My 1970 Elm Green Squareback (Joann)

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[Chickensoup]

my gawd. i didnt look through the entire thread until now. that hoe was rustee! good to see you making her 1 piece again.

when r you gonna class 11 baja the thing?
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-'85 c10 5.3 LS, 222 cam, long tubes, x pipe, 3 inch spin tech's
-'05 B5.5 TDI Wagon 17in sport rims ;EGR + BSM + ASV Delete, Stage-2 Tune, straight pipe
'65 Tourist Delivery Build
'66 RIP
'69 RIP
Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"

[Ceckert64]

I used a tack of the my mug welder on the highest heat settings. They haven’t been coming loose so that is good.

I also had to replace my thermostat, I had noticed it was starting to not fully contract and it was going bad.

I’m planning on going to the Michigan Vintage Volkswagen festival in Ann Arbor on June 13 so if your local and want to check it out I should be there. Anyone planning on going?

Cool picture from a day ago

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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Ceckert64]

The MVVC Festival went great! The drive and there went well. At the very start of the trip I stopped a few miles from my house to get gas and a guy stopped me and said your valve cover is leaking. I look and there is a huge puddle of oil well, I had just checked the valve adjusted and I had gotten the valve on right and the cover caught on the edge of the head. Thankfully we stopped for gas and the guy caught that. I ended up going back home and topped off with oil and brought some extra. I was so lucky because the engine would have been toast if that wasn’t caught
Here are some photos from the day, I only got pictures of the show as everyone was clearing out and leaving so there aren’t many cars in the background.

While at the show I got to meet some members that are on the forums here Greg (Typ3nut), John and Jill (jaransonT3) in their 66 Squareback and got to see Dan (DQDAN) again. It was nice getting to talk and meet everyone! I plan on heading to the German invasion at the Gilmore Car museum next an Deb hopefully we can meet up again!
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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Ceckert64]

To backtrack a little, I have a few mechanical updates:
I decided to install a new center dash speaker and while I was at it decided to rebuild the fresh air boxes. So I started by tearing down the dash so I could get to everything. Also taking out the seats is a must to do that job. It would have been much harder with them left in. I let the glove box hang down and the wiper motor has enough wiring to take it out and set it aside but you don’t have to disconnect it.

In the picture below, you can see the three plastic welds on the fresh air box. If you are wanting to replace the foam seal like I did, you will have to get these spot welds apart. I melted them apart with a torch. Then there are two seams near the outer welds that are melted between the parts. Then you take out the flaps

Once I had the flaps out, I cleaned them and put on new foam pieces

Then I put it together and got the plastics hot and crimped it back together, but you may want to do something else

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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Chickensoup]

nice work! btw, im not trying to sound rude or pick on your cars flaws but... paint that floor pan yo!!!

also, is that a water leak?

but still nice work!
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-'85 c10 5.3 LS, 222 cam, long tubes, x pipe, 3 inch spin tech's
-'05 B5.5 TDI Wagon 17in sport rims ;EGR + BSM + ASV Delete, Stage-2 Tune, straight pipe
'65 Tourist Delivery Build
'66 RIP
'69 RIP
Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"

[Ceckert64]

[Ceckert64]

To start off, it’s decently good, not completely though but I’m within 60 miles of having put 10k miles on the car Fairly bug milestone I think.

Well, I managed to enlarge the crack in the windshield I found an engine stand at a garage sale for $20 and I’ve been looking for one. It didn’t fit in the back so I decided I would try to fit it in the back seat, I moved the seat forward and moved the backrest up and was pushing against the seat and the headrest popped out the windshield and cracked it. You can see the gap between the seal and body. It only popped out on the one corner and it went back in easy but now I have a huge crack and will get a new windshield now.

I also want to do the headliner if I do the windshield with other seals since the headliner is very ugly

Most import thing is I have going now is I want to get some new valves on the engine. I noticed the exhaust valves are stretching so I need to do that. I had a great plan in my head that I would rebuild the spare set of T3 heads I had so I could make a weekend job of doing the heads. Well… I cleaned them up and every chamber had a crack between the intake seat and plug hole and each head had one chamber with a crack between seats.

The I have a nice looking T1 head but it’s a low compression and T1 so not that. So that leads me to thinking, do you guys think 46,000 mile heads will have cracks? Could I get some new valves, lap, and install them? But I’m afraid I may end up getting it parked for a few weeks waiting for stuff to get done. But, my local VW shop has a couple T3 engines sitting outside I’m sure he’d let me get the heads off but they have been sitting outside and could be a risk. The main thing is getting heads wirh the CHT sensor hole, or is there a spot on a T1 head it could be mounted. Any thoughts?
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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Tram]

Cracks between seats are pretty common and while not ideal are not really a concern. Cracks between the seat and plug hole are, though.
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[DQDan]

I've got a couple of DP heads that might be better than what you've got, late ones as well. I'll dig them out and send you some pics. IIRC I had one good SP and one good DP. go figure.

[Ceckert64]

[Ceckert64]

Went to a local car show today with some VW friends. My friend’s 64 panel bus won a best of show trophy. Joann cleaned up nice. I had thought about going to the Gilmore car show but it wasn’t going to work out well

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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Ceckert64]

I forgot to mention a week or two ago I hit the 10k mile mark and stopped and got a picture 10k miles after buying it. I’ve been pretty happy with it so far. I finally found a pair of heads I think that are good. I will work on those and get a spare set going since mine possibly stretched a little. But I don’t think they are more or I adjusted them wrong. But original valves probably need to be replaced…
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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Ceckert64]

I got the proper 311 FI heads from the junkyard. No cracks but it has helicoils on the spark plug threads. Those look like they need to be replaced but I think these might heads might work.

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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Ceckert64]

Just thought I’d update a bit. I found that me and Joann made it into the September 2021 HotVWs! I picked up the magazine at a store on vacation and got it and then read through and found I was in it! A small mention but cool.

I’ve been lately getting annoyed by my rough idle and issues with hot starts and I’m going to try some different injectors, a new pressure regulator and maybe a new fuel pump. I figure it wouldn’t hurt as all of the current parts I’m running are original VW/Bosch, the injectors may be replacements but they are at least 20-30 years old that came off a severely worm engine that had blown up. So I have a question, should I get remanufactured injectors or new ones? Remanufactured are cheaper but what is better?
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1964 sunroof Beetle Restoration "Herbie"
“Joann” 1970 Elm Green Squareback
1972 Sierra Yellow Tin Top Westfalia Camper
“Fitz” 1971 Westfalia Poptop

[Chickensoup]

before you buy new ones, take the current injectors out. hook to a fuel pump, and inject power into the prongs. note the spray pattern and volume.

sometimes its obvious if they dirty or bad, but you can grab a bucket, let her rip for a minute, then measure how much you got.

You should have 18lbs/hr. which is 189cc/min. (Btw these injectors are good up to 120ish hp with a real ecu), so you dont need to upgrade to the T4 injectors unless you want to just because.

Heres some cheap off brand injectors,

https://www.partsgeek.com/gbproducts/DC/17363-0518...dQQAvD_BwE




Another thing you can do either after testing the above method or without testing at all, is to run some seafoam or injector purge. When injector clog it alters the spray pattern and limits flow, and because your ecu barely counts as a computer, it can make the needed fuel map changes. Yours is a closed loop system if that even what you call it given its not smart. at all. no offense

I would also test your IAT sensor, your Oil temp sensor(if it has one), and MAF.