How Did YOU Fix It?

[Holey42001]

[Cusser]

[74Shovel]

I made a replacement fuel vapor trap for my '78 Super Beetle to replace the one a previous owner had made. Here's the one from the previous owner:

And here's what I replaced it with:

[ps2375]

I made this throttle cable pivot to keep the cable from rubbing on tube (as it had in the past) and it really helped the smoothness of the feel of it.

[gt1953]

Clutch cable adjusting tool. Why purchase one.

https://vwparts.aircooled.net/Clutch-Adjusting-Wrench-Tool-EACH-p/clutch-adj-tool.htm
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72 type 1
72 Squareback
({59 Euro bug, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 73 type ones 68 & 69 type two, 68 Ghia all sold})

[bobinphx]

Homemade? Well,,,, sort of.

I couldn’t keep my valves in adjustment more than a couple of hundred miles using adjusters from my local independent parts house. Inspection found that the adjusters were flatting out at the tips.
I gotten a bunch of used adjusters that I believe to be genuine old german vw adjusters in a parts deal. So I tried using them. Yea, they were worn pretty well, but they adjusted up fine. 500 or so miles, still adjusted perfectly.

Scratching my head a bit, I ran a file over the new valve adjuster tips and the file bit in fairly deep. I ran the same file over one of the "genuine" valve adjusters and the file skated across the tip like skating on an ice skating rink right after the Zamboni was done. My guess was that there was no heat treating on the new ones.

I read up on how to harden metal, watched a couple of YouTube videos and spoke to a buddy who does forge work. I figured what the heck. So I took one of the new crummy adjusters, heated the end to a bright cherry red and then quenched it in salt water. Did the file test again and the file skated across new adjuster with no resistance, just like the genuine article.

I put the new newly heat treated adjusters in about 500 miles ago and guess what? Nothing was out of adjustment. So my homemade heat treated valve adjusters appear to be working. More miles and more time will tell the full story.

[bobinphx]

Homemade warm air intake hole blockoff. Made with 1/8 inch thick aluminum plate and a scroll saw. Quick and easy.

[bobinphx]

Fresh air intake cover. My air box was fully sun rotted, so it was removed. This let rain into the trunk. 1/8 inch aluminum, a scroll saw and a little thin rubber gasket under it. I bolted the plate through the vents into a second piece of aluminum inside the trunk. Its been about a year, so I really should take it off and re-polish it.

[Cusser]

[hopkin]

I forgot about this one on my last post, a cover for the luggage area. My car came with one that was badly damaged, so I used it for a template and cut a new one out of a piece of half inch plywood.

I covered it with some indoor/outdoor carpet. Later I cut out a recessed area in the center to store the spare light bulb/fuse kit (blue), as it was sliding around in the front of the car.

The 'VOLKSWAGEN' script is off of my very first car ('71 Super) that I bought way back in 1977. I removed it from the car before I scrapped sometime in the early '80s:

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1971 Super Beetle (past)
1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car)

[AlmostHeavenWV_VW]

Found a pic of my homemade heat tube under the rear seat that goes from the bakelite tube to the heater channel snout

Two fernco reducing couplings from the hardware store and a length of preheat hose from the FLAPS. Seals well and gets the heat where it needs to be.

Costs about $20 to do both sides
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1973 Standard Beetle
1600DP AK case
Solex 34PICT3 Carb
Bosch DVDA 205AJ Distributor

[Holey42001]

Ok not really a homemade part but I put 60lbs of bench press weights in the front to make the ride a little softer on these Fresno, CA roads (thanks to the man in Sacramento, what a joke ). Anyways, there’s one of those swamp cooler hay filters on the bottom and two rags on the sides to keep them from sliding back and forth.

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If it’s not leaking oil, there probably isn’t any left.

1973 Standard Bug
1972 MG Midget
1973 Hilux w/flatbed & crate motor
1989 Aero & Adams FV

[flat4olsen]

Homemade "Jet Doctors". Made from a piece of brake line epoxied in place. Haven´t had a plugged idle jet since.

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Type 1 1968, Lotosweiss. 2109 oxyboxer engine
Early Bay 1970, Montana Red. Under construction

[APPLEGREENVW]

[flat4olsen]

The throttle linkage is from Swedish Logmech: http://logmech.se/eng/products/carburator/throttlecontrol-cable-kits/
Very nice product, and easy to syncronize.
Thanks,- the bottom air cleaner setup is sold to a gentleman from USA by the way
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Type 1 1968, Lotosweiss. 2109 oxyboxer engine
Early Bay 1970, Montana Red. Under construction

[APPLEGREENVW]

[quote="flat4olsen"]The throttle linkage is from Swedish Logmech: http://logmech.se/eng/products/carburator/throttlecontrol-cable-kits/
Very nice product, and easy to syncronize.
Thanks,- the bottom air cleaner setup is sold to a gentleman from USA by the way [/quot


Thanks for the info on the linkage kit.The price looks good,but I'm not sure about shipping cost. How come you didn't add,warm air from the engine to the air cleaner setup?
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02/76 Beetle sedan

[flat4olsen]

Two reasons: cold air is denser than hot air, thus containing more oxygen and therefore extracting more power from the engine.
And,- it´s a summer car, so I chosed 1 5/8” J-tubes over heat exchangers. Again, to enhance performance.
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Type 1 1968, Lotosweiss. 2109 oxyboxer engine
Early Bay 1970, Montana Red. Under construction

[plotch]

Fresh air pick-up rerouted to the interior, to pick-up warm air. A
little wood a little PVC. And a bracket for the Rabbit windshield washer bottle.

[APPLEGREENVW]

[Holey42001]