Category: Restoration
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Where Is Spring?
Itching to do a little work on the Beetle, but winter still has a terrible hold on us. Just too cold to be working outside or even in the Beetle Cave. Added to the laundry list of things I want to change out on the Beetle, some to make it safe. It has the original…
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Some Smalls Arriving
Ordered a few smalls from various vendors, this one arrived today. A new e-brake cover. Ordered from chircoestore.com. Impressed with the quality, but not even going to try to install it until is a nice warm day!
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Last Of The Tins
The industrial shields arrived today for AwesomePowdercoating. Hopefully the weather will be nice enough to work in the garage and put the remaining tins on the engine.
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New Sled Tins
Got the new sled tins in from Chircoestore.com today. Props to Joe at Chrico! I ordered these off of Ebay on morning and later that night, I realized that I had ordered chrome tins instead of black. Dropped Joe an email and explained what happened and he replaced them before they were shipped out. Exactly…
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99.9% Done
I guess it’s safe to say that the engine is about 99.9% complete now. I need to finish the carb rebuild, add the sled tins and hose from the breather to the oil filler and that’ll be that. Three and a half months of cold weekend nights in the garage, watching Breaking Bad (for the…