Follow me as I build a Berrien Sand Rail buggy!
In a earlier post, I was having difficulty removing the brake drum on the passenger side. I damaged the side of the drum by hitting it with a small sledgehammer. At any rate, I was able pop by Less Steger’s…
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Front beam has been fully painted now. Glad that’s done. Check. Seemed like a good place to end the day. Share This:
Just cut off the brake line, about to pop that spring clip loose that holds the rubber line to the brake line junction. I want to remove all that I can so I can come in later and use my…
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So, it’s only been a few days since I bolted on tne new EMPI brake master cylinder. I guess in my haste, I forgot to paint it. I just noticed that some rust had started to appear on it. I…
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Ok, so I quit fooling with the torsion bars and started working on the front. Time to take off the front shocks and sand down the rest of the front beam. I pulled off the broken rubber. Incidentally, not my…
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I was able to chat with my good friend Less Steger today. He answered many questions that I had where I felt like I was stuck. Here I am placing the stock torsion bars back into the donor rear end….
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While I was mulling ideas over, I decided to place the shifter box into the car and run the shift rod through it. The alignment looks okay but, I need to hook it up and see if the car will shift…
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My backordered items came into today from Apple Tree Auto. These are the shock mounts and stock VW rear shocks. The stock shocks are too wide to fit into this shock mount. I took the same shock mount around to the front…
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Looks like I got me a delivery! Woot! Yep, my new seats came in! Let me just pause here a moment and say, there was nothing physically wrong with the seats I received with this buggy…they just sat too high up to…
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Okay, now I thought I would try and install the torsion arms. Bolt check. The rubber grommets that I bought will not fit in this hole. Not sure what to do now…stuck! And, these rubber grommets won’t fit here either…what’s the deal? Well,…
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