Got lots done, but lots of drama!

something done on my 72 1200 "standard" beetle. Originallu I was having Friday and Monday only....

surfaces, 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 matched touch ups, but that's nothing major.

cleaned all the fresh oil off the new brakes! Grrrr! Stupid seals - they were Elring (supposedly quality) but they could be pushed out with my fingers!

normal V shaped one doesn't even touch the tinware. I removed the nasty Bugpack exhaust, ready for a stock fweemer with stainless tailpipes 8)

it, finished installing the cooling flaps and thermostat (plus the Hoover bit!), fitted the correct DVDA distibutor which I've swapped my electronic ignition module into with new cap and rotor, fitted my new Bosch HT leads, Then put the engine back in.

mate and sold me the wrong size hoses for the remote oil filter. Went back 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 back to get another length of hose! Grrr.

filling the oil Grrr

sort that out. Grrr

little things to do before the WOF inspectionn check 8)

involved with that!

LOL sounds like a standard aircooled day..... :)

Jan

They were still making 1200,s in 1972? In Australia I seem to recall they stopped around ,66. My first Beetle was the 1300 and it was a 66, not sure the 1200 was even an option.. Nearly killed myself the first day I owned it after moving from a grossly understeering series of BMC ( Austin, Morris) cars. Raised the heart rate somewhat!!. Elring did use to be good quality. They havn,t moved their manufacturing to somewhere in Asia have they? John

LOL sounds like a standard aircooled day..... :)

Jan

Haha! BMC... didn't each car they made increase the debt!

Dunno if Elring have moved... maybe they were just duds. I fitted Febi swin g axle boots too, one one thicker and stiffer than the other too! Weird!

1200 were made for MANY years. Certainly at least well into the 70's. It ha s no flow through ventilation, the old style blade bumpers (but no override rs - JUST the blade!), no fan - just the old style demister vents and foot vents, small headliner (doesn't cover the pillars or sides of the roof - or where the SINGLE sun visor is mounted - it's all painted steel), rubber ma ts, 1 speed wipers, just a horn button, no ring or "tabs", just a carboard liner in the "dogbox", no chrome on the running boards or in the window rub bers, etc etc etc :-)

It does a bit..... Still - everything is genarlly easy to get to! 20 minute s to get the engine out isn't bad :-)

Allan.

Oh yeah, it's German assembled! They were very expensive here is New Zealand by then - it was pretty well over for VW for a number of years.

Allan.

Oh yeah, it's German assembled! They were very expensive here is New Zealand by then - it was pretty well over for VW for a number of years.

Allan.

Haha - sounds like a great car!

My neighbour has 2 Austin Healey 3000's, and MG convertible and a Rover RV8. They are all immaculate, and he makes jokes all the time about them being old piles of English crap :-)

My Beetle also developed a fuel leak from the hard line in the engine bay - replace with 350 PSI hose now :-D Maybe it's cursed or something!

axle boots too, one one thicker and stiffer than the other too! Weird!

no flow through ventilation, the old style blade bumpers (but no overriders - JUST the blade!), no fan - just the old style demister vents and foot vents, small headliner (doesn't cover the pillars or sides of the roof - or where the SINGLE sun visor is mounted - it's all painted steel), rubber mats, 1 speed wipers, just a horn button, no ring or "tabs", just a carboard liner in the "dogbox", no chrome on the running boards or in the window rubbers, etc etc etc :-)

to get the engine out isn't bad :-)

BTW I used to do regular maintenance on a mexican built 1988 1200 std beetle back in Finland. So yea they made them forever.

1988 they imported the last 14-or so aircooled VW beetles to Finland. They were a special limited set, for some reason. Before that they had not imported any since 1975.

Sweet! I'd like a really late one, just for bragging rights! Mine does actually have a 1600 TP in it, but everything else is pretty stock, or close to it. I just need the correct rear bumper and a couple of little bits.

Sounds about right:) If anything can go wrong, it will. If nothing can go wrong, it _definitely- will. When it seems the worst is over, it isn't.

Still, of all the possible cars one could choose from, what be more likely to get you through a trip from South Africa to the tib of Siberia?

I love VWs. I suspect we all do.

Great story Allan.

Chris

AllanW wrote:

Haha! - Story of my life!

I still haven't got it road legal yet - I have holes in the rear inner 1/4s from access holes for the previous Dellorto 44's. I want to cover them up and seal it well and truely before using it in the wet.

One day - These things take time!