While trying to jump start the Buick Encore project car yesterday, I realized I had put off dealing with daily driver Subaru issues. There’s quite a bit of known repairs on the horizon that I’m waiting on parts on, so I may as well add some other minor repair/clean up issues involving the battery that…
Rearranging The Driveway
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…
What is it about them?
What is it about Super Beetles that just appeals to me more than any standard Beetle could? I mean, was it that I spent my formative years from 1974-1978 being lugged around in a Brilliant Orange 1974 Super Sedan so that no doubt inclined me to Supers more than Standards. My earliest memories of a…
That was a surprise!
So I stumbled on a compilation video posted on the YouTube channel The Wheel Network yesterday. It is a bit of a mix of factory footage of Type 1 assembly at the Emden, Germany factory from 1974-1978, some of the final era of Type 1 production at the Puebla, Mexico plant from 2003, and then…
Things to do this week…
So my plans for vacation changed yesterday and I’m not heading out of town as expected. So, I think I’m going to try to use some of my 10 days off to get the garage cleaned out, my tools and parts sorted, etc. Of course, that no doubt will leave me in anger as my…
An EFI engine to make me weep.
PowerhouseVW posted this test run of a new engine build the other day and I’ve been blown away at this. A lot of my research last year was about wanting to eventually have modern FI on my cars. I’ll continue restoring and working on Murbella’s L-Jetronic system and try and get her new engine running…
The Garage of Love 2.0
I’ve been giving some thought to when I put a video together to actually spend some quality time editing it and so for for posting. I’ve only really ever used YouTube to host unlisted basic vids so they’d take the bandwidth hit instead of my hosting fees. My content, when I’ve recorded anything really, was…
Diagnosing the Subaru Forester
On the non-Beetle front, my daily driver, the 2013 Subaru Forester X Limited of Love™ needs some up drivetrain and steering work. My live-in personal ASE Certified (aka my son) helped me confirm some issues and I now have plan for the daily. The front passenger axle’s outer CV joint has definitely gone wonky but…
Soon. I really hope.
I will try to get back to working on the cars sometime in early May. I’ve got my COVID vaccines out of the way, and that has gotten me over some of the depression I’ve been carrying since March 2020. Hopefully, I’ll be back to the gym for a bit in the mornings and then…
Went ahead and renewed my plates.
Not knowing if I’ll have either Murbella or Żuczek fully running again this year, I had thought about letting their registration slip in 2021. While not overly expensive, the yearly fee they charge for personalized plates in Ohio is really an annoyance. I mean, I can understand the first year, but it isn’t exactly like…