Month: April 2018

  • Odds and Ends

    Taking care of some odds and ends this evening. Had to raise Mabel a couple of inches in the front to keep her from scraping and leaving sparks down the highway. I’ve got her as high as I can with my current setup, hopefully no more scraping the ruts in the road. I also replaced…

  • New Exhaust Installation Part V

    Finished the intake seal and new muffler install today. Took a lot longer than anticipated, but taking my time and doing everything right, I can’t complain. Big change in the carb after a new accelerator pump and cleaning. Couldn’t be more happy with it. Took her for a long drive this evening and there’s such…

  • New Exhaust Installation Part IV

    Before I put on the new exhaust, I decided to replace the intake seals to the heads that I didn’t replace year before last when I installed the new intake. Just loosing the intake does not give me enough room to install the seals, so I start by removing the fuel pump, distributor cap, generator…

  • VW Badge LED Shadow Box

    Colby got me a VW LED hood badge that is meant to replace the front badge on new VW Beetles. You can pick these up at Amazon for around 20 dollars. We decided that it’d look really cool if we displayed it in a shadow box. Lenora picked up a shadow box at Hobby Lobby on…

  • New Exhaust Installation Part III

    Continued to prep for the new exhaust installation. Not a whole lot more we can do until the new exhaust arrives. Today, I decided to clean up the rear engine tins to make them look a bit better. I started by stripping the paint off the tins by using Dupli-Color paint stripper. I let them…