Dismantling a 1971 vw 1200cc Engine Part 4

How to remove the gland nut.....

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I finally had some time ...on a saturday ...sometime ago...

You will need a lot of room to set it all up.... I used a 4 feet cheater pipe and a 4 feet 'L' angle frame. The 'L' angle is to brace the fly wheel from moving...I supported the L angle on some bricks to make sure that nothing it is touching the engine main bolts at the bottom cos it might crack or brake easily... you wouldnt want to damage the treads on those bolts .... and it also helps to not damage the floor tiles.

The two bolts which i have braced the L angle on will get damaged so i will need to replace them.

Then gently push on the cheater pipe and gradually put more force into it till the nut comes lose.... i was a little amazed how easyly it came off...


Now all you have to do is take a big screw driver and pry the fly wheel off...... be cautious thought... the flywheel is heavy and it may come off and drop to the floor thus damaging it.... so do wha you can to hold it steady or brace it or something....

Paint Part 4

Remember that landie...... its now good friends with the bug... The landie sacrifice its place in the booth and delayed its completion so that the bug could be primered so that it wouldnt rust anymore.... it even offered to carry some of the bug parts....

Below.... the bug with fresh primer....

hmmm... Baja buggy??...


hmmm... Baja Buggy??...

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After they primered the bug... they started work on the landie again...

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tbc

Paint Part 3

Days of sanding is almost over,,..... and it has revealed some minor metal rot along the rim of the window sills....

but other than that its all good....

There are tiny holes at the corners of the window sills..... we need to make sure these are not sealed after painting....

Dashboard metal work smoothened out.....

Back in 2005 when the floors were being done this part of the hood was packed with a thick layer of bondo and it revealed a bad metal job.... Althought it was replaced with new metal, the welding wasnt nicely done..... it was further improved in UEP but again it wasnt to my current liking.... The current body work welding guy asked if i wanted to redo it completely but i didnt want to add on to the bill, so he just reworked the welding and made a smooth finish.... i dont have a good photo of it but just imagine the photo above but with smoother weld work.

Painterman preped the body for epoxy primer..... the car was left in the booth to protect it from moisture.... it was and still is raining heavily....

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tcb

Paint Part 2

A new year ..... and new metal...... ok maybe not new metal.... but after a lot of sanding it looked all shiny.....

But all that sanding revealed alot of bad and rough spots on the car...... i really wonder what this car could tell me about its history....... The only bad history i know about my car was that on the second day that i owned it.... some idiot reversed into my car and dented the right rear fender pretty badly....

As you can see below..... welder guy is working on that fender before he removed it.

It looks nice in bare metal..... hmmmm...




Rear fender removed...

The roof was the only part that was completely free of any bad spots.... as you can see below, half of which was sanded down........

Check out that white E-type Jaguar and the red lotus on the right..... you can even see the bonet of another E-type behind that mini.... The landi behind my car looks good too but has had alot of panel work done to it...... almost looks ready for paint....

Sanding and more sanding........ wish i could buy painterman a proper mask....

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to be continued......

Paint Part1

The car sat in my porch for about six months before i got the courage to commit to a paint job..... then one day i walked into one of the many workshops near were i live (PJS7) and was pretty impressed with the work done by this duo, a painter and body repair welder guy....

After some discussions i strike up a deal and next thing you know they are pushing my car out of my house..... I asked if we didnt have to use a tow truck as the shop is was very close by....


....on the short road to salvation......

...after a long 200 meter push ...we stopped at the 'mamak' (restaurant) to get a drink.... the car was left at the junction and it drew a lot of attention.... luckily didnt cause any accidents...

(All smiles to the shop... even the car looked like it was smiling)

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....after a refreshing drink in was onward to the paintshop.... the painterman is on the right in green and the body repair guy welder guy is on the left.... The hardworking foreign worker guy in at the back..... (ok enuff picture taking and more helping to push car to shop)....

Let the progress begin.....

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Undersealed and safely back home....

UEP did a good job of undersealing all the relevent area.......


Wheel wells





Rear Luggage area and firewall

Trunk area and spare wheel area.....

Engine bay and fire wall

Front kick panels, floors and underside......

all looks clean and solid.......

All was that was left was the complete metal prep for the shell, primer seal, sanding, final knocking and then a full paint job......

it was mid Jun 2008....... i looked a number of a good painters but the price was very high... it didnt help that it was a complete bare metal strip down.......

So i decided to put the project on hold...... towed it back to the house where it set under a tarp for the next 6 months......

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To Be Continued......

Engine engine engine!!!... what happen to the shell body of the car??

The last time i left you with updates of the shell was that i had removed all the tit bits and the engine.... That was early last year... so what happened after that?... the car painter dude in Klang was not working out... everytime i went there nothing was being done too it.... Then he started saying that the car needs a lot of body work done before he can continue with anything....

It was all a load of BS..!!!.... so i started looking for a new place to do some body work...... I wanted to get the seat rails welded in and also deal with the radio area and delete plate... It was some time in Jun 2008... through a forum member... i decided to send my car to UEP Auto body repair in USJ.

Car being tow from Klang along the Federal Highway....



Finally the car has seats.... vw seats....

experiment gone wrong......

Althought i was okwith most all the welding work.... i wasnt too happy done to the firewall...




To Be Continued.........