So I made an offer on some used FI engine parts on The Samba and it was accepted. It was more than reasonable given some are electronic component parts of questionable functionality. There was another person on FB Marketplace that would not accept a similar offer, and he didn’t even know what the exact parts…
Restoration: Manual Tin Restoration
There are many ways to restore your cooling tins as you can probably imagine. Let’s face it. When it comes down to it they are just pieces of metal that get painted. Ask yourself what you want in a finished product. Perfect show quality restoration? Serviceable and clean? It is really all up to what…
Murbella – Day 32 – More tin painting. KBS Topcoat!
So I applied the KBS BlackTop Chassis Paint over some of the rust shield. The rust shield product is not UV-resistant, so it needs another coat of this. Yeah. I know. The parts are under the car. But I also hoped to smooth out some of my shoddy brush work. I continued working on some…
Murbella – Day 32 – My injectors arrived back!
I am rather out of words and what my cleaned and restored fuel injectors look like. Remember these pics from a few weeks back? The package I just opened is like magic happened. Other than some wear on the plastic electronic areas, the injectors look practically brand new! And that Cold Start Valve…
Murbella – Day 32 – KBS (The day after)
I thought it would be wise to see how the parts all turned out so I pulled them out into the sun. Let’s just say… an amateur did them and it really really looks like it. There is quite a lot of drip lines since these had to hang. For some reason, there seems to…
Murbella – Day 32 – Project scope changes.
So as with any classic automotive project, you can plan everything out months in advance, but as disassembly occurs, you need to be able to move with the flow, and if necessary deal with situations that may change, especially as you discover problems and the like. For my 2020 Murbella Projects, the suspension and brake…
Murbella – Day 31 – KBS 2nd coat. Start on a trailing arm.
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…
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…
AJ #2 Case – I took off what I could.
I managed to take off the alternator stand studs, but the more I tried to remove some of the studs, the more I just started sweating up a storm. I did not wish to bring down any anger from the käfer god Zündfolge so I decided to call it quits. The oil drain plate studs…
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…