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Month: May 2020

1979 VW Beetle - Restoration

Murbella – Day 31 – KBS 2nd coat. Start on a trailing arm.

Posted on 2020-05-312020-05-31

I went with the instructions time frame and put a 2nd coat on the smaller pieces I had done earlier in the day. I taped up the shafts of the axles to clean a clean line. Theoretically, everything that remains bare metal shaft is in the wheel bearing housing and should not be exposed to…

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1979 VW Beetle - Restoration

Murbella – Day 31 – Tin work continues.

Posted on 2020-05-31

Work continued today on all of the engine tin. I sat with the orbital sander, trying to roughen up flat areas as well as working out trying to get as much surface corrosion reduced to as minimal as possible. I then sat there hand sanding, trying to get at the areas I cannot easily get…

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AJ #2 Death

AJ #2 Case – I took off what I could.

Posted on 2020-05-31

I managed to take off the alternator stand studs, but the more I tried to remove some of the studs, the more I just started sweating up a storm. I did not wish to bring down any anger from the käfer god Zündfolge so I decided to call it quits. The oil drain plate studs…

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1979 VW Beetle - Restoration

Murbella – Day 31 – KBS Rust Seal first coat!

Posted on 2020-05-31

Now the trailing arms will be far more difficult to paint by brush given their size and unwieldiness. I fully expect those to take a total of 5 days to get the 2 coats of Rust Seal on and then the KPS top coats on. However, the smaller pieces need to get done and stored…

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1979 AJ Engine Rebuild

Murbella – Day 31 – AJ Engine Rebuild Starts

Posted on 2020-05-312020-06-03

So I suppose I can officially consider the first day of the engine rebuild since I always mark Day 1 with the post last cleaning plugging of the case! (We’ll just pretended everything to this day was Day 0!) AJ Engine Rebuild, Day 1 The case was cleaned one final time with some soapy water…

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Murbella – Day 30 – My future 205H Distributor

Posted on 2020-05-302020-05-30

So Bill from Spark Werks already has shipped out my new restored 205H distributor and it’ll be here in a few days. He supplied me with some maintenance instructions, that quite frankly I don’t think I ever realized to do, but of course, that’s why so many used distributors look like shit. Now what he…

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1979 VW Beetle - Rear Bumper Mount

Murbella – Day 30 – Oil Filter Placement

Posted on 2020-05-30

If this becomes too difficult to do, given my fabrication limitations, I’ll just go with the stock oil pump and skip full filtering for now. Buried under that oh so lovely undercoating is the shock bumper mount and bolts. I need to figure out a way to mod a mounting plate that is made for…

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1979 VW Beetle - Front Transaxle Mount

Murbella – Day 30 – Prepping the transaxle for removal

Posted on 2020-05-302020-05-30

I had plans to drop the transaxle today and start loosening up the bolts. I got her shift coupler detached.  I had upgraded to urethane bushings for this back in 2017 when I replaced her shifter bushing It is all still very tight. (I remember how sloppy she was before this maintenance!) Now the drawing…

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Tearing Down AJ Engine #2

In which I discover the horrible truth about AJ Case #2

Posted on 2020-05-30

Back in November 2018, I purchased a bunch of used 1303 struts and spindles and assorted other parts form a guy about an hour south of here. When I was going through all of his stuff, I noticed he had an engine sitting to the side that was an AJ FI case. It had most…

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1979 VW Beetle - Tin second cleaning

Murbella – Day 30 – Tin and EGR Work

Posted on 2020-05-30

I started the second cleaning pass for the engine tins, this time my soapy-water pass. I usually degrease first with solvent, then wash with soapy water and dry, then sand and detail work, then wash and clean again, then prime. Yeah, media blasting would save me a lot of man hours in this. Cylinder Tin…

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