scooters

this was the first go at it... It got better from here & so did the welding .

most shaping was me bashing stuff over my vice... 

pulled the whole front end out... clean it all up and re bush it... 

springs off for a 75mm lower reset.. 

Thread to give me curry about my yellow dub is now open. 

https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/58875-scooters-1302-yellow-dub/

It's worth a mention that most of this rust is normal on dubs. 

the correct way to really fix this is to pull the body off the pan... But a young family and hanmer in the pipe and little shed room.. Doing a 10/10 job was really not going to fly. 

If I can tie it over for 5 or 10 years then thats ideal.. 

Threw the course of this. I have ended up welding the pan to the body in a few places.. This is not great. But I really do not have the time/skills/tools to make a proper go of it. 

On and out with the rust. Big thanks to @Valiant who talked me threw the process. I'v never done rust...

before we go too deep.. here is a clean late model with the rims I have. 

mine is gonna be nothing like this one... It's too far gone. 

Decided to have a look pull some wheels and gaurds... running boards... make sure everything was gravey.. 

shit kind of when south. 

dead heater rails... 

The build all kind of came about because I wanted to jam some wheels on... 

I expect there will be no other wheels like this in NZ on the ultra crap 4x130 stud. I bought them off trade me and paid a dollar or 2 for the privilege

Discussion thread now open. If you dere.

Before I start.

There will be some shit photos. Taken 1/2 in the dark with my old S3 sorry. 

This is also not a serious car build. This car has been my dads for 15+ years. Picked it up wedged into some gorse bushes near Cable Bay Nelson. I think he paid $750. Dads had dubs his whole life I think in 2004 he got rid of the first car he ever owned (67 bug) So suffice to say i'm not going to be without them for some years yet. 

I think about 15 years ago we rubbed it back and painted it a very loud yellow.. I am told the colour was my choice (wish I chose better) but that was a fair few moons ago I would have been early teens. 

So the first pic is likely 9 years ago... my grandad my wife and the yellow dub. & me !

tagging interested partys now. cheers guys. 

@Willdat?

@yoeddynz

@moparmuppet

Im not much of a truckwit. 

The bloke who owned it was telling me.

So I dont really know. 

Its 1999 model. Last of them if that helps anyone. 

2 hours ago, cletus said:

Also forgot to mention

Make sure the seat of the bolt matches the wheel

Pics dont work any more

but I think you had a picture of a ball seat bolt, if you put those on wheels designed for a normal straight taper bolt, you'e gonna have a bad time. 

 

Also finding ball seat bolts with the correct radius to match wheels can be a pain in the bottom.

thanks Clint, I am very lucky these old mags were made for porsche 914.. but fits vw ball wheel bolt spot on. I however need to change to longer wheel bolts. 

Thanks 

 Thanks everyone .

52 minutes ago, 00quattro00 said:

You will need longer bolts, pretty much all vag cars after the mk2 golf are m14, longer for alloy wheels, dont forget to change back to the short ones for the steel wheels as the longer ones will catch

Thanks mate. We are talking vw bug 1302s .

I just went to the shed and checked about 5.5 turns in the alloys till tight. meh .. just to piss me off . 

@CUL8R 

thanks mate. There is no flange on the rotor in my case pain in the ass to line up.  but...... the rims have counter sunk steel insirts that fit the wheel lug spot on. That centers it. 

Just now, Nominal said:

Pics?

sure sorry. 

Do I need longer wheel lug bolts ?? Whats the measure of good or no good. 

I'v got a i'm hoping easy question. 

I'v switched my rims over from steelies to old school alloys. In doing so i'v noticed the alloy rims are far thicker than the steel rims so the wheel lugs don't poke threw as much. 

Whats the good oil on how far a wheel nut or lug needs to go in.. Iv got 14mm wheel lugs and they poke threw the alloys exactly 14mm too... So in my mind the 14mm stud is biting in as much as the width of the lug. 

lugs are VW bug 14mm x 1.5mm lugs not nuts 

Or.... should I be counting turns..... like they need to do up at least 7 full turns... ? 

just want to make sure im not as risk of over stressing the lugs and threads./ wheel falls off. 

how awful 

On 3/20/2018 at 11:27, yoeddynz said:

Oh and we owned an early 900 for a while. Great cars to drive. Had trouble sorting out the clutch hydraulics though.  Weird arrangement. 

I worked for Holden in ozz we had the Saab franchise as well. I did a clutch on on. Would be a ok job with all the service tools but had nothing. But the whole North South backwards engine thing is a real ball ache. Actually I think I just slipped a new friction plate in and called it quits. Because the gearbox would not move enough and the customer didn't want to pay to have the engine out. Still not real sure how it all works. 

does this tickle anyones pickle ? 

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/motorbikes/motorbikes/cruiser/auction-1565706666.htm?rsqid=1f523b25c0c9493389835663f67a820f

sold by a John Holmes no less.