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tubbstravis
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 Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 4:15 pm Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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| Anyone have the part number for my front wheel cylinders? Late 64? I'm out of town and I'm wanting to swing by the shop on the way home tomorrow and buy some. I'm going ahead and redoing my drums until I get saved up for discs. |
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Donnie strickland
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tubbstravis
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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| Eds in gadsden. I work in Oxford |
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Donnie strickland
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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You might call them first with the number.
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tubbstravis
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 7:36 am Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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Update! I worked on the floor all weekend. I got it all cut and in! I have a few more welds to do. Here's what it looks like. I forgot to take a picture after I finished. Here's before I got the last panel in
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andybla
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 8:19 am Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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Good work  |
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Mike Fisher
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 9:23 am Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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Did you reinstall the rear kick panel that supports the rear seat bottom?
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tubbstravis
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 10:20 am Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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| Not just yet. I ran out of time this weekend. The bottom of it is rusted off about an inch. I'll need to fabricate the bottom before I put it back in. |
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Mike Fisher
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 10:37 am Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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Yeah, you might as well rebuild what you have because you won't find a perfect one to replace it.
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tubbstravis
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 1:08 pm Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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| So I am painting my car this weekend, I started last night and it looks super. It is running really well except for the backfiring issue I was having. I have a bad vacuum advance(not really but maybe). When I put my mouth on the vacuum advance line and suck, it advances and does really well. The problem is that the vacuum advance port on the carb seems to not be sucking hard enough. I rebuilt the carb and it is completely clean. The hole for the advance is tiny on the carb through, I am not sure what I need to do. It could be that it is sucking a little but I cant tell and the actual advance is weak, or it could be the advance is fine and that the suction is weak. |
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tubbstravis
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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Heres an update! The paint and the clear is done!
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tubbstravis
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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| also, I am having a bit of a shifting problem. It shifts very well between 1/2/3/4, but I am having troubles getting it to shift into reverse. I do not know what to do. |
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tubbstravis
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| Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 7:06 pm Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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Here is my final paint job. I started to finally do the brakes and I filled up the brake fluid reservoir and the brakes wouldnt bleed. I left the bleeder valves in the back open for hours to let gravity take its toll, but it didnt work. I didnt replace the steel lines that go from the rubber to the cylinders on any of the wheels, I think they are stopped up. the front brakes have bad cylinders and the lines are completely stopped up. Ill need new front lines and steel end pieces in the back hopefully I can fine some replacement cylinders in.
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Donnie strickland
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| Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 7:23 pm Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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If you send your wheel cylinders to Jim Adney, he can rebuild them. If you haven't replaced your rubber flex lines at all four wheels, he has those too. Yours will almost certainly be swelled shut inside.
Have you done anything with your shifter yet?
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tubbstravis
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:30 am Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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| Sure did! Got it situated well, it does sound kind of clunky though when I shift. that might just be how it is. |
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Erik G
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:42 am Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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Like we have been telling you - you are not going to find new wheel cylinders. You can rebuild the ones you have with parts from new rears. Even if you find "new" ones that are old and have been sitting, they will need to be rebuilt. The rubber is bad by now
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Bobnotch
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| Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 7:43 am Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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| Donnie strickland wrote: |
If you send your wheel cylinders to Jim Adney, he can rebuild them. If you haven't replaced your rubber flex lines at all four wheels, he has those too. Yours will almost certainly be swelled shut inside.
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I agree 100%. Send them to Jim for rebuilding. Pedro did that for his T-34 that he just finished, and he's got no complaints.
Also, after 40+ years, I'd definitely replace the rubber hoses. I ran into this problem back in 1989 with what's now my wife's Fastback. The front hoses were almost completely shut closed. In my case, the hoses were causing the brakes to be on all of the time.
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notchback
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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| Donnie strickland wrote: |
If you send your wheel cylinders to Jim Adney, he can rebuild them. If you haven't replaced your rubber flex lines at all four wheels, he has those too. Yours will almost certainly be swelled shut inside.
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I agree 100%. Send them to Jim for rebuilding. Pedro did that for his T-34 that he just finished, and he's got no complaints.
Also, after 40+ years, I'd definitely replace the rubber hoses. I ran into this problem back in 1989 with what's now my wife's Fastback. The front hoses were almost completely shut closed. In my case, the hoses were causing the brakes to be on all of the time. |
Do you have any idea what Jim charges for a set of 4 now?
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Donnie strickland
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 9:17 pm Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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| Donnie strickland wrote: |
If you send your wheel cylinders to Jim Adney, he can rebuild them. If you haven't replaced your rubber flex lines at all four wheels, he has those too. Yours will almost certainly be swelled shut inside.
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I agree 100%. Send them to Jim for rebuilding. Pedro did that for his T-34 that he just finished, and he's got no complaints.
Also, after 40+ years, I'd definitely replace the rubber hoses. I ran into this problem back in 1989 with what's now my wife's Fastback. The front hoses were almost completely shut closed. In my case, the hoses were causing the brakes to be on all of the time. |
Do you have any idea what Jim charges for a set of 4 now? |
I don't, but you can contact him at:
[email protected]
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Bobnotch
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 11:34 am Post subject: Re: My 64 notchback build thread |
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| Bobnotch wrote: |
| Donnie strickland wrote: |
If you send your wheel cylinders to Jim Adney, he can rebuild them. If you haven't replaced your rubber flex lines at all four wheels, he has those too. Yours will almost certainly be swelled shut inside.
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I agree 100%. Send them to Jim for rebuilding. Pedro did that for his T-34 that he just finished, and he's got no complaints.
Also, after 40+ years, I'd definitely replace the rubber hoses. I ran into this problem back in 1989 with what's now my wife's Fastback. The front hoses were almost completely shut closed. In my case, the hoses were causing the brakes to be on all of the time. |
Do you have any idea what Jim charges for a set of 4 now? |
I don't, but you can contact him at:
[email protected] |
No I don't, but if you contact him, he can give you a price (after the Invasion) on doing them. He's got a price list for some stuff, but I don't think front wheel cylinders was on it. In fact I think Pedro's were the first set he's done, as he was asking some list members questions on them. Jim mostly works on later stuff, but is willing to do early stuff too.
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71 Notch ...aka Krunchy; build pics here;
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249390 -been busy working
64 T-34 Ghia...aka Wolfie, under construction... http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=412120
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