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Ooh Barracuda - The End of 'Christine' R.I.P
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The other day my car started to not want to start. I have a brand new battery so I new it couldn't be that, but it came to the point where everywhere I went I had to get a jump. I ended up bringing it to autozone and they tell me that my alternator is going out and that it killed my battery. Luckily the battery was still under warranty so I got a free new battery, and my parents kindly bought me an alternator.
After installing it I don't know how I used to drive with the old one. It must have been slowly dying because now my blinkers actually blink correctly most of the time and all of my lights are a lot brighter. My blinkers still slow down a bit when I have my lights on, but replacing the voltage regulator should maybe help a bit.
I also decided to replace my battery ground. The old one was in bad condition, and too small as well. I don't think it will do much but it looks better and is the correct size.
After installing it I don't know how I used to drive with the old one. It must have been slowly dying because now my blinkers actually blink correctly most of the time and all of my lights are a lot brighter. My blinkers still slow down a bit when I have my lights on, but replacing the voltage regulator should maybe help a bit.
I also decided to replace my battery ground. The old one was in bad condition, and too small as well. I don't think it will do much but it looks better and is the correct size.
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Coincidently, I put a new alternator in my car a few weeks ago as well. It hadn't died yet, but it was on its way out with a bad bearing. It was a pain in the ass though since there is almost zero room to work inside my engine bay compared to yours.
And is it me, or are alternators deceptively heavier than they look?
Coincidently, I put a new alternator in my car a few weeks ago as well. It hadn't died yet, but it was on its way out with a bad bearing. It was a pain in the ass though since there is almost zero room to work inside my engine bay compared to yours.
And is it me, or are alternators deceptively heavier than they look?
- 3,770
- Boss-Barracuda
Oh yeah, definitely. I can't imagine changing one on a modern car, It was ridiculously easy to change it on mine. Hell, the hardest part was holding it up to put a bolt in, and I had a friend helping me.
Tomorrow is going to be the last day I get to drive her until July 7th
, which really sucks, but going up to New Hampshire is going to be great. Luckily my friend is letting me keep her in his gated back yard, as well as starting her up from time to time, so I don't have to worry. When I get back I plan on taking apart my heater core and cleaning all the damn leaves out of it, then finally taking care of a lifter tick that I've had for too long. Hopefully I'll be able to find a job when I come back, but with my luck and it being into July chances will be slim.
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I have to say I'm jealous of your car. Great find for 3 grand. Sounds like a beast.
Edit: Thank you, now I can't get that song out of my head, Ooh, Barracuda....
Edit: Thank you, now I can't get that song out of my head, Ooh, Barracuda....
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lol, thanks.
Some good and bad news. Bad news is I'm only going to be in NH until the 16th, good news is I'm only going to be in NH until the 16th. I mean I love everything about being up here in NH, but my car happens to be 1000+ miles away and I'm just dying to drive it again. When I get back I definitely want to do a little messing around so expect another video sometime soon.
Some good and bad news. Bad news is I'm only going to be in NH until the 16th, good news is I'm only going to be in NH until the 16th. I mean I love everything about being up here in NH, but my car happens to be 1000+ miles away and I'm just dying to drive it again. When I get back I definitely want to do a little messing around so expect another video sometime soon.
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- fishtailrook1 (?)
I take it they don't have a rebuild shop around there for starters and alternators...sucky (i think it's cheaper to rebuild them than buy a new one, especially of that vintage)
oh, I've never had any trouble getting to the alternators on 80's and 90's vehicles (i've immolated at least three).
oh, I've never had any trouble getting to the alternators on 80's and 90's vehicles (i've immolated at least three).
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- Boss-Barracuda
From what my dad was telling me I figured he and I would rebuild it, but I needed to be able to drive my car, and my dad felt I might as well get a new one. Plus the price wasn't that bad, it ended up being about $70.
I still have my old one but I'm unsure about what I should do with it. I'm sure it's still worth something, do you have any advice on what I should do with it?
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During the past few days my car hasn't been feeling very well, but on Sunday she decided that she'd had enough of it. To start things off I've always had a problem with gaskets on my gas cap because they can't fully seal, but last Friday the one I had been using crapped out on me. Why this is an issue is because I put $20 in my tank on Friday, but by the time I got home $10 of that gas had already sloshed out of tank. Saturday was the same story even with a new gasket I tried to make, and come Sunday it was just above the E mark. That day I had to drive to my friends house and at a red light I notice my temperature gauge slowly rising and rising until it's almost hitting the end of the gauge. Luckily the light turned green before it overheated, but when I got to my friend's house and checked everything it needed some oil and my radiator was foaming like a rabid dog. The final straw came when I had to slow down from 40 to 0 and laid a 20 foot patch when I barely put on my brakes and my right front locked up.
Doing some research I thought that I needed a vented gas cap, but it turns out that I have a vent in my filler tube. Sometime across the years it must have gotten clogged with dirt or broken, but I was able to find a diagram of what it looks like and am going to check it out today. As for the radiator I knew the last time I checked it I filled it with water so I was expecting the worst when I drained it. Very surprisingly it came out perfectly clear with a bit of coolant in it as well, so I just bought some pre diluted coolant and topped it off.
The brakes on the other hand arent such an easy fix. A friend of my family knows a good bit about fixing cars, and has some free time, so I brought my car over to his house so he could check it out. After he took it for a short drive to check out the brakes I parked it on a cement slab and we put it up on four stands.
Opening up the master cylinder it turns out that Ive been driving around with pretty much no brake fluid. On top of that my brakes were terribly out of adjustment (which I already knew, you have to turn the car to the left to keep it straight under braking). Opening them up I saw that a cable inside my left front drum had come off explaining the pull to the right. Luckily for me nothing was warped and the shoes had plenty of life left in them so nothing needed to be replaced concerning that.
The real problem came when we were trying to bleed the rear brakes and absolutely nothing was coming out of them. The steel line running to the back was fine, but where it connected to a pressure hose in the back was where the problems started. The pressure hose itself wasnt letting anything through, leading us to assume that the proportion valve and the steel lines after it are clogged up as well. This morning Im going to be picking up the pressure hose at autozone, and looking for the proportion valve and lines at ACDelco since all the other auto parts stores dont seem to carry them. Hopefully well be able to finish it today and it will be fine, Ive got a wicked farmers tan from working in the damn hot Florida sun all day yesterday.
Doing some research I thought that I needed a vented gas cap, but it turns out that I have a vent in my filler tube. Sometime across the years it must have gotten clogged with dirt or broken, but I was able to find a diagram of what it looks like and am going to check it out today. As for the radiator I knew the last time I checked it I filled it with water so I was expecting the worst when I drained it. Very surprisingly it came out perfectly clear with a bit of coolant in it as well, so I just bought some pre diluted coolant and topped it off.
The brakes on the other hand arent such an easy fix. A friend of my family knows a good bit about fixing cars, and has some free time, so I brought my car over to his house so he could check it out. After he took it for a short drive to check out the brakes I parked it on a cement slab and we put it up on four stands.
Opening up the master cylinder it turns out that Ive been driving around with pretty much no brake fluid. On top of that my brakes were terribly out of adjustment (which I already knew, you have to turn the car to the left to keep it straight under braking). Opening them up I saw that a cable inside my left front drum had come off explaining the pull to the right. Luckily for me nothing was warped and the shoes had plenty of life left in them so nothing needed to be replaced concerning that.
The real problem came when we were trying to bleed the rear brakes and absolutely nothing was coming out of them. The steel line running to the back was fine, but where it connected to a pressure hose in the back was where the problems started. The pressure hose itself wasnt letting anything through, leading us to assume that the proportion valve and the steel lines after it are clogged up as well. This morning Im going to be picking up the pressure hose at autozone, and looking for the proportion valve and lines at ACDelco since all the other auto parts stores dont seem to carry them. Hopefully well be able to finish it today and it will be fine, Ive got a wicked farmers tan from working in the damn hot Florida sun all day yesterday.
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- fishtailrook1 (?)
*facepalm*
and here I thought you knew about that kind of thing. not just checking fluids, but double checking lines.
generally, you go over every line and hose on top of everything else if the car is over 10 years old or so. there's always a glitch, somewhere.
btw, this'll give me a bit of a tip as well. I've always had a nasty rear lockup with the 4Runner (which is in desperate need of a Posi), enough to flat-spot my rear tires. having a single pot brake reservoir doesn't help either (too much fluid is going to rear drums with front two pot calipers).
and here I thought you knew about that kind of thing. not just checking fluids, but double checking lines.
generally, you go over every line and hose on top of everything else if the car is over 10 years old or so. there's always a glitch, somewhere.
btw, this'll give me a bit of a tip as well. I've always had a nasty rear lockup with the 4Runner (which is in desperate need of a Posi), enough to flat-spot my rear tires. having a single pot brake reservoir doesn't help either (too much fluid is going to rear drums with front two pot calipers).
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I meant to check it much earlier but I never got around to it for some reason. Also not to try to blame other people but a long time ago I asked my dad if he could help me check my brakes all around, the post with a picture is actually somewhere in this thread. He told me they should be fine after only taking the cap off one of front brakes and seeing that it had been done semi recently. I just took his word for it since he knows what he's talking about most of the time.
Looking for one part today we found out this is going to be a much bigger problem then we thought it would be. Apparently no one on the face of the earth sells Mopar proportion valves, and if I do find one it will be outrageous. Plan A is to try and find one, I know a guy who knows a guy with a few parts car Barracudas so if it comes down to it I could see if he'll sell me one of them. Plan B is to try and clean it out somehow, but that's a lot easier said then done. I'm going to consult the guys over at the early a body forums, hopefully they'll be able to shed some light on this.
I haven't had a chance to really search the internet though because my regular net is out and the one I'm able to connect to works in spurts.
Looking for one part today we found out this is going to be a much bigger problem then we thought it would be. Apparently no one on the face of the earth sells Mopar proportion valves, and if I do find one it will be outrageous. Plan A is to try and find one, I know a guy who knows a guy with a few parts car Barracudas so if it comes down to it I could see if he'll sell me one of them. Plan B is to try and clean it out somehow, but that's a lot easier said then done. I'm going to consult the guys over at the early a body forums, hopefully they'll be able to shed some light on this.
I haven't had a chance to really search the internet though because my regular net is out and the one I'm able to connect to works in spurts.
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Sorry to hear about the problems you are having with your car. If you do need a part you could always try going to a swap meet or a flea market, I know you have a ton of them down in Florida. You might get lucky and find something for a very reasonable price. It's worth a look if the part you are looking for is very expensive new.
Also have you tried places like YearOne and JCWhitney? They seem to have everything under the sun and even some under suns that a light years away. Sometimes there stuff isn't always on the website so you might want to give them a call.
Also have you tried places like YearOne and JCWhitney? They seem to have everything under the sun and even some under suns that a light years away. Sometimes there stuff isn't always on the website so you might want to give them a call.
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http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/x,carcode,1347353,pgname,Brake%2FWheel+Hub
Try these guys. I got my Nova's entire exhaust from them, and their prices are usually reasonable.
Try these guys. I got my Nova's entire exhaust from them, and their prices are usually reasonable.
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- Boss-Barracuda
Following the advice I was given at the early A body forum we put on the new pressure hose today and tried to bleed the brakes. Luckily for us it worked so we bled all the brakes and put everything back on. I let him drive it and he said it was fine so we packed up all our stuff and I drove home. Having no rear brakes, or good working brakes at that, there's a lot more pedal than I'm used to. Compared to what it used to be the pedal is wicked hard, but it's something I'll just have to get used to.
On the drive home though the brakes started to act funny. When I was starting off it didn't pull to any side but when I let go of the wheel while driving it wanted to go right (which I'm assuming is because of the flat spot in my right front tire). As I drove more the brakes began to pull to the right again and became noisy like they were before we worked on them (like a metal on metal sound, but the shoes are fine. Maybe I glazed them before?). After it started doing that I was slowing down gradually from a 55 to a stop light and my right front (I think) let out a really loud high pitch screech all the way to a stop. It only did that one time but it was still showing the same symptoms all the way until I got to my house. I called him and we're going to try and readjust the brakes, but after all that it shouldn't be doing the same thing, especially now that I have rear brakes as well. Hopefully that will solve it, but I have a bad feeling that I might have to replace the front shoes.
On the drive home though the brakes started to act funny. When I was starting off it didn't pull to any side but when I let go of the wheel while driving it wanted to go right (which I'm assuming is because of the flat spot in my right front tire). As I drove more the brakes began to pull to the right again and became noisy like they were before we worked on them (like a metal on metal sound, but the shoes are fine. Maybe I glazed them before?). After it started doing that I was slowing down gradually from a 55 to a stop light and my right front (I think) let out a really loud high pitch screech all the way to a stop. It only did that one time but it was still showing the same symptoms all the way until I got to my house. I called him and we're going to try and readjust the brakes, but after all that it shouldn't be doing the same thing, especially now that I have rear brakes as well. Hopefully that will solve it, but I have a bad feeling that I might have to replace the front shoes.
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- Boss-Barracuda
I wasn't going to post for another day or two but something kinda came up which made me want to.
First of all my brand new alternator's bearing is now dying. I don't know how it happened but the other night I was driving around and when I stopped to check out my gas cap I heard a noise coming from the alternator. Looking at it the next day I also found a bunch of light grease splattered where the alternator is. I wasn't fooling around or anything and the belt wasn't too tight so I don't know how this could have happened other than a manufacturing error. I'm going to take it back to autozone tomorrow and get a new one, hopefully that one won't fail.
Tonight despite the fact that my alternator is acting up I decided to go over my friend's house. On the way home I was driving and a cop turned onto the street I was on in front of me, then turned on the street before the one I had to turn on. The way I was going home is a popular route so I knew exactly what that cop was doing, and sure enough she met up with me and started following me. Not three seconds later she flipped her lights on and I pulled over.
Apparently my tag light was out. It could be from a number of things, my alternator is going bad, it had rained earlier, or it just went out. Surprisingly she was very nice, and even complimented me about my car. Despite giving my heart a good work out I'd say this was a good experience that has slightly changed my opinion of the police. It's not that I hate them or anything, but it gets tiring being followed by the police whenever they get a chance. Hell the other day another cop tried to follow me out of my apartment complex again but I was able to escape into the Publix (food store) parking lot and park there for a bit.
Some good news though is that I decided to buy the 1966 mechanics repair manual for my car. Was $60 but it well tell me everything I'll ever need to know and then some about how to fix my car. Well worth it, I can't wait until It gets here.
First of all my brand new alternator's bearing is now dying. I don't know how it happened but the other night I was driving around and when I stopped to check out my gas cap I heard a noise coming from the alternator. Looking at it the next day I also found a bunch of light grease splattered where the alternator is. I wasn't fooling around or anything and the belt wasn't too tight so I don't know how this could have happened other than a manufacturing error. I'm going to take it back to autozone tomorrow and get a new one, hopefully that one won't fail.
Tonight despite the fact that my alternator is acting up I decided to go over my friend's house. On the way home I was driving and a cop turned onto the street I was on in front of me, then turned on the street before the one I had to turn on. The way I was going home is a popular route so I knew exactly what that cop was doing, and sure enough she met up with me and started following me. Not three seconds later she flipped her lights on and I pulled over.
Apparently my tag light was out. It could be from a number of things, my alternator is going bad, it had rained earlier, or it just went out. Surprisingly she was very nice, and even complimented me about my car. Despite giving my heart a good work out I'd say this was a good experience that has slightly changed my opinion of the police. It's not that I hate them or anything, but it gets tiring being followed by the police whenever they get a chance. Hell the other day another cop tried to follow me out of my apartment complex again but I was able to escape into the Publix (food store) parking lot and park there for a bit.
Some good news though is that I decided to buy the 1966 mechanics repair manual for my car. Was $60 but it well tell me everything I'll ever need to know and then some about how to fix my car. Well worth it, I can't wait until It gets here.
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For quite some time my friends been looking for another vehicle that he can have fun with. It's gone from sandrail to sandrail and buggy to buggy but every time he's gotten close to buying it the seller backs out or something goes wrong. Well a few days ago my friend came across a 74 Beetle and it's history from there.
The body is solid which is mainly why my friend bought it, well that and the fact that it's awesome. Parts are extremely cheap depending on what your buying and it is very easy to go from stock to Baja Buggy. The previous owner badly spray painted it primer gray and never finished sanding the hood. The exhaust has also fallen off so it's quite loud, although I kinda like it that way, sounds a bit like it's making bubbles. It has a lot of minor problems that all really add up, but it's nothing that he and I can't take care of with a few days of work and a few parts here and there. The plan is to get it running legally by next Wednesday so that he and I can both be in the car show I always go to.
Since it's a classic and I don't want to start a new thread I'll be updating for both mine and his from now on. Expect quite a lot of progress on the Beetle in the next few weeks.
The body is solid which is mainly why my friend bought it, well that and the fact that it's awesome. Parts are extremely cheap depending on what your buying and it is very easy to go from stock to Baja Buggy. The previous owner badly spray painted it primer gray and never finished sanding the hood. The exhaust has also fallen off so it's quite loud, although I kinda like it that way, sounds a bit like it's making bubbles. It has a lot of minor problems that all really add up, but it's nothing that he and I can't take care of with a few days of work and a few parts here and there. The plan is to get it running legally by next Wednesday so that he and I can both be in the car show I always go to.
Since it's a classic and I don't want to start a new thread I'll be updating for both mine and his from now on. Expect quite a lot of progress on the Beetle in the next few weeks.
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^Make sure he always keeps a spare fan belt in his trunk, and knows how to replace/maintain the one on his engine.
Also, he should check out this forum it helps me out from time to time: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
Also, he should check out this forum it helps me out from time to time: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
Smallhorses
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Welcome to the air-cooled, Rear-engine / Rear-drive & upside-down pedals club!
What's odd though is that he's got the fat alloys on the front, rather than the driving wheels where they'd be better off!
Welcome to the air-cooled, Rear-engine / Rear-drive & upside-down pedals club!
What's odd though is that he's got the fat alloys on the front, rather than the driving wheels where they'd be better off!
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Or if you have any questions, you could PM me since I know quite a bit about Bugs from owning one. I'm a member at The Samba BTW, and it's a great site with plenty of writeups and knowledgeable members.
Speaking of which, I really need to get an exhaust clip in my exhaust thread!
Speaking of which, I really need to get an exhaust clip in my exhaust thread!
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We just picked it up today so we haven't had a chance to really mess around with anything. We were going to put the front rims on the back but the rear tires are both wider and larger. They sell really wide four lugs that look like the fronts which would be the best thing for it, but they're a bit pricey so he's going to look into getting some cheaper wide rims and adapters.
Thanks for the advice, I'll definitely let my friend know tomorrow when we start working on it.
Thanks for the advice, I'll definitely let my friend know tomorrow when we start working on it.
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- Anoka, MN
You could just pick up a cheap set of Cragar or Unique steel wheels for like 35-40 bucks apiece and have the correct bolt pattern.
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We definitely didn't get as much done as we should and could have, but we did at least figure out what needs to be done to start. To at least get it legal we'll need to get some of the wiring figured out, get all new fuses, a new front left blinker assembly, and new lights where needed. On top of that the wheels don't have any weights on them so they're terribly out of balance.
Most of what we did today was look around and try to figure out what needs to be done. We bought a Haynes manual which is a great help since we barely knew anything about it. First we installed the right blinker and figured out that the left one will need parts to work, but it's in bad shape so he'd rather just get a new one. We have the handle and opener for the hood, but we can't install it because it is missing the bolts (where do you get just two bolts that would fit that?). We had planned on fixing the hood today and we moved it so that it fit better, but tomorrow I want to sand it down and primer it to make it look better and make sure it doesn't rust.
As for the engine the first thing we noticed was that the belt is terribly out of shape, we'll need to get a new one tomorrow. We wanted to know what exactly the engine was and thanks to the Haynes manual we found out something interesting. Apparently the AH means that this engine is a 60hp 1600cc from a 71 California only Beetle. We think the engine may be hoped up a bit though because somewhere it says that it's a 1698 (or something around there) cc engine and it's quite loud.
The biggest thing we got done today was putting some sort of exhaust on it. There was still a bit of pipe on each side so we decided to get some pipe from home depot and try to at least get it to point out of the engine bay. With a bit of fitting we were able to get them on there, and by some sort of miracle they came out to be in relatively the same spots. Without a muffler it's already quite loud, but now that there's pipes on there it's a good bit deeper. It has to be the meanest four cylinder I've ever heard.
With good news of the Beetle also comes some good news for my car. My repair manual for my car finally came in the mail, was $60 but it's the best $60 I've spent on my car so far. It will tell me everything I'll need to know about fixing anything on my car and then some. It should come in handy pretty soon since I really need to fix the lifter tick I have and my car now shakes pretty bad (probably the ball joints but I'm still not %100 sure what the problem is since I've been working on other cars. It's not the tires because we put the tires from the back on the front and it didn't make any difference).
Most of what we did today was look around and try to figure out what needs to be done. We bought a Haynes manual which is a great help since we barely knew anything about it. First we installed the right blinker and figured out that the left one will need parts to work, but it's in bad shape so he'd rather just get a new one. We have the handle and opener for the hood, but we can't install it because it is missing the bolts (where do you get just two bolts that would fit that?). We had planned on fixing the hood today and we moved it so that it fit better, but tomorrow I want to sand it down and primer it to make it look better and make sure it doesn't rust.
As for the engine the first thing we noticed was that the belt is terribly out of shape, we'll need to get a new one tomorrow. We wanted to know what exactly the engine was and thanks to the Haynes manual we found out something interesting. Apparently the AH means that this engine is a 60hp 1600cc from a 71 California only Beetle. We think the engine may be hoped up a bit though because somewhere it says that it's a 1698 (or something around there) cc engine and it's quite loud.
The biggest thing we got done today was putting some sort of exhaust on it. There was still a bit of pipe on each side so we decided to get some pipe from home depot and try to at least get it to point out of the engine bay. With a bit of fitting we were able to get them on there, and by some sort of miracle they came out to be in relatively the same spots. Without a muffler it's already quite loud, but now that there's pipes on there it's a good bit deeper. It has to be the meanest four cylinder I've ever heard.
With good news of the Beetle also comes some good news for my car. My repair manual for my car finally came in the mail, was $60 but it's the best $60 I've spent on my car so far. It will tell me everything I'll need to know about fixing anything on my car and then some. It should come in handy pretty soon since I really need to fix the lifter tick I have and my car now shakes pretty bad (probably the ball joints but I'm still not %100 sure what the problem is since I've been working on other cars. It's not the tires because we put the tires from the back on the front and it didn't make any difference).
- 3,770
- Boss-Barracuda
Like the other day we didn't get too much done yesterday, but we're confident that we're going to get more accomplished today by setting up a plan and focusing on one task at a time.
Yesterday we started off by checking the brakes, which were fine shoe wise, but needed to be bled. We started to bleed the brakes and everything was going fine until the master cylinder failed and started leaking fluid behind the pedal. The game plan is to get the brakes taken care of today then move onto to something else. I also started sanding the hood which I got the be semi decently smooth, but it's still full of high and low spots because of all the chips in the bondo I had to sand down to be smooth. I'm not sure what my friend wants to do, but if he doesn't care i'm just going to sand over the exposed metal then paint it, i'm sure it will look decent.
After that we stopped working on the Beetle and tried focusing a bit on the other vehicles. His Blazer's air conditioning went last week and the parts came in a few days ago so we started working on that. We replaced the compressor and the evaporator, but we didn't have any oil so that stopped that project. As for my car I noticed when I got home the other night that my tag light was out again. A long time ago when I first got my car I replaced the tag light bulb and put the assembly back on. Somehow instead of putting the assembly behind the holes where it goes I put it on the front. I always noticed that the assembly was a bit loose, but it took me until last night when it wouldn't hold to realize that I was putting it on the wrong way causing it to shake and kill the bulb. I didn't have any extra bulbs but luckily I was able to use one of the bulbs from the Beetle's taillight temporarily. It's a good thing I didn't try to chance it since I passed a cop on the way home, I don't think they'd believe me that I actually did change it and it went out again.
Yesterday we started off by checking the brakes, which were fine shoe wise, but needed to be bled. We started to bleed the brakes and everything was going fine until the master cylinder failed and started leaking fluid behind the pedal. The game plan is to get the brakes taken care of today then move onto to something else. I also started sanding the hood which I got the be semi decently smooth, but it's still full of high and low spots because of all the chips in the bondo I had to sand down to be smooth. I'm not sure what my friend wants to do, but if he doesn't care i'm just going to sand over the exposed metal then paint it, i'm sure it will look decent.
After that we stopped working on the Beetle and tried focusing a bit on the other vehicles. His Blazer's air conditioning went last week and the parts came in a few days ago so we started working on that. We replaced the compressor and the evaporator, but we didn't have any oil so that stopped that project. As for my car I noticed when I got home the other night that my tag light was out again. A long time ago when I first got my car I replaced the tag light bulb and put the assembly back on. Somehow instead of putting the assembly behind the holes where it goes I put it on the front. I always noticed that the assembly was a bit loose, but it took me until last night when it wouldn't hold to realize that I was putting it on the wrong way causing it to shake and kill the bulb. I didn't have any extra bulbs but luckily I was able to use one of the bulbs from the Beetle's taillight temporarily. It's a good thing I didn't try to chance it since I passed a cop on the way home, I don't think they'd believe me that I actually did change it and it went out again.
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