First day back and could not resist a quick dress up having fitted the indicator eyes.
Then quickly on to interior cab details such as sun visors, bench seat and dash grab handle for example.
Old badge looks brilliant, and again the tatty old door cards will look the business. Not to everyone's taste but even my eldest positively commented on the completely tatty rear bumper once added.....impressive considering the style of heritage is such a thin line.
LED lamps versus heat lamp lighting..................must fit at least 8 of these micro spots plus an array of bigger overhead ones. Still love the heat ones anyhow!!!!
Gear box is in, clutch cable and pedal, front bearings flushed and refitted, even have VW stamps on the bearings, LEGEND!!!! ...........................................Might need new ones though!!!!!
Oh I also sprayed the engine bay and fuel tank, fitted the tank and the loom and then the engine.
I am quite on a roll here in retrospect. Your battery is dead so had to fit my spare one.
Night shifts man, that you in this space soon dude!!!!.
Is that better than the sun or is it just a good battery and all new earths and clean connections??
All dash lamps present and correct, need a full set of new fuses, and a load of new lamps for the fuel sender and dash lights also. Currently running on my original VW beetle brass fuses!!
Rear and Brake, Main & Full, Parking bulbs are blown, interior, dash, flashers front, side and rear all bright and working. So i finally late on Saturday night after hours of electrical systems madness (ESM Syndrome) I decided that the temptation to connect some fuel lines up and prime the engine was too big a lure. So I had to strip down the starter, it was full of a messy clumpy shit (got to be old oil, looked like disintegrated rubber?) everywhere all over the commutator, got it all cleaned, and its sort of working but its sticky as shit.
So with some fuel lines and fuel, a quick wiggle of HT leads and a little sand paper to the points HAHA......................shit loads of thick oil burn out of the barrels and she splutters to life, after she stalled I realised that i had smeared the camera lens with grub and reattempted to record this start up but the starter motor required the old hammer whack to come back to life. A reconditioned starter is required, as its interfering with the electrical supply.
