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Category: Restoration

Murbella – Day 39 – Unhappy Fan Shroud

Posted on 2020-06-11

So I can’t say my first 2 paint passes came out very well on the fan shroud. Hell. A couple of other pieces either. I ran out of the first can of the satin black so I went to one of the new cans I bought the other day and it was with this can…

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1979 VW Beetle - Restoration - Oil Cooler

Murbella – Day 39 – Oil cooler clean-up and out!

Posted on 2020-06-11

I have typically reused oil coolers. None of the engines I’ve disassembled have had had disastrously bad coolers. Most have some internal fin damage and Murbella was no exception. Honestly, I don’t know how this kind of damage happens to an oil cooler inside of the housing. Outside, yes. Inside? Huh? Now I started this…

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1979 VW Beetle - Restoration

Murbella – Day 39 – New Throttle Body Seals

Posted on 2020-06-11

The Harwal oil seals arrived the other day so I test fit them into the throttle body. These are the same seals that the guy on The Samba used on his bus throttle body. Now they aren’t perfect fits as they are not a 1:1 replacement part. However, I think they’ll do at keeping the…

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1979 VW Beetle - Restoration

Murbella – Day 39 – Some detail painting

Posted on 2020-06-11

So the FI system has 2 fuel injectors per intake manifold. They are surrounded by a dual-ring holder, which them mounts to the intake manifold itself. The injectors have a large O-ring seal that really just locks them in place against the dual holder and then the small o-ring seal that seats them into their…

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1979 VW Beetle - Restoration

Murbella – Day 39 – More tin painting. Other painting.

Posted on 2020-06-11

The tin cleaning and painting continued today. Some of the ones already done had drips and areas I was not happy with so I sanded them down and recoated them. Finally got around to more sanding and cleanup of the fan shrould. It took several acetone baths for it to really feel clean. While I…

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1979 VW Beetle - Restoration

Murbella – Day 39 – Cleaning up more parts.

Posted on 2020-06-11

Today was the first time I used the new ultrasonic cleaner and it did quite a nice job on the small parts, nuts, bolts, and washers I used it for. It did quite an admirable job, especially on some of the chrome and aluminum pieces. It removed a lot of funk from the injector holders…

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1979 VW Beetle - Restoration

Murbella – Day 38 – More tin painting.

Posted on 2020-06-09

I kept chugging along with the tin work today. Some of it good. Some of it crappy when I sprayed too much and ended up with drips. As always, I think I do a good solid job of cleaning and acetone washing everything as final prep and I appear to miss a spot or two…

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Murbella – Day 38 – Tin and intake manifold repainting.

Posted on 2020-06-09

So I acetone washed up more of the tins that I had previous sanded. I washed a few others again and then also did the acetone final wash down and all were left in the sun to evaporate. The 2 intake manifolds I bought were scrubbed up and I tried to get them as clean…

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Custom Gasket Making

Murbella – Day 36 – First attempt at a gasket

Posted on 2020-06-072020-06-07

I decided to try making my first custom gasket today. I learned that I need for sharper tools to do this. I need to make three gaskets (above) that are used to either seal the 2 plenum halves (right), seal the throttle body to the plenum (top left) or the oil filler to the plenum…

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Sorting

Murbella – Day 36 – Parts cleaning and sorting

Posted on 2020-06-07

So I spent the day multi-tasking after I went and got more degreaser detergent. The transaxle was scrubbed one final time. I was tempted to take it to the car wash and hot water power wash it but I figured this was good enough. It is at least clean enough to put in my car….

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