Ah, ok.
I’m more familiar with pie plates than tie plates. With my mom’s apple pie. With ice cream.

Yours is not to question why….
And most definitely not to question the German engineers! I won’t put it  in writing, but I have a really funny quote from VW’s North American marketing head, said directly to me during the Audi “sudden  accelration” public relations debacle.
I think it’s impossible to drive the speedo cable from the rear wh…[Read more]

What I don’t get is why the bus cables are longer. The way those vehicles are laid out, with the driver basically sitting on top of the front wheel, I’d have thought they’d be, if anything, shorter.Do the buses use the driver’s front wheel to turn the speedo?

I think he means a tie plate, for joining and reinforcing dimensional lumber as used in structural framing.

I get the metal plate, grounded to the chassis. That is a great idea!
What does the “wood to wood” reference mean?

I still suggest taking some measurements on YOUR car.
The two bus cables are over 15 inches different. Depending on how you route your cable, the difference could be significant.

In the manuals in the Download manuals tab on the left, the manual for CMC Fiberfab suggests the bus speedometer cable and gives the length AND the VW part number. Cool beans huh.

I had’nt thought of doing that but it sounds like a great idea. That way you can do a one stop check on all of the grounds. But Im not sure I understad the tie plate you used.

I just put a bus cable on mine . It works great.

To all you lucky folks who are attending the Carlisle show, drive safe, have a great time and take lots of pics for we, the unfortunate ones who couldn’t make it this year.

Get the Orange book or blue book depending on year of motor. Also pick up a copy of John muirs book. These are priceless. And by all means don’t let fear slow you down. It can always be fixed and the people who origanally built these were on the most part no smarter than you or I. It is all very elimentary (Iknow Spelling) thats what I mean.

Bus cable works, Just got one but haven’t had time to replace yet.

Leaving tomorrow at 5   car is loaded  need to spot somewhere for Browns and chips.  I have a pullout bed that is free if needed bring a bag and pillow. Look for georgie  White top green bottom motorhome. I certainly have room.  I hate parking in tent area so it will be close by.  I’ll see you all this weekend.

i used a metal wood to wood tie plate, its a galvainized flat plate with lots of holes screwed to the firewall so i can run all future grounds there and it is grounded with 12 ga wire to the frame. a good place to clip your test light when working under dash.

Stanli,
Great to here of another car close.  Im in Sweetwater and am frequent to Big Spring for my job.  Where are you located in town?
CHC

I searched around and was supprized to also find the Valvoline Racing 20w50 in my local Oreilly’s.  Quarts for $4.98 and my brother-in-law works there. 
 

The Volks guys at The Samba swear by Brad Penn racing oil. I started using it last summer and my engine temp dropped 10 degrees. I think I will stick with it. High in ZDDP. I found mine at amazon.com. It depends on the vendor, but averages around $5.00 to $6.00 a quart. Heres a link http://www.amazon.com/Brad-Penn-10W30-Partial-Synthetic/dp/B 0…[Read more]

I moved the photo upload discussion here:
https://tdreplica.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1546& PN=1&TPN=1

What Ed said is correct.
What I said is correct too.  The local photo management and editing software is NOT involved in the image upload process.
When you click the icon with the Tree & Arrow, a pop-up will open that is titled “Image Upload” with a white space and a “browse” button.

Click the browse button and a second pop-up will open that…[Read more]

Look at the names your photos are given by the photo program. Mine get something like DSCN2076.JPGthe “.JPG” is what tells all the machinery what format the photo is saved in. –JPG is JPEG.I suspect the Kodak program is saving your pictures as GIFs or something else. The way to deal with that is to open the photos and click “save as” in the menu…[Read more]