A few months ago, I found what I was looking for. A forum in Portuguese! It's a great forum with nice people. You can see a lot of pictures of our aircooled VW. Standard and super beetles, splits, type
2 barndoors buggy's.
Sorry - don't speak Portuguese, Jo=E3o. I do speak French and dabble in Spanish a little so was able to get what people were saying (words are similar).
Looks like a very cool site. Particularly like the "Restauro" forum. Thanks!
Have you done more work on your beetle? How are the things going on? I also like the projectos forum. I'm able to help some people, because I learn a lot on this group on the last years and that's great.
Hey Jo=E3o Well, my frame is done. I've replaced part of the frame head and the floors - it also doesn't look like it has been stored under the Titanic any more :)
I've moved on to the body and started carefully cutting out one the heater channel. I intend to weld my two channels and both rear and front cross brace together while bolted to the pan. Then I'll weld that whole assembly to the body. Hopefully it will all line up after all that. I am getting pretty good at welding now - it took a bit before I was totally happy with the work but I really like doing it.
The bug rustoration has come to a temporary halt on orders of my commander and chief (my wife): Over the last week or so and for the next couple of weeks I'm working on a home project. My back porch to my back door was in really bad shape so I ripped it out and am now in the process of rebuilding a new one. The old porch was built in 1915 so it was due replacement. The new porch will be a small insulated room with tile floors, built in bench with storage, etc. In the US we refer to an area like this as a 'mud room', something where you can take messy shoes off so you don't track dirt through the house. So I am wearing my construction hat for a bit.
I'm only changing the oil and checking the valves gap. Not a big deal! I'm looking for a westfalia not a T2 but a T4 to buy. Next year I want to travel around Europe withy my family.
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