So I’m thinking of soaking some rags in solvent and wrapping them around the heavily undercoated parts of the chassis. There are some key areas I need clean and restored, or I should say I want clean and restored, prior to the installation of the rear sway bar. The torsion tubes on the chassis are…
Category: Project – 2020 Murbella
Murbella – Day 10 – Spacer finally removed!!!
I kept debating about the damn stub axle, knowing I could not use any garage heat to really get it hot enough to budge it any further. I decided to manually hacksaw it off since at least I could try and control the angle and not risk damaging the shaft itself. It took about 15…
Murbella – Day 10 – KBS stuff arrived / Undercoating update
So I was kind of shocked all of my KBS stuff arrived on the same day, even though some of it shipped from the manufacturer and not Summit Racing directly. But, I have everything I need to at least try these products out on the trailing arm, spring plate, and cover. I still may try…
Murbella – Day 9 – Metal parts cleaning and prep
So while my old parts cleaning plastic bin is large enough to hold the trailing arms, it is going to be prohibitively expensive to create a deep enough pool of solvent to soak the undercoating in to soften it up. I poured all of my solvent that I have in other cleaning bins and then…
Murbella – Day 8 – Stub axle spacer drama continued!
So that damned inner bearing spacer has been a major problem. I finally asked my son to get involved and while I applied continuous heat from the torch he managed to finally get a flathead in the gap and some progress was made in getting it moving away from the base. I had hoped to…
Going with KBG products for Murbella’s rear end!
I’ve been back and forth over Eastwood products versus other products in terms of what I wanted to use on Murbella’s rear chassis/suspension parts and I’ve decided I’m going with KBS Coatings’ products. From a TCO perspective, I think the costs of their products are in the ballpark where I need to be, and Summit…
Murbella – Day 7 – Stub Axle spacer drama!
So when I got the stub axle out of the bearing housing the other day the inner spacer came out with it. Now I don’t mean just out with it… i mean really out with it! The spacer will not budge at all. I’ve been soaking the stub axle for days in mineral spirits to…
Murbella – Day 7 – Let the parts cleaning commence!
The undercoating was always going to be removed from the suspension parts and rear chassis. Well, as much of it as I can remove! I decided to try my usual mineral spirits solvent parts cleaning methods to see what kind of impact soaking will do on whatever product was sprayed all over everything. I had…
Murbella – Day 7 – And a trailing arm shall be free!
I threw out a question to the VW Aircooled Tech Help Group I’m a part of on Facebook to get some input on the risks of introducing any damage to the pivot joint if I brought an impact into the situation. Since I’ve never seen a trailing arm off a vehicle, I just did not…