I finally got the trailing arms completely cleaned and painted. Tomorrow I’ll install the ball joints and then clean and paint the front beam and move on to the brake drums and brakes. Photos can be found here:

Hey john barry, that would be an interesting thread. A chart that you go to once a month to fill in number miles we drive at the end of the year we woud know total miles our replicas drove and what the cost of gasoline to drive them was.Since i,m bacially cumputer dumb.I would be a poor person to do this.Maybe our leader would know how to do th…[Read more]

ok – I have about 19000 on mine..

about 18 thousand

Hey  Greg -How many miles are on your LR?

Bill, Exactly correct!  The axle spindle is hollow and the speedo cable runs through it and through a 3/16 square hole in the end of the grease/dust cap.  I think that this was standard on VW’s for many many years.  A bit non-conventional if not odd.  Did you know that the windshield washer fluid for many years was propelled by air from the spa…[Read more]

Sorry, but not having a VW based machine, I’ve been confused over the last bit here

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I love an easy fix.

one nut each side top under wheel well very loose pulled up on fender tightened. Something that was a little strange driverside bolt went from front to back .Drivers side back to front .  Someone must had a problem before            

You’re talking the front fenders correct? How many of the bolts were loose?

Seriously Ed, It grew in diameter when I did it.  The exact opposite from what I wanted.  I wish I had saved the cap that I “whacked the crap out of”.  

Seriously. My thought was to use a thin-walled replacement (I assume they’re thinner-walled) and hammer it: set it in a vice (probably in a piece of wood drilled so the cap lip is supported all around), open end up and get a dowel that’s just a bit smaller than the I.D., then whack the crap out of it.Thinking the cap will elongate a bit and get a…[Read more]

Here a copy of that letter.

Most of my tool collection is left handed. Very little seems to work right.

You must have been using a right handed hammer…ya need that left handed one!  

I tried the hammer.  then another hammer and then a different hammer.  All I managed to do was make the original cap smaller.  Don’t forget that there is important stuff (the wheel bearing nut) that is inside the cup.  No way could I get it small enough to fit inside the adapter yet large enough to fit around the axle spindle nut.  Maybe ther…[Read more]

Roy I’m like ed…Hammer, hammer, hammer. Old air force maintenance saying…hammer it to fit and paint it to match! Dats me!  Nice job.

Me, I’mma use a HAMMER!

There’s an email letter going around from SEMA that adrdesses that and the new house bill to kill raising ethanol to 15%. The Ethanol is bad for the new engines especially the seals. newkitman2012-08-22 18:28:04

Nice work Roy. I had a chuckle when you listed tools used. It was almost a complete machine shop. I always say there is nothing a good man can’t fix with enough tools.