I took last Friday, and Monday through Wednesday off this week, to try to g et something done on my 72 1200 "standard" beetle. Originallu I was having Friday and Monday only....
On Friday I managed to remove the last guard and epoxy enamel the mating su rfaces, and the area in behind the running board. The last bits of the body that needed doing! I still have to polish over some of my almost colour ma tched touch ups, but that's nothing major.
Replaced the rear axle seals and rear brakes on Sunday.
Monday... went to town and got some decent axle seals and replaced them and cleaned all the fresh oil off the new brakes! Grrrr! Stupid seals - they w ere Elring (supposedly quality) but they could be pushed out with my finger s!
Also installed all new tie rod ends, and pulled the engine.
Lucky I get craploads of leave!
Tuesday, I replaced the engine bay seals with the correct Z shape one - the normal V shaped one doesn't even touch the tinware. I removed the nasty Bu gpack exhaust, ready for a stock fweemer with stainless tailpipes 8)
I then fitted my rebuilt 34PICT-3 and followed the weird tuning procedure f or it, finished installing the cooling flaps and thermostat (plus the Hoove r bit!), fitted the correct DVDA distibutor which I've swapped my electroni c ignition module into with new cap and rotor, fitted my new Bosch HT leads , Then put the engine back in.
ALthough I got all this stuff done, I'm glad I'm not a VW mechanic! Talk ab out Drama!
On Wednesday, the Guy at the hydraulic shop thought he knew better than me/ my mate and sold me the wrong size hoses for the remote oil filter. Went ba ck and changed them after my mate that built the engine said "NO WAY!". Got the right ones, then decided to move the filter location, so had to go bac k to get another length of hose! Grrr.
Sprayed oil over the engine bay after leaving the breather pipe off after f illing the oil Grrr
One oil fitting leaked. Grrr
New rotor needed trimming down to clear the electronic ignition. Grrr
Pulley rubs on tinware as oil pump sticks out just a touch too far. Grrr
fan was rubbing on fan shroud - sorted with a bit of tweaking. small Grrr
lowered it down off the hoist... forgot to attach throttle cable! back up a nd sort that out. Grrr
Still - got it all sorted and went for a drive this afternoon. Just a few l ittle things to do before the WOF inspectionn check 8)
Just have to fit running boards and rear bumper! There can't be too much dr ama involved with that!