64valiant

no need to be sorry. im about to try get some pictures of inside set ups so i can get some ideas. currently weighing up buying a front of trade me which i know has heaps of holes in it and just weld all the little holes up or buy a full front for a lot more.....

Going to leave this bus here for future me to look at for them sweet graphics

Found this bugger on face book. I'm the 4th owner I think. So been low owner car usually means low kms. Old boy seemed to have brought it two years old and had it till last year. It was so dam high. Stupidly high. When I put the globes on it was higher again tyres are about 18mm higher than the others.

None of the pictures seem to work on the previous post.

So @mark105 came over this arvo and helped out with a few things. Started with putting new brake hoses in cause old rear one was just going on and locking up. So new one for the back and thought while I was there I better buy ones for the front, all on. Almost ran the system dry trying to swap them out. Bleed the system up and sweet. No more problems with the rear brake hose been a egg. Chucked the tyres back on and put it on the ground. Time to start it. Needed a battery and since I'm not using the beetle atm I stole 1 of its batteries. Dam thats the old one. It's kinda flat also so that didn't help it start at all. Better put the other one in then. Yup bit of start ya bastard down the carb and away..... Running on just start ya bastard but running. Slowly sucking the gas up. Wasn't the best a couple of big flames later and some high revs she's idling away. So a pretty productive arvo in the shed. Drives forward and stops. Will keep an eye out for a mint carb see what pops up. Time to get some steel and start filling some holes in the floor. Will take the seats into town find a good upholstery to trim them. Also highly don't recommend doing a key banger in the shed with no tail gate on. Ears hummed for a bit.....

Ahh the tool of choice to remove the tail gate skin was this. Was rather easy tbh. Going to do brake hoses tonight and bleed them up hopefully.

Sitting on the couch at 1030 earlier tonight I thought I should go work on my wagon I'm only sitting here watching lame shit on the net. Into the shed I go. Time to become some what of a panel beater/welder/rust remover Step one. Remove tailgate Step two. Remove plastic window... Had a hidden screw holding it in. Found that and wabam. Step three. Remove mechanism. That was quite easy really. 3 bolts and slid on out. Step four. Remove tail gate skin it self. Step five. Find out what is bog or steel. Step six. Cut existing tags and welded steel from the tail gate and hope like hell you don't wake @Mrs 64valiant up cause it's now midnight and you really want to get the tailgate skin off. (it's pissing down with rain surly it won't wake her up) (I'm dead if I have) Tadaaaaaa. The bottom of the main frame is a bit shaged so I'll go to a mates and fold up a new peace for that and I may get this frame sand blasted while it's apart.

Did you get this thing going from your bad day with it the other day?

Flat tyre? Or a tyre with to much air in it. Tbh I don't have any idea. I'd be messenger from diff to chassis see if it's in the rear. The hole thing got a sag on from all of the torque it has?

ohhh what so your telling me those fresh panel and paint kingswoods in matty b are not as mint as they always say??? trade me has been telling me lies this hole time

matty b fuck the world right?

i went shopping for things around the house the other day and we are getting some chickens so ill probably have some of this laying around to help me out that and some paper a hot glue gun i think i should be able to sort it out.

good enough for me to patch them to get a wof thats for sure. we will see once i hit them with a wire wheel.

the skin and brake lines came to 421.36 nz dollars landed here in hamilton. tail gate skin was 185 plus postage which was 100.

i think ill be falcooning it to nationals this year coming. but we will see. the green sedan needs some work and budget is slim.

So when we brought the kombi I was told that I had to get the wagon going and gone before I can spend any money on it. So I went shopping just last week for a new tail gate and some brake lines. Look what arrived at the work shop this morning. Didn't even get stung by the tax man at customs. Pretty wrapped about that. New skin and brake hoses acquired. I see @Evan is rebuilding carbs for a hobby now days so I think I'll send mine upto him to rebuild cause he loves them so much. SO MUCH EXCITEMENT!!!!!!

trying to find turbo kits for drag day. see if i can make it some what fast.

Oh I had the springs compressed 65mm. Was not dealing with having it half lowered. I did plan on buying spacers for the front, but ive settled with cutting a little bit of the rear to drop it down instead of raising the front. Slight difference in height

So as a few of you probably know. Beth had a little car crash and no longer has a golf. We said we would buy myself a cheap run around and she can have the Subaru and put the rest of the money else where. So I brought a ea coon. I brought it cause previously I had one I brought for the globes and I then sold it. Kept the globes though. I rang a couple of places to get lowering springs... Scratch that Ill get them Compressed at spring town in Frankton. Time to lower the the bad boy again. Had to roll the guards a little bit. Chur to the help of @Mrs 64valiant Still got factory radio in it. The battery went flat last week. Luckily I still had the owners manual with the code in it to unlock it. The interior is in pretty good condition. Hahahahahahaha They sure don't make them like they used to any more. Currently scrolling the net at turbo set ups. And I need to lower the rear a bit more.

So I thought I'd go pick up some more of the crap for the kombi. Thought I had a couple more things left. Turns out I had a bit of crap. Just heaps of little things that I thought I was going to have to buy off another wrecked buss, window mechanisms and random stuff like that. Several boxes of goodies and a petrol tank also. Even got a bit of the old buss. Nice peace of bog that was out if the left rear quarter...... Covering that dodgy repair. Also shit upto the north shore and picked up these sprint stars. Pretty wrapped with them. And the size tyres I'd like to run also.

Got some brake hoses and a tail gate on there way. Pretty excited about this tbh Need to find a carb that's not fucked in my pile and take it for a hoon.

Not really just don't have a picture of mine yet. Both these photos are different style to what mine will look like when done. And as of running gear I think it's time for you to do a little reading figure out how it works. Engine behind diff just like the other air cooled volkswagens