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…
Category: Project – 2020 Murbella
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…
Murbella – Day 30 – Oil Filter Placement
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…
Murbella – Day 30 – Prepping the transaxle for removal
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…
Murbella – Day 30 – Cleaning, Painting, More…
So while I had intended to drop her top so I could easily have access to undoing the shifting rod from the transmission as well as using her interior for storage space, I ran into a slight problem that I did not foresee. With her up on stands, there’s absolutely no way to clear the…
Murbella – AJ Engine – To blueprint? If so, how much?
If you stumble across this site, you always need to consider the fact that I am a self-taught VW air-cooled mechanic with no formal training in anything auto-related either classic or modern. Everything I do related to my cars is because of personal choice, and often, when it comes to documentation and methodology, something that…
Murbella – Day 29 – Restored Exhaust Components
So I ran out and picked up the blasted and then ceramic-coated exhaust components and damn if they don’t look amazing! Restoring the original solid 1979 muffler instead of swapping on that cheap ass aftermarket one was one of the best things I could have done. I love all the little parts that say West…