I follow some of the work that goes on with EV conversions for air-cooleds. Just now I was shocked to look at my YouTube feeds and see a 79 Mars Red littermate of Murbella’s being converted over at the EV4U Custom Conversions channel. The ROI on such a thing, given the actually costs of conversion…
Category: General
Murbella – Day 25 – Some other cleaning done.
It was truly a full day of multi-tasking in the garage. With all of the major stuff I got done, I also did quite a bit of small stuff. I needed to deal with the residual oil in the push rod tubs into one of my new shallow metal soaking pans they went followed by…
Transaxle Dilemma
I’m still not having much luck in finding someone in Ohio (or at least sane driving distance from central Ohio) who can repair or perform an entire rebuild of Murbella’s transaxle. Now her 2nd gear synchro has been bad since I bought her and she occasionally pops out of gear or generally is difficult to…
Biding my time while the Jetta GLI gets rebuilt
So while I am not confined to work-at-home due to the COVID19 virus quarantine in our state, and even though all of the parts I ordered finally arrived to allow me to being the work on Murbella, my son changed his mind on his blown up Jetta GLI and has decided to rebuild that engine….
Plymouth In Violet / Dodge Plum Crazy
So I’m watching last night’s episode of Graveyard Carz (Season 11, Episode 10, Just The Way You Are) in which they are restoring a 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda Convertible and the car’s color really stood out to me. Now they’ve had a lot of Mopar cars on there done in the Plum Crazy color and I’ve…
AS41 Build – New Stock Muffler and Tail Pipes
So in addition to the new engine not really starting, I’m having severe issues with leaks from the pre-heat tubes and risers. The gaskets are just not dealing with it and unfortunately, the manifold’s pre-heater pipes really need some metal work due to how aged they are. Buying a new intake at this stage is…
New Plans – October 2019 to the Future
So there I am, having spent the last few days still under the feeling like I had to build an engine for Yellow to sell him as a fully functional car and yet he was being purchased as a rolling project! I started going down the path of engine bearings and all kinds of other…
AE Engine – Engine Top Tear-Down 7
And the case was cracked open! All kinds of surprises inside, at least in terms of what’s there. I already knew the crank is probably not stock given the fact is is 8-dowel drilled. I’m thinking it might be an original that was rebuilt and modded given the VW logo on it. Need to research…
AE Engine – Engine Top Tear-Down 3
So today was all about beating the hell out of that last nut that would not come off the exhaust stud. And beat I did! Multiple sessions of heat and penetrating oil didn’t make a difference so I took to beating it with a hammer and chisel. I slowly made some headway and changing different…
Central Ohio Vintage Volkswagen Club – Volksfest 29 –
I had not planned to attend but the weather was nice, and my son told me he was going to help a friend sell stuff at the swap meet so I headed out Volksfest 29. It was about as good of a show as one can get for central Ohio. It has been held at…