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…
Category: General
AH Engine – Day 2 – The Synching
So I tried the aftermarket distributor gear and it does not fit. I think it needs to be honed down to even attempt to move smoothly so I decided to go with the AH engine’s original gear, washers, and spring which all went in fine and without a problem. I used the basic EMPI 009…
Test Post Again Wed 4/2
Test Post Again Wed 4/2
The VW Super Beetle Handbook
One of my favorite books in my library is The Volkswagen Super Beetle Handbook published by HP Books. In most auto books and literature, the Super Beetle at most gets a few pages devoted to it and mostly what feels like an afterthought on the end of Beetles in the US market. That’s partly why…
2019’s High Level Plan
So I know what I want to do on the cars for 2019, and I know some of the general order of things that happen. I mean, I’m a logistics guy and a project manager so I often do this day in and day out at work and it is almost impossibly not to apply…
The general plans for 2019 haven’t changed much!
I’m rather shocked. Since my original planning sessions last year I haven’t altered things too much for what I’d like to do in 2019. The engines need to be the primary early focus of the year, with the immediate goal of getting Żuczek B. and Curious (Yellow) running, stopping, and generally driving. That includes…
Getting the AE engine working and swapped.
There are a lot of incomplete sub-tasks of the various ongoing projects at the moment. Ohio winter has made me not want to work on anything really. I’ve got the AH engine rebuild going on, the AR engine tear-down and prep, the tear down of all that last minute 1302/1303 suspension stuff, as well as…
Guess what? More snow!
Woke up to about 5″ of snow everywhere. However the temps were in the low 20s (°F) today. Believe me… I don’t think any of expected to wake up to this today. What’s so bad crazy is that Sunday we are supposed to be over 52°F. That will literally be a 50° difference in less…
Way in the past before he was Żuczek Brzęczyszczykiewicz.
It is still rather shocking for me to think that Żuczek rolled off the assembly line in Germany looking like the above pic. I mean… literally the above pic. Marina Blue. Sun Roof. Stock wheels. Unfortunately, unlike the infographic, he was born an autostick and not the manual he is now.
Zimno!!!
So we didn’t get the SNOWPOCALYPSE that they’ve been predicting the past few days. That said, we simultaneously had a full day of rain and then temps dropped into freezing and then it snowed. That sucks the balls. We are currently at 9°F (-12°C) with and it is supposed to hit -10°F (-22°C) tonight. What is…