Rob and Dave’s Aircooled Pages are a great resource too:

http://www.vw-resource.com/

Their brakes pages are indexed here:

http://www.vw-resource.com/brakeslinks.html

Some simple first steps:

Visual inspection – looking for things like fluid leaks, soft brake lines. Bad? Fix it. Good?

Brake pedal – Is it firm? If sot, likely need to bleed the…[Read more]

Thanks, I am rep;acing the mounts, hope it works.  will advise.

I had the clutch chatter and was going to pull engine to check clutch. I then found bolts holding engine to trannie were a little loose. I tightened them and it started off with no chatter at all.

There are many informative and helpful videos on YouTube. I just search the subject I want to learn about. For your situation, I entered “air cooled vw brake” and it came up with over 5 different people showing how to do everything from inspecting to actually replacing the brakes. You can also google(or in my case Bing) “air cooled vw brake” and,…[Read more]

Scott
Do you have drums or disks that are locking up?

Mine also arrived yesterday. Really looking forward to this mini vacation.

Got mine yesterday! #8

Of course it will be on the windscreen of one of those German recreations.

Got my sticker today.

Okay. I had some damage to my passenger door due to the severe storms. I removed the door, made the repairs and am currently painting. I have some photos to post which leads to these questions.

(1) When I first add a photo, I go to my gallery and add the photos; then in the topic post, I select the photos I want to add and cut and paste.…[Read more]

Thanks anyway!! there has to be someone or something out there???….Please let me know if you hear of anything or find a good contact. I am willing to pay good$$$$ for any manuals, build sheets, parts, tool kit jack. If they are original Thanks Cliff

I had a girl come up to me and ask if she could have my car. I asked her if she could drive a manual transmission. She said no. So I told her, “Then I can’t give you my car. Because it has a manual transmission!”

I never had or was I ever able to find any manuals. I think I have the chrome Allison script. I did have a copy (picture of the fuse panel) With them all labeled but they weren’t the same as mine. My wiring was never hacked so I don’t know the difference, maybe just changes the factory made

The young gentleman at the tire store was afraid to move the car and asked me to. Must be young enough that he had never driven a Beetle.

We are lucky, lots of small wineries within a 10 mile drive. We could walk to Orfila (or back) if we had to.

you state you had an allison, well i have one and she is a looker but i have no owners manual part or build manuals nothing!! by any chance would you have anything or can you point me in the right direction in obtaining anything manuals jacks tool kit. Or do you have any spare part.