What have you done to your rig today?

[gungriffin]

Cold weather lesson:

Sometimes you just forget how old a car battery is and that they don't last as long as they use too and can do really weird things when they go bad. For the life of me I couldn't figure out, after tuning up the 55, why it wouldn't run/idle right!?! It would start, sputter and then die. It would run fully choked but, then die when unchoked.....I checked everything again and then finally checked the battery and it was showing 18 volts, not running!?! Have no clue how or why a battery would show that high of volts and yet not run the engine. I looked and the battery was from 2008 and figured it had lived a good life and needed to be replaced.

So, I decide to put a new battery in and this is a second lesson. O'rielly's wanted $179.00 for a #25 battery....dam that seemed expensive so, I ran down to Costco and got a #25 Interstate Battery for $89.00! Got it home, dropped it in and the Pig started on the first crank, idled perfectly and ran without the choke and charges at just over 13/14 volts.
Something about that old, failing battery caused the engine to behave badly!

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Your sign in the rear window is pretty damn funny. Thanks for the laugh this morning.

It is amazing how many weird issues can be caused by a failing battery.

 

[KC Masterpiece]

Father in law added a new item to the fleet. This is going to be Amber's new summer commuter. There go all my summer work plans for the 80.....

74 super beetle! No real rust just needs a carb tune and some interior TLC. Ran pretty well today!

Any VW enthusiasts around here?

 

[Inukshuk]

Father in law added a new item to the fleet. This is going to be Amber's new summer commuter. There go all my summer work plans for the 80.....
74 super beetle! No real rust just needs a carb tune and some interior TLC. Ran pretty well today!
Any VW enthusiasts around here?

@CardinalFJ60
I had a Thing for about 15 years
Chris Nelson in GJ is and has a restoration business and hobby and a FB group for it

 

[MDH33]

Cold weather lesson:

Sometimes you just forget how old a car battery is and that they don't last as long as they use too and can do really weird things when they go bad. For the life of me I couldn't figure out, after tuning up the 55, why it wouldn't run/idle right!?! It would start, sputter and then die. It would run fully choked but, then die when unchoked.....I checked everything...

Dang, sounds a lot like my Stout! Maybe I'll throw in the new battery from my 40 and see if it runs any better. (When the weather isn't below zero).

 

[SteveH]

I cut my teeth on a '73 Super Beetle my father owned. I was 15 and 16 at the time, and I think I drove it about once. I literally spent more time fixing it than I ever did behind the wheel. Fun bug, however!

 

[CardinalFJ60]

Yep. Landcruisers and air cooled. @Jcbmx is a VW guy, too

 

[CardinalFJ60]

I’m starting mess around with interior of the bus.

 

[Jcbmx]

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Man you need to just come see my Bay before you get too deep.


And for the first 6 months of aircooled ownership, I pushed my ghia more than I drove it....including up hills to turn it around so I could jump in and pop the clutch going downhill 🤣 Adjusting the valves/points is the bottom line to keep a Vw going, carbs can be pretty off and the vehicle will still run

 

[Inukshuk]

EDIT: Sort of a Toyota comment since its for LongCruiser's partition but turns out to be a Ford part: In under an hour a Land Cruiser friend on the FB hive mind here got me in the direction of a WINDOW LIFT MOTOR GEAR (NEW) 45 SPLINE & 9 TOOTH fits: FORD MUSTANG 1969-1993. I took it a step further to buy just the three "plugs" that serve the anti-pinch safety feature for $4.99 on Amazon. Sweet!

"Ford Window Motor Gear Torque Pins" for the fix. Fun!

This is internals of a limousine partition window regulator motor. Entiire part I found on a limo parts website was PART#: INP159. Cost $120.

Good news is that I can buy one. Bad news is it’s $120 and just some internal plastic is broken. It probably has some sort of safety clutch on the inside and it failed after 26 years. Now partition does not go up or down. I want to see if I can find replacement internal part. Maybe some of you smarter about electric motors, and me knows about this. I can probably also fill it full of JB Weld but I’m not sure I’m ready to disable a safety mechanism if that’s what it is. Ideas? Anna says that LongCruiser may have to start earning its share. (Edit - for $5.00 she said LC can stay)

 

[On the RX]

Looks like you have yourself a teeny widdle rotory engine!

 

[PVCsnorkel]

I've been waiting almost 6 years to get a proper bumper built for my 60, but I finally picked up my brand new winch Friday, and Yesterday I laid the first welds down on my first proper bumper build. 1.5 Months until the snow run to get it finished.

 

[riderjgs]

Man you need to just come see my Bay before you get too deep.


And for the first 6 months of aircooled ownership, I pushed my ghia more than I drove it....including up hills to turn it around so I could jump in and pop the clutch going downhill 🤣 Adjusting the valves/points is the bottom line to keep a Vw going, carbs can be pretty off and the vehicle will still run

My wife's restored Ghia, the one we sold to kickstart the Pig build, was her daily driver. Died one freezing January night on the way home from work. Called the friend who did the details on our Cruiser build and still owns a Super Beetle he drove to high school. Out he came, popped the distributor cap, reset the stuck points using a dime from his pocket for a gauge, and the Ghia fired right up. Believe we sold it a few years later without ever having reset the points.
True "People's Wagon." As long as you have a dime to your name.

 

[SteveH]

Passenger side valve cover gasket - '99 LX 470. Fairly easy job - clearly never been done. Very clean inside for 309K miles.

 

[rushthezeppelin]

Passenger side valve cover gasket - '99 LX 470. Fairly easy job - clearly never been done. Very clean inside for 309K miles.

Wow that thing looks great for 300k. Was that the PCV side or no?

 

[Jcbmx]

My wife's restored Ghia, the one we sold to kickstart the Pig build, was her daily driver. Died one freezing January night on the way home from work. Called the friend who did the details on our Cruiser build and still owns a Super Beetle he drove to high school. Out he came, popped the distributor cap, reset the stuck points using a dime from his pocket for a gauge, and the Ghia fired right up. Believe we sold it a few years later without ever having reset the points.
True "People's Wagon." As long as you have a dime to your name.

People also swear by a matchbook to set the points...they're amazing vehicles that somehow get the rep for being unreliable.

 

[rushthezeppelin]

Out with the old in with the new

Just a $17 eBay special. They want $80+ for new OEM in package because they don't make them anymore. It's definitely pleather and the stitching isn't that flush but we will see if it grows on me. At least it's not like the old one where the leather is almost half gone after 275k of shifting.

 

[VoodooBlue_Vixen]

Vixen got a new snorkel. I finally found one for the 4runner that wasn't $800 nor looked like every other one out there. I'm not a fan of the big bubbley looking ones. So as soon as I saw the new one made by Airaid, I jumped on it.
Ordered & installed through Runnin4Tacos, Hugo works there now after the mass exodus from Toytec.
There was just something about drilling a hole in the side of my truck that I couldn't bring myself to do, to install it on my own. Lol.

 

[damon]

the mass exodus from Toytec.

I didn't realize this was a thing?

 

[VoodooBlue_Vixen]

I didn't realize this was a thing?

Toytec was bought out last year by DPI off-road brands. They came in, killed the family friendly environment, screwed up everyone's paychecks, told them to deal with it. There may be 2 or 3 in the exec offices that have held out, but everyone from the sales force & mechanics have absconded.

 

[rushthezeppelin]

Installed a loncky steering wheel cover on the hundred. Really happy with the results and the quality if anyone else was considering this. Great update for about $60 and a few patient hours of work.
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Necroing an older post here. Does anyone know if the wheel on the 100s is the same size as the 3rd gen 4runner? It looks the exact same in photos. The two layers of old leather on mine is all kinds of ratty and annoying and it's even more annoying now that my shift knob is not ratty anymore.