I have been having a problem with a tire on my bug going flat. I bought some of the liquid that you squirt into the tire, inflate and then drive
5 to 10 miles to let it seal. Well, opportunity was shown to my kids and they crawled in and we went driving in the pasture. There is about 10 acres and no trees so we rode for a long time. Doing circles and spin outs and such. The kids loved every minute, with many screams of "Do It AGAIN!!!" It was great fun. We left the pasture after about 20 minutes of riding and came back into the yard and the kids wanted to circle the house a few times. OK, off we go. On the last round, I had stomped the gas to give us a good launch across the driveway, and as we start to really accelerate, a strange noise appears from the rear. It almost sounded like I had blown one of the J-pipes off. I come out of the throttle and the noise is continuing to increase in volume. I am going behind the house by this time and the noise is still rising and is now very very loud inside the bug. The kids are getting worried as to what is happening and are rattling questions above the roar! I come back to the driveway, park, shut the engine off and get out. As I round the rear of the bug, something looks different, something is missing. My quiet pak is gone!!! I drop down to look to see if I lost the headers and find that the headers are there, but the muffler has broken the whole flange off the headers and the rest of the exhaust is fine, all intacked. I get up and look for the muffler and it is about 20 feet away laying in the yard. Laughter over comes me as this to me is pretty funny. I had thought to my self as we were ripping up the pasture as to why I had wanted to go into the pasture instead of just driving the roads like I started to. Things work kind of strange sometimes as to why we make the choices we make.I am getting off lucky, I suppose, I should be able to weld this back together and all should be fine. I will be adding a bolt to the muffler this time to bolt it to the headers as it was designed to be anyway. The bolt holes never lined up since new and I never tried to fix it. I would expect things to hold together longer than 9 years anyway....LOL.
Oh and since you asked, the tire still goes flat.......I think it is leaking around the rim. The tires had some ruff spots on the lip of the tires and I think this one is going to need some more work....bummer.
Drive and enjoy!!!!