The parts continue to arrive from all of the vendors. Sparx Werks The restored Bosch 043 905 205H Distributor arrived rom Sparx Werks and it is a thing of beauty. William Fowler does a service to the classic VW community here! Compared to the old ones I have, I’m just blown away at how new…
Category: Projects
Murbella – Day 32 – More tin painting. KBS Topcoat!
So I applied the KBS BlackTop Chassis Paint over some of the rust shield. The rust shield product is not UV-resistant, so it needs another coat of this. Yeah. I know. The parts are under the car. But I also hoped to smooth out some of my shoddy brush work. I continued working on some…
Murbella – Day 32 – My injectors arrived back!
I am rather out of words and what my cleaned and restored fuel injectors look like. Remember these pics from a few weeks back? The package I just opened is like magic happened. Other than some wear on the plastic electronic areas, the injectors look practically brand new! And that Cold Start Valve…
Murbella – Day 32 – KBS (The day after)
I thought it would be wise to see how the parts all turned out so I pulled them out into the sun. Let’s just say… an amateur did them and it really really looks like it. There is quite a lot of drip lines since these had to hang. For some reason, there seems to…
Murbella – Day 32 – Project scope changes.
So as with any classic automotive project, you can plan everything out months in advance, but as disassembly occurs, you need to be able to move with the flow, and if necessary deal with situations that may change, especially as you discover problems and the like. For my 2020 Murbella Projects, the suspension and brake…
Murbella – Day 31 – KBS 2nd coat. Start on a trailing arm.
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…
Murbella – Day 31 – Tin work continues.
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…
Murbella – Day 31 – KBS Rust Seal first coat!
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…
Murbella – Day 31 – AJ Engine Rebuild Starts
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…
Murbella – Day 30 – My future 205H Distributor
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…