"Kit 'Haddy' Iwamatsu" (Haddy)
06/19/2018 at 20:28 • Filed to: baja, beetle, bug, Volkswagen
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"Kit 'Haddy' Iwamatsu" (Haddy)
06/19/2018 at 20:28 • Filed to: baja, beetle, bug, Volkswagen | 5
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It’s the little things. Today I was feeling a bit cheeky, so I took it for a quick trip to subway. Small victory, it made it! It legitimately drives shockingly well, with the exception of the clutch and brakes feeling a bit odd, still trying to get the clutch adjusted and the brakes properly bled.
Upon restarting the engine (It cranks so sweet, barely bump the starter and it fires right up, no choke!) the charging light did not turn off. The gauge showed a flat 12 volts, so it seems I’m getting no charge. I booger rigged this with a ford regulator, because I have the less common externally regulated alternator. Rather than dink with the wiring to rig it back up, I’m just gonna go buy a cheap internally regulated aftermarket alternator and keep the externally regulated one in the parts bin.
It of course marked it’s territory... Leaving oil splotches here and there. I’m going to diagnose where its coming form, but i suspect the case halves. I’d rather NOT take it back apart for now, maybe a winter project...
AfromanGTO
> Kit 'Haddy' Iwamatsu
06/19/2018 at 21:45 |
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Very nice!
You should clay and wax it. It looks like the paint job has a lot of life left.
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Kit 'Haddy' Iwamatsu
> AfromanGTO
06/19/2018 at 22:46 |
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Only cloth baby diapers and imported carnauba for that shining paint job. It clearly needs 600 bucks or so in car care product to maintain that beauty. Or Icould go melt down a wax toilet bowl ring seal and smear that on there. Assuming I’m not looking at a DA sander with a scotch paint removal wheel on it and plotting to use cheap single state urethane paint on top of a urethane primer once i get it down to bare metal and fiberglass.
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AfromanGTO
> Kit 'Haddy' Iwamatsu
06/20/2018 at 16:42 |
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I was thinking more along the lines of 60 bucks, but you be all big baller and do that too. lol
I’m actually curious to see how much life is left in that paint. It looks like an 80s-early 90s paint job.
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Kit 'Haddy' Iwamatsu
> AfromanGTO
06/20/2018 at 23:50 |
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The answer is none. The roof has surface rust, there are deep cracks, and the fiberglass hood is in no shape to carry on. I’m hoping Ican sand/abrade the hood down and give it a urethane primer coat to protect it for now.