Sure you had oversteer in your Beetle before the rear sway bar, BD?Other than that, I concur. It is probably a good idea to do a rear swaybar install on the IRS TD, since we’ve modded the VW to place even more weight rearward while unloading the front suspension, which tends in both cases to promote understeer. With the adjustable front beam…[Read more]

I like the plastic idea but these “purists” here…I dunno…

Mark: Baltimore. Roll down 95–or Route 1, why not?–I’ll take you for a spin in Bridget and then you can head toward Columbus on I-70

Good deal! 

Here here!Slower if possible, but it’s not often possible.

Nice car, nice life!

Another method: get a 8 or 10-inch bit of 2×4. Rest an end on your knockoff ear & hit that with any hammer you want. 

Ah, the link is back then! Good dealy. For any interested, the SoCal wheel is here. Quite spendy at $360, I know, but no more so than the Flat 4, once all the accessories you need for the Flat 4 are counted (Boss kit: $50, horn button: $90?!), and it’s an almost drop-in replacement for the old style Grants all our cars came with, AND it’s…[Read more]

I’d do it if I had spinners, B. I don’t, so I wont. Plenty other projects pending and, yeah, there will by pics.BTW, what’s the big deal? The stuff was made to be hit with a hammer. Why not do it?

Paul overstates it a bit. 58 hp was rating for the Mark II, special speed edition (fewer than 2,000 were made, as against nearly 30,000 total TD production). The stock, standard XPAG engine was rated (rather ambitiously, I hear) at 54 horsepower. Top speed tested around 78 mph, and that’s with a bit of tuning. Gross weight was given as “a…[Read more]

Word on the steering couplers is that the pretty red urethane ones fail; stick with rubber.

Nice looking block, Al. You do realize the original TDs are strictly show, right? Saw one at Carlisle with Ohio plates. Asked the owner–who looked like a hardy soul–if he drove it. He just laughed. Said it rides like a buckboard & so he never goes more than 20-30 miles at a time, and never near the highway. Now, I guess a Rover/Buick 8 could…[Read more]

Turns out the 40 Ford banjo wheels will fit a VW hub
with just a little filing.  17-inch wheel and apparently available in
beat-up shape from bone yards. A cool hack.I got mine from SoCal. Direct bolt-on for the three-hole Grant hub. They were supposed to send a 15 inch version but didn’t. I still see ads for a smaller one here and there. The…[Read more]

Welcome to the forum, Pat. We’ll keep an eye out & so should you. I found mine on Craigslist.

That’s what I’m talking about. That material is in my scrap bin, so my cost would be about $0 + a half hour of fiddling with the jig saw.

The other way on this is to get a length of hardwood ply and cut a hole in it in the shape of your spinners. There’s your wrench.

Your GF does not frequent this site, one supposes.Congrats on getting the stud out. I had an easier time with one that snapped on the VW case last year. just lucky I guess. Thanks for the Bad Dog tip. will investigate.Onward!

Thanks for the info. Sounds like a car that needs a bit of work, hope it goes to an owner with intentions of tender loving care.

fuel vapor lock? 

I just did the gas gauge on Bridget. Removed the old Classic Instruments gauge–which never read full–and replaced it with the in-speedo gauge from a ’72 Bug.Turned out the used speedo I got had a bad vibrator too, and the sending unit for the CI gauge was no good for the stock VW gauge. So I followed these troubleshooting tips (same, really, as…[Read more]