1 Rockers
-Stock Heat Exchangers w/ Tri-Mil Muffler
-Dual Weber IDF 40s w/ 26mm venturis
-034 SVDA Distributor
2013 Chevrolet Volt DD
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unclewede
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 1:50 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| unclewede wrote: |
| Towed it into garage to replace ANOTHER broken clutch cable. I don't know if the kid driving with an un-diagnosed stress fracture in his left foot from the baseball game had anything to do with it or not |
Learn or teach kid how to install a clutch cable, and make sure that it's well lubed. And that the clutch hook on the pedal is OK and greased too, with the cable eye greased too. |
I imagine it's something that is relatively easy to fix, but considering it's his DD, I have to work, and I think the guy charges about $60. . .
Since it's his LEFT foot, he's driving mom's automatic, I'm riding the motorcycle, and mom is driving my manual truck. This may be the time I break down and take it to an auto-electric specialist and get the darn battery charging from the alternator too. |
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1968BUGMAN
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DurocShark
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 9:48 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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I recently worked on mine.
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https://i.imgur.com/A0YkKq2.mp4
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| Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2019 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| I put my 69 up for sale. |
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DurocShark
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| Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| custodian wrote: |
| I put my 69 up for sale. |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Today I installed a gas pedal repair kit. Pain in the butt to do it in the car. But it's done. The old pedal pin would slide all the way to the right, to rest against the tunnel. Pedal would immediately start to jam up. Ugh. BTW: What the *HELL* do you do with the spring? I can't get it to stay in the space provided, so I'm obviously doing something wrong. I figured it's to tension into the notch in the pin to keep it from moving. But it's useless.
I also installed an aluminum short shift kit. Shifts are far shorter, true. But everything feels a little rougher now. Sigh. Trade one for the other I suppose.
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1968BUGMAN
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| Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 8:55 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Bought new main and idle jets for my 44's. Im switching to 115 main and 45 idle. I'll see what it ends up doing. Also, I bought some wiper arms and blades so that I can have wipers  And I finally got the things to hold the logo in place on my hood! The next step is putting my breather box in so that it wont leak water and assembling the wipers. Also, does anybody know how to keep the sunroof from slipping? It will open and close partially but it doesn't move the sunroof up into place so it leaks water. This could really be a problem when it starts raining...
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dubsteez79
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| Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:02 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Today I installed a gas pedal repair kit. Pain in the butt to do it in the car. But it's done. The old pedal pin would slide all the way to the right, to rest against the tunnel. Pedal would immediately start to jam up. Ugh. BTW: What the *HELL* do you do with the spring? I can't get it to stay in the space provided, so I'm obviously doing something wrong. I figured it's to tension into the notch in the pin to keep it from moving. But it's useless.
I also installed an aluminum short shift kit. Shifts are far shorter, true. But everything feels a little rougher now. Sigh. Trade one for the other I suppose. |
My shifts got better after I installed mine and adjusted it. I put new bushings in the shift coupler at the same time though.
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DurocShark
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| Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| DurocShark wrote: |
Today I installed a gas pedal repair kit. Pain in the butt to do it in the car. But it's done. The old pedal pin would slide all the way to the right, to rest against the tunnel. Pedal would immediately start to jam up. Ugh. BTW: What the *HELL* do you do with the spring? I can't get it to stay in the space provided, so I'm obviously doing something wrong. I figured it's to tension into the notch in the pin to keep it from moving. But it's useless.
I also installed an aluminum short shift kit. Shifts are far shorter, true. But everything feels a little rougher now. Sigh. Trade one for the other I suppose. |
My shifts got better after I installed mine and adjusted it. I put new bushings in the shift coupler at the same time though. |
I did my bushings recently, so everything felt really good. Just a long reach. The shift kit took out some of the smoothness, but I guess it's to be expected. Everything is compressed in time, not just the throw distance.
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DurocShark
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| Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 4:52 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Yesterday I drove my 68 Baja to work. There was a strange metallic noise that was RPM dependent. Whether accelerating or decelerating.
Sounded kind of like a piece of cooling tin was touching the fan.
When I got home I started poking around. Found a couple of tin screws were a bit loose, but nothing that caused the noise. After tightening everything up, the noise was still there.
I began pushing and pulling on things while revving the engine. Pushing the fan shroud forward cleared the noise. AH-HA! I checked the torque on the fan bolt, but it was fine. Then I looked down and saw the alternator clamp...
Damn thing had worked its way forward and off the stand. The alt was flexing the shroud and the fan was rubbing. FFS.
Loosened the clamp, slid it rearward where it belonged, and TIGHTENED THE HELL out of it. That fixed the noise completely.
Whew! I'm glad I figured it out. That could have been far more interesting than I would like.
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