I'm Buggin' Out Man.

[MommysLittleMonster]

Wow, now this is what I call a restoration.

[Leftouch]

New shoes, wheel cylinders, lines, brake cables.


Adjustable pre-load coils and c/v shafts in, along with rear brake lines


New front beam and painted steering box in.


Pan seal glued in,

[Leftouch]

Updates and all that good stuff... Pan has been welded and sprayed black, along with the beam. When through one set of ball joints, I will never use CIP1 again. Bought a set of euromax ball joints. Pressing the joints was a completer cluster fuck, they didn't fit right, boots tore, and I had to buy another eccentric camber adjuster. All said and done, I couldn't turn the steering knuckles, even with all of my weight/force, which is unacceptable. Their response: Just drive it... I've spent a fair amount of money with them in the past few months. After this bit of customer service, they aren't seeing another dime of my money.

Anywho, got a decent set of trw/varga joints from SoCal, they went in beautifully, and work great.

Enough talk, time for pictures.

Got the trans in, took the full 3 minutes.


In order to get a decent coat of paint on the pan and arms I decided to pull the stub shafts. The passenger side shaft had to be bashed out with sledge hammer, also managed to trash a backing plate... Almost set the car on fire, but senses prevailed. 1 stub shaft and inner bearing and I'm back in business. Odd thing is, the driver side shaft could be pressed out with the push of a thumb.

Backing plates and stub shafts awaiting a coat of paint.


Broke out the tubing bender and got to running new lines and brakes.

[Edgar.]

Your avatar is a great reaction. I'd use it now. Nice mate.

[Leftouch]

PAINT!

The interior was shot with a coat of ossiblau and light coat of clear.

[Leftouch]

Had some time to finish trimming and checking fit on the pans. It's starting to look like a car again.



7,000 gallons of acetone and a few hours with the wire wheel and we're one step closer to spraying and jambing the interior.

I will never strip another headliner... Rather, the next time I'm media blasting all the old glue and paint off.



Masked and awaiting k36, dbc and clear.



If all goes well, wednesday the interior will be sprayed with base and clear!!

To be continuificated.

[Leftouch]

Thanks for the compliments guys, getting close to turning the corner with the beetle.

After all of the slag burns and splash from MIG welding, it was a treat to break out the TIG torch, but sadly it wasn't for fancy dime stacked welds. Just a small seam to affix some studs for the coil.





All purty'd up, slapped on a breather for the oil neck and the motor is 100% ready for install when the paint is done.


More...

[mart1n95]

Love following this thread bud, had to do tons of work on my bug, new drivers side floorpan, 2 new heater channels, new spare wheel…… the list goes on haha anyway here's a pic of mine with a4" narrowed beam, drop spindles and down two splines at the back

[C-Hutch]

This whole process took literally: tens of minutes.

That pretty much sums up a bug build haha. good stuff so far.

[los02]

Whereabouts in essex? I know a couple people that live down back river neck/ turkey point area.

If they have ever bought Honda parts, then they probably know of me.

I'm THAT guy!

[Leftouch]

Yes, Essex. Close enough.

Whereabouts in essex? I know a couple people that live down back river neck/ turkey point area.

wow i totally give you credit man that is a shit ton of rust

Nice to see someone saving a Beetle...Going to be super nice!

Very neat work, its gonna look good!!!

Clean work!

Thanks guys, hopefully I'll have it painted soon and a fitment check will be in order.

Small update- Replaced trans seals, kind of a pain in the ass with the incorrect tools.


-Final drive seals are fun, trying to prevent all the dried grease that has accumulated from falling into the diff bearings.


Pulled apart, cleaned and resprayed the pedal assemblage- (dan almost ate a grinding stone when grinding the rust off a pedal)


I had a real idiot moment. When you assemble the clutch pedal on the end, the whole assembly is locked in and has to be hammered apart to change any component. First time I installed the brake spring backwards, second time I installed the clutch rod upside down. Wasn't exactly firing on all cylinders that day.

Through camera magic it's all back together, properly.


More progress to come...

[los02]

los you from around here too?

Yes, Essex. Close enough.

[Nick475]

los you from around here too?

[los02]

Very nice! And your down the street in Parkville. All these cars coming out of BC is great!

[notolther]

One of my closest friends, Dan



"Bro, are you hammering out an interpretation of the Mona Lisa?"
"Almost done man".............3 hours later..........ha