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sleeve1
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10/29/2017 12:10pm Edited Date/Time 11/5/2017 4:08am


Picked this little beauty up today. It's going to be a project for my son and I.
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freeh
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10/29/2017 1:22pm
Nice! Outside looks great. What work does it need?
ledger
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10/29/2017 2:00pm
Nice. Peace Man....
Knoby
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10/29/2017 3:12pm
Project? Looks pretty done to me

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sleeve1
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10/29/2017 4:57pm

she's a solid little car but she is in need of some much needed love. The car has been sitting for the last six years in the back of a garage. The pic is after we washed the years of dust off, I must admit I didn't think it would look this good.
Fuel system will need gone through, I'll need to deal with the ignition as well as the brake system. Really looking forward to working on this classic with my son.
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10/29/2017 5:38pm Edited Date/Time 10/29/2017 10:45pm
There's no better car to learn how to spin wrenches on than a Bug. Good luck to you and your son.
10/29/2017 6:59pm
Looks like fun. I want one of those eventually for the desert.

When I was a kid I had a neighbor that had turbo bugs that ran crazy fast down the quarter mile
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10/29/2017 7:28pm
I feel confident the AC is not working, the auto transmission slips, and the brakes need to be bleed (at least the rear).

Man, that rear trunk is tiny.
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10/29/2017 9:59pm
Nice!
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10/30/2017 6:38am
I used to be able to drop an engine in 20 minutes, tear it down, rebuild it in 2.5 hours and be driving again 45 minutes after that. Vdub flats are super easy to work on. If thats a 1600cc, the 1835cc kit makes the beetle a monster, twin kehins or twin delortos if you can find them, super fun car that can handle its own. It just wont stop very well hahaha
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10/30/2017 8:37am
70-71?
JRT812
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10/30/2017 8:46am
Nice. Lets make a baja bug!
sleeve1
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10/30/2017 10:04am
avidchimp wrote:
70-71?
'70 numbers matching car.
Spent a little time last night doing some research abd get a parts list together.
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10/30/2017 10:40am
JRT812 wrote:
Nice. Lets make a baja bug!
There's some pretty cool ones out there. Quite a few years back, a buddy of mine rolled a 70's Toyota 4 wheeler. The body was toast but the rest of it was OK. He dug a 50's beetle body out of a junkyard and grafted it to the Toyota. Pretty trick looking when it was done. He also built pipe bumpers for it and used them for air reservoirs in the case of flats. I questioned his sanity a little over that one. Luckily he never blew one up.
newmann
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10/30/2017 10:53am
Nice. You can make them scoot pretty good too! Had a good friend of the shop here whose brother used to drag race them. Had another customer build up a trick one and had us paint it. Jesse James ended up buying it.

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10/30/2017 11:09am
I like a proper volkswagon beetle. . . one where the engine is in the back.
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10/30/2017 12:36pm
Nice!! Needs a set of Fuch's alloys and a stance (.5" / 1"). PIERSIDE PARTS (Huntington Beach, CA) is the "Newmann" of the beetle world----owner is very cool.
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10/30/2017 5:11pm
Dtat720 wrote:
I used to be able to drop an engine in 20 minutes, tear it down, rebuild it in 2.5 hours and be driving again 45 minutes...
I used to be able to drop an engine in 20 minutes, tear it down, rebuild it in 2.5 hours and be driving again 45 minutes after that. Vdub flats are super easy to work on. If thats a 1600cc, the 1835cc kit makes the beetle a monster, twin kehins or twin delortos if you can find them, super fun car that can handle its own. It just wont stop very well hahaha
I had a buddy in high school who dumped a 2100cc in his Beetle. Once he figured out the right weight for the clutch cable (snapped 3 cables trying), the thing was an absolute monster. Getting the front end off the ground was a piece of cake.
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10/30/2017 5:29pm
Fahrvegnugen!
avidchimp
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10/30/2017 7:20pm
avidchimp wrote:
70-71?
sleeve1 wrote:
'70 numbers matching car.
Spent a little time last night doing some research abd get a parts list together.
That's awesome. I had a 71 in high school that I dumped about 15 grand into. It had a billet case 1641 with dual Weber 40's and a transaxle engineering tranny that ran low 13's all day long... . I paid for the car and mod's by taking mustang owners money street racing in the 90's around the SFV. Wink

I miss that car.
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11/1/2017 8:16am
Wel, I got to do a little work on the bug last night.
did a compression test, checked out good. The fuel system is need of some serious atention. Rusty gas tank, shot fuel pump and the carb needs rebuilt.
Looking for a low cost method to remove\ stop the rust in the tank. Any suggestions would help...
newmann
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11/1/2017 9:11am
Evaporust is some amazing stuff for removing rust.

POR-15 make a all in one gas tank repair kit that is really good too. Done many motorcycle tanks with it and one for a car.
sleeve1
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11/1/2017 10:33am
newmann wrote:
Evaporust is some amazing stuff for removing rust. POR-15 make a all in one gas tank repair kit that is really good too. Done many motorcycle...
Evaporust is some amazing stuff for removing rust.

POR-15 make a all in one gas tank repair kit that is really good too. Done many motorcycle tanks with it and one for a car.
Thank you Newmann.
newmann
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11/1/2017 12:04pm
In between Gibby punting me over the berm, I do try to post usable info.Wink

Everyone should have some Evaporust on the shelf.



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11/1/2017 8:00pm Edited Date/Time 11/1/2017 8:02pm
IWreckALot wrote:
I like a proper volkswagon beetle. . . one where the engine is in the back.
Were they ever in the front?






OP,

Cool bug. Growing up, we always had one. We even had a baja version once!
sleeve1
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11/2/2017 3:51am
kzizok wrote:
Were they ever in the front?






OP,

Cool bug. Growing up, we always had one. We even had a baja version once!
I believe the new generation beattles engine is in the front.
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11/2/2017 6:19am
kzizok wrote:
Were they ever in the front?






OP,

Cool bug. Growing up, we always had one. We even had a baja version once!
sleeve1 wrote:
I believe the new generation beattles engine is in the front.
I think around 2000 is when they became front engine cars.

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