Paint Part 8

The Interior is all smooth now.... nice!!...

Sanding and more sanding....

I didnt know that they would be this maticulus.... even the underside of the hood and engine bonet is being sorted.....

Paint Part 7

The rear window sill was very badly welder by the last guys who worked on my car the last time. The new guys reworked its and smoothed it all out..... as seen above comparison...

As you have read before.... im redoing the interior to look like a standard beetle.... On a deluxe there are grooves and grips that hold on to the headliner.... since im not having a full headliner, all these will need to go. The comparison below shows the rear of the interior... shaved and smooth...


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Paint Part 6

Some minor metal work (Knocking, welding and grinding) done all over here and there..... The left fender was in terrible shape and i was deciding whether to get a new one or not.... but they seem to have knocked it out the best they could. Getting a new fender would surely be over my budget..... even a secondhand one cost more then RM 150... not more then RM200.

The A pillar window sill was reworked.... no more holes....

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Paint Part 5

I decided to make the interior of my beetle to look like a Standard Beetle interior. Actually i am planning to only have a single roof headliner installed. So all the other areas of the interior which is normally covered with headliner material will be exposed painted metal.

So the guys at the shop have more work to do... like smooth out the whole interior......

All the grooves that whole the headliner has been shaved and later smoothed out..

As seen below.... the ex-owner had jabbed and drilled holes to screw the sunvisors into placed....SIGH!!!.... im not sure what to do yet.......

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tbc

Mo's Beetle's friend all painted all....

Remember the landie that was keeping my car company.... and even carried some of its part for a few weeks..... who gave up its time in the boot so that my car could be rust proofed....

well as you can see by the photos... is has been painted... not a colour i would pick for a landie but it still looks cool........

Dismantling a 1971 vw 1200cc Engine Part 5

ok after getting the flywheel off i then started taking the generator stand, fuel pump and distributor off of the engine... which was only unbolting some bolts and thats all...

alamak! the desciption in the photo is wrong.... its generator stand not Oil Filter....

ok ... now i can stand taking the heads out... first unclip the Valve cover.... you will be in full view of the rocker assembly... unbolt the two nuts on in as seen below and carefully take the whole thing out and bag it...

Take the push rods out and bag it.... u can test if they are any good by rolling in on an even surface.... if they roll funny you will need a new set....

The push rods....

Now, unbolt the 8 bolts, 4 on the inside of the Vavle area and 4 out side on the head.... Loosen all the bolts first before going at them fully.....then slowly pull the head off... give it a little tap with a mallet or your palm but be carefull not to damage the fins....

Becarefull of the push rod tube if you want to keep them.... im going to replace them completely with new push rods tube seal too...

closeup of the heads....

i dont know if you can see in this photo below.... there is a deflector plate which is clipped on onto the cylinders.... this pieces is very important in keeping the air circulating around the cylinders... it is on only the left cylinders.... if you dont have one i suggest you get it....

After unclipping it you can now slid the cylinders of.... again you may need the mallet but be very very very carefull to not damage the fins.... While the cylinders slowly come off... make sure that the pistons do not just drop out of the cylinders.... take care not to damage it.... especially if it is in good condition and you plan to keep it.

Ok ....this is where im at with the engine........ i will need to clear some time to remove the pistons next....


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to be continued

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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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......