Category: The Garage of Love™

I need to figure out how to cleanly (and most importantly easily) move my blog from the zuczek1302.com to my garageoflove.com domain this week.   There was a time in my life when such things would have been cake for me to do.   This time in my life is not one of them.

Well. Spring prep to work on the cars has started. The goal of the next few weeks will ultimately be to get Murbella’s rear suspension installed and her new bearings and hubs in so I can get her on wheels and back as a roller. To that end, the driveway of dead vehicles needed to…

Now I have very little space to work. I have a 90+ year old garage that barely fits 2 small cars. I’ve managed to make it work the past 2 years but we have never really been able to park 2 cars consistently, even in the winter months. When I started working on the Beetles,…

So I’m always planning ahead. I tend to think about the car stuff in terms of which systems need general maintenance or likely some repairs. Knowing your cars are 41 years old and 48 years old, and knowing how people tend to not take care of certain auto systems in a regular matter makes this…

So the kid got the 2nd Jetta engine installed and it was running. However, now it appears to have 2 dead cylinders or something related to the head gasket. It wasn’t like he did any real proper cleaning of that short block so who knows if it is related to his negligence or that he…

So way back in October I cleaned up the garage for the winter and made enough space to work if the weather ended up being mild. Below freezing temps is rather difficult out there since it is old and non-insulated, but I figured there’d be a few days over the coming months to work on…

So my so-called  Garage of Love™ is now mostly ready for winter. During the summer, I more or less like to have both bays free to move around and make a general mess. I tend to work many days on something, then reset all my tools again and clean up, then start over. Yeah. Sometimes…

While I was letting the case dry, I decided to rearrange how I am storing some types of parts. I had been sorting things for years by the project, or the specific car they are intended for, but I realized that isn’t really very optimal for the way I’ve been working. It has resulted in…

There so much to do in cleaning up the disaster that is the current state of The Garage of Love™.