Day 25 – Seat Installation
I made a list of all the hardware (nuts, bolts, washers, studs) that I needed to buy then I drove over to Home Depot. Came back home and proceeded to mark out the location for where I wanted to place…
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Monthly Archive: October 2015
Day 24 – Freeing up a Stuck Brake Drum
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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Day 23 – Finished Painting the Front Beam
Front beam has been fully painted now. Glad that’s done. Check. Seemed like a good place to end the day. Share This:
Day 23 – Removing Rear Hubs / Trailing Arm Prep
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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Day 22 – New Rust, Dang That Didn’t Take Long!
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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Day 22 – Cleaning the Front Beam, Final Before Paint
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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Day 22 – Custom Torsion Confusion
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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Day 21 – Shifter Box Mock Up
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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Day 21 – Rear Shock Mounts
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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Day 21 – Seat Visualization
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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