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1979 VW Beetle - Front Transaxle Mount

Murbella – Day 30 – Prepping the transaxle for removal

Posted on 2020-05-302020-05-30

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…

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Murbella – Day 30 – Cleaning, Painting, More…

Posted on 2020-05-302020-05-30

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…

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1979 VW Beetle - FI AJ Code Engine Parts

Murbella – Day 23 – Short Block Disassembly

Posted on 2020-05-23

Given everything I encountered with taking the pistons and cylinders off, it was clear that I need to address the engine fully, and nut just clean it up and hope that new pistons, new cylinders, and new or rebuilt heads would give it the longevity it needs. So I cracked the case. Compared to the…

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1979 VW Beetle - Parts ready to go to blasting

Murbella – Day 16 – Suspension off to soda blasting!

Posted on 2020-05-10

So all of the rear suspension parts are as ready as they will be for blasting. After doing some research and talking to my son I decided to tape off most of the surfaces for where the outer wheel bearing and the inner grease seal sit on both arms. From the pic above, you can…

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Murbella – Day 14 – More arts cleaning and sanding

Posted on 2020-04-28

I took an hour break from working to go clean some more parts and try to get some sanding done before dusk hits. I try not to make too much noise with power tools before 10am or really after 6pm as a courtesy to my neighbors. Spring Plate Covers I continued sanding up and roughing…

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1979 VW Beetle - Passenger Side - Wheel and Stub Axle

Murbella – Day 12 – Passenger Side Stub Axle and Bearings Removed

Posted on 2020-04-25

I took advantage of an extremely pleasant morning and afternoon to start disassembling the passenger side suspension and remaining bits of the drivetrain in the trailing arm. Most parts have the same random spraying of undercoating, and this time the spring plate covers and spring plates torsion bar areas were extremely bad and far worse…

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1979 VW Beetle - Sawing the spacer off

Murbella – Day 10 – Spacer finally removed!!!

Posted on 2020-04-222020-04-22

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…

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1979 VW Beetle - Spacer Stuck on Stub Axle

Murbella – Day 8 – Stub axle spacer drama continued!

Posted on 2020-04-18

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…

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1979 VW Beetle - Driver Side - Stub Axle Debris

Murbella – Day 7 – Stub Axle spacer drama!

Posted on 2020-04-15

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…

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1979 VW Beetle - Driver Side - Bearing Disassembly

Murbella – Day 5 – Stub Axle Removal and Bearing Housing Disassembly

Posted on 2020-04-12

So what it really comes down to is my fear of hitting things too hard to avoid any possibility of damage. I couldn’t remove the stub axle yesterday since I was being too kind to it. Today was a different matter. I used the rubber end of a hammer to safeguard the end and with…

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