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1967 VW Variant.

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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    I spent most of the week clearing out my workshop to get more room. In the process I had to lift and manouvre a woodworking planer past 3 walls and around a 4 ton scissor lift. Major problem because the planer weighs in at over a ton.


    Its off to the scrappie unless I find someone to take it for a scrap value price. Its footprint is 8' x 2'6"

    Mechanically its perfect, but needs a motor and new switchgear.





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    How are things going with you Kadman? ( and no, I'm not looking at either the job or clock card's..) Hope that all is well with you?.

    Jim.



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    All good Jim, thanks for asking. Away from the workshop and type 3's, but off in another workshop giving tuition and help to another vw beetle owner who is feeling his way along on brakes and steering maintenance. he asked on a forum for help, so I offered. Also went off to kerry to collect engine tinware for my south african camper during the week.


    And then back to the workshop today on a final cleanup to work on my square back wing repair again. I had to move a pallet load of thermoplastic material Deusith. And now trying to find a home or use for it.........as that too is in the way..

    You are up to date now, so I will be back on the clock tomorrow all going well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Good, you needed a break anyway. The last few weeks were really "contrary" as far as the job was concerned. All awkward bits, lots of hours spent fabricating, and some days very little to show for it. Give my Best Regards to your Friend the Beetle owner. I was similarly employed over the weekend myself. I got a call from a friend of mine, who has an ever increasing collection of fine old cars, and the latest addition is an 1990 Nissan 300zx twin turbo Z32 model, 3.0 V6 engine. All things considered, its in pretty good nick, and mechanically, good also. But there's a couple of paint issues that he needs a hand with, So we will see how that goes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,131 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    1990 Nissan 300zx twin turbo Z32 model, 3.0 V6 engine

    Chape tax?? 😁

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    I'm not sure...its 33 years old, so I'd assume so. but I'm not sure, will have a look at what's on the windscreen when I'm back there. I think that there was some changes in the rules re. vintage classification recently.???



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,131 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Ah JM I'm just rattlin' your camchain as it were 😁 I hope you're keeping a good eye on your man's tae consumption. An increase might signify a difficult job on hands which requires great contemplation, or perhaps just slacking off...?

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    At this stage in the game, there's more than the cam chain rattling...... a couple of the shock absorbers are behaving unnaturally as well, ...😂

    As for Kadman, the Tae wouldn't bother me at all ( I'm a coffee man myself...by the mug, large economy size, full strong Serbian stuff, not for amateurs 😊) For sure there has been parts of the job that would have been multi-cups of Tae. More that might be considered healthy it was coffee !!! And he's not out of the woods yet, so the occasional break is fine. ( emphasis on occasional........😊😊😊



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Go on you pair of ner do wells.............and put the kettle on😁. There is nothing left on the squareback thats going to phase me now. I have gone all the way along the front and down the drivers side. Whats left is just a repetition of what I have already done.


    And i have already rebuilt the engine and brakes. At this stage I laugh in the face of danger🤣🤣



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Just as well... the opposite does not bear thinking about. Was a good idea to tackle the mechanicals first, now you have the incentive to finish it. Had it been the other way round...........



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,250 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Uh-oh... you didn't actually say "What could possibly go wrong?", did you? Don't you know what happens in films when someone says that?



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    I always tackle the mechanicals first as I know i have a driving roadworthy vehicle. No use in having a trailer queen that performs badly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Thats a good point all right. And you read very often about barn finds that were last driven (or most likely pushed) into the barn 20,30,40 years previous. But at least with VW mechanicals, you are pretty safe.



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Back on the resto trail. Unfortunately my workshop has been taken over by a squatter, who believes he can scatter his assortment of special effects tools all over my area for a short term letting. he is packing them for his next global trotting enterprise...back to film work in Canada.


    Which means my work environment has been reduced ten fold for a short term. So as i can only work in a small area, I chose to start cleaning up the metal tinware that I have managed to collect over the last 9 months. This involves cleaning the muck off them, and wire brushing the paint and rust on the big lathe. Its going to take a few days as there are approximately 30+ pieces.





  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    The metal is tinware for the cooling on a 1978 VW Kombi with a 2 litre Type 4 914 engine. Basically a porsche engine.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Considering the angles and bends and awkward corners, they cleaned up very well, didn't they?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Yes, the ducting. And it performs a very important task. Was a very ingenious system. Great design.



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Surprisingly enough yes they did. I used a 150mm wire brush on a 3 jaw chuck in my woodturning lathe. I have some smaller brushes too that will get into the small parts I cant reach. I would have been happy to have a cabinet sandblasting unit, but I dont have one. I tried to buy an advertised new unit on donedeal, but they wont actually have one until next year. I considered the large pot type portable unit, but I dont want sand all over creation



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Yes the sand does a great job, but by its very nature, if it gets into places where it should not be, it can wreak havoc.



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    One more done, and many more to go.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,870 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Saw a trike on TV the other day (US programme). Front and engine from a Honda Goldwing (1000cc 4-cyl boxer). Back was from a cut-up VW 'squareback'.

    The trike was crap, but the VW body looked to be in great nick.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Off tomorrow to work on a lads beetle to get him back on the road.


    Dont tell Jim....sssshhh...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire




  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    I have been slaving away on this chaps beetle with himself getting involved too. Progress is good. New soft lines and shoes as well as new wheel cylinders all fitted. And after numerous issues with the lack of brake after bleeding, I discovered a knackered internal bore and seals in the master cylinder.


    So new part has been ordered for next week hopefully. So in the meantime little progress on the squareback, but thats about to change tomorrow. In the meantime due to the lack of any up to fate variant pics, here is a pic of the historical vw vehicle banner I received from Paruzzi.com, a great source for rare type 3 parts that I use





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,131 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Didn't think you'd be one for the go-faster stripes and bass bins 😁

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    My God..... complete with the sporty wheels, the sunshade, the chrome "eyelashes" on the headlights (these were available for the Beetles too) the Spots,the bonnet and side panel stripes, and the boombox speakers under the rear window!!!



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Not to mention ac/dc disc in the player, he,he.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭MrCostington


    I thought you would go for a period correct cassette? Not the newfangled CD player :)

    Anyway, is the album a Bon or Brian one :)



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    I spent 3 years and loads of money trying to source a working 8 track player for the fasty. Period correct and I can get to listen to CCR non stop. But it wasn't going to happen. I gave up when I bought my 3rd non working player, despite getting all the usual promises that they are working perfectly, and my eagerness to get a working one, won over my common sense. After the 3 rd one I said no more.

    I have contacted many sellers who have one, but wont let me see it running, so its a paper weight to me. So my CCR will have to wait a while longer before it gets any airtime.



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    I have to put on my central heating hat today because I need to replace a coil operated contactor relay that switches on and off the pump. The constant on/off clicking has finally given up the ghost. Along with me bypassing the relay yesterday and going past the working pressure of the system and blowing off a domestic push fit waterline, and flooding the kitchen twice. And i am way too old, fat, and stiff to be laying down on the floor under a sink and reaching upwards with 2 damaged shoulders into inaccessible areas to swing spanners.


    Give me a rusty old vw any day.



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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭MrCostington


    Excellent :) But that new Brian guy shows promise, and is a petrol head too.

    Nevermind CCR, you need  ELP's Fanfare For The Common Man for when the variant is finished!

    Sent you a PM re the 8 tracks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    How's the brakes coming on???



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Just got word this morning the owner has received new master cylinder, clutch release bearing, low pressure reservoir feed hose's. So back to the brakes tuesday morning. I am off this morning to look at a VW Karmann convertible that is in a sorry state of repair. I will be taking a few pics and video to consider getting it or move it on to someone in the club. But it will be a resto that requires the same skilset that was on my 2 VW's.


    So it will be interesting to see.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Karmann Convertible? That would be a pretty rare bird indeed!! And if you are fitting a clutch release bearing, just go the whole hog, and fit the pressure plate and disc too. ? Waiting to see the pics of the Karmann.



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    New clutch is already fitted onto the engine by the guy that fitted new seals to the engine. Karmann conertible is a left hooker from California. Brought to Ireland many years ago, had a few owners, and the current owner has it lying idle for the past 10+ years outside which is a pity. From a distance it has suffered from the elements, and probably wont be a financially viable restoration due to cost of replacement parts and labour if getting someone to do it.

    I would only take it with a view of seeing it restored by someone, but thats gonna be hard to find a volunteer for it. He would need to have all the skills that were used on the vw's I have. And i dont know anybody as crazy as me for hardship . As for parts, its probably got a seized engine, but its 1600 so is worth something. I will keep you posted



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    But what a car it was!!! A real head turner, even now.

    Ferdinand Porche written all over it.🙂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    And in Black!!! (but with funny bumpers)



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Well, just got back. But couldn,t get into the car or front boot or engine bay, so a bit of a waste to be honest. Body is rough and will require far more tlc than its value as a good vw could be brought in from Sweden for a lot less money.

    But the engine interests me.



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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Hey Jim , its not that type Karmann, Ghia. Its the Karmann convertible beetle



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,131 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    When I got my first job in Dublin city centre in 1994, there was a young lady who parked nearby who drove a Karmann Ghia every day, white, I wonder what happened to the car... there was also a nice BRG MGB GT often parked near Connolly Station. I nearly got arrested one day when I was having a good gawp, somebody thought that wearing a leather jacket meant I was up to no good!

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire




  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Yep exactly like that one, but far,far rustier. I hhad a quick look at the outside, as she has the keys in Dublin that she will be bringing down over the christmas. Its bad, and I never got into the engine bay nor front boot. Realistically for me I have enough with the squareback and kombi, so not really interested in another big project.


    I did a quick tot up of the bigger parts, and it could go beyond 8k euro before any cutting is done. And there is a fully restored one in Antrim , jump in turn the key and drive away for 17k euro. Nuff said its a no brainer.



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Happy new year folks. I am going a bit off topic on this post. Its the 75th Emmy Awards this weekend, and we have the first Irish nominee for leading prosthetics make up artist for his work on the now famous television series " The Last Of Us "

    Its off topic, but he is my son, and it makes me proud to say that.




  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,786 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    That's amazing, taking after you in a particular style of fabrication you might say. Nothing like a proud Dad 😉



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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Nothing like a proud dad for sure to both of my sons and my daughter in law too.😍😎

    I believe its on live at 1 am sunday morning at 1 am. Champers is already chilling



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire




  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    VW is on the back burner for the moment. I have 2 family cars to get ready for the NCT. Doblo and a Clio. Needless to say any parts needed have to be sourced from Europe as the costs in Ireland from suppliers run to double the cost and more. So fek that for a game of dominoes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    Belated congratulations to your son. He obviously inherited the creative gene. Delighted you mentioned being proud of all the family.



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