Popular Post 64valiant Posted July 28, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2017 Well it all started with getting along with the guys at the vdub shop. They had the low light there for a we while had been stripped and sand blasted. The owner was been hard to contact and wasn't doing much. I made a silly offer and got no where. In the end they wanted it gone. Several emails from me to the owner ended up no where. Aiden and I had been talking at the vdub shop trying to help him get it out of his way so he emailed saying sorry we have had enough and have pushed it out side. Saying good luck with the sale it's just going to rust. I then got a email back from the kombi owner saying sweet we have a deal you can pick it up when ever. Meanwhile aiden hadn't put it out side was still in side. Anyway picked it up today. This is pretty much beths kombi as I'm not aloud another car. Got to many bills to pay. She had been sitting a while in the same spot collecting some dust. Token petrol station picture of the new car. And now I collect rusty volkswagens in my spare time I had priced up all the patch panels before going in with the deal so this shull be fun. I also have to finish my valiant before I can start on this. We will see how that goes. Chat about it over here 36 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted July 30, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 30, 2017 Ah so yeah most definitely will be making this thing a lot lower. Couldn't fit it in the shed without letting the front tyres down. Here are some more photos of the rust/not metal. For example on what a peace I brought. This back left 1/4 is pretty terrible. Some one has had fun filling it with bog before. Bottom of the sliding door Yeah... Some one must of drove into a nice pole at one stage. Bottom 6 inches like normal. Just easier to replace the hole front. Yeap. Few holes in this part. Just looks pretty when I put a torch under the floor in the dark. See heaps of stars Drivers door. Just behind the drivers door. Passengers door Behind the sliding door. And the bottom of the front window. I'm going to be a great welder or grinder by the end of this. 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted August 28, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 28, 2017 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. 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted November 5, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 5, 2017 When you become a customer of your customers. Guy booked in his bug to get the very done. He is also the guy who imports and sells a bunch of kombi and volkswagen peaces and happens to have a full front with light buckets on his trailer when he dropped the bug off. What a great start to the week. Mondays aren't always bad. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted March 3, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 3, 2018 And then there was two. Pulled it out if a barn about 15mins out of katikati Dont know what I'm going to do with it but the price was like 18x less cheaper than the 1st one. 17 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted July 12, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 12, 2018 Havnt done a thing on this but Ive been getting some welding practice in as I think I'm going to need it. Built me a welder trolley for my welder today as I was ment to be home sick and resting but yeah boss life. Now ill bring this bad boy home and get cutting and welding a suppose. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted July 14, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2018 Oh I also got some mags for this in a deal full of volkswagen parts and a couple of volkswagens that I'm slowly selling parts from. Set staggered set of BRMS 15x4.5 and 17x7 Should look ace tucked under the arches. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted July 29, 2018 Author Share Posted July 29, 2018 Gave the shed a bit of a clean and a re arrange last night. Make it easier to work on the kombi and have a bit of working space. Was able to put heaps of panels for the oval up in the roof and stored the two floor pans under the oval. Got a bunch of extra fiberglass panels I'm going to try pawn off to sluggy. So much more room for activities. Owned it for a year so thought I'd better get onto now. Xmas is going to roll around pretty fast. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted July 31, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 31, 2018 Have picked the fabric for this buss. Dark green hounds tooth and Black vinyl. Going to do green and black decals on the side of the bus to have some flow with the random ness of colour. Also less likely to stain in this colour on the seats And the bed...... 7 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted March 3, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 3, 2019 So yeah I skipped a few stages of this build. We painted it white. Put the steering wheel on the other side and a few other things like smaller stud pattern and put a westfalia on it and in it as well. Edit : we brought another low light kombi. 23 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted March 3, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 3, 2019 So what really happened was I was scrolling trade me Tuesday night after work. Kass said he saw a kombi he liked on there. I continued to see what was on there and came across this. It was listed for 5k no reserve and a buy now of 7k. (a kombi in our price range) I immediately forwarded the link to @Mrs 64valiant followed by a phone call. She looked at it briefly and said give him a call and see if we can view it on Sunday. Proceeded to call him and date was arranged. I then started to get my hustle on and try sell some of my other things. A guy had only messaged me in the weekend wondering if I wanted to sell my oval. Well I sure as hell do now. Boom sorted a price and hell yeah. Wednesday morning wake up go to work and do a few things and check trade me. Shit cunt fuck. Some one clicked the buy now. Only Tuesday we didn't quite have the full amount of money to make anything happen. So thought wonder what the account looks like now. Ahh crap yup some bills had been paid and well I could have now afforded the kombi that was now sold. Ahhh well. Better luck next time. Proceeded to be upset and have my dreams crushed and the rest of it all. Drive to Hawke's Bay and had a hell of a good time and witnessed some friends get married. Also brought cone4u numberplate cause well the kombi didn't go to plan so I could lest drown my sorrows in the p plate for my ice cream trailer. This morning we started with unloading all the bbq trailers and went on our merry way when as I was about to drop the trailer at @Archetypes I get a txt. Hey man the buyers have backed out are you still interested in the kombi. A couple of phone calls away and well yup off to Auckland. 1st stop was to drop the oval off at the sellers place that I sold it to. Was a bummer cause I had already sold this and only selling to buy the kombi that had already sold. But hey things happen for a reason right. Next stop the kombi. The owner lived in Melbourne so was yarning to his dad and trying not to get to excited about it all. A phone call was made to his son and boom, money transferred and well time to push in on the trailer now. Here are the photos from trade me. Fucken excited. 17 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 Morning smoko time. Time to unload everything that was jammed in side it for the trip home. Then assembled it all to home is should be 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted March 6, 2019 Author Share Posted March 6, 2019 Had Geophy follow me to drop off a customers kombi after work and then we sat in mine. I then suggested he catch the window as I pop it out. Surprise surprise we found this orange stain under the rubber. A quick wire wheel and scotch and well that's that problem fixed. Let's see what this weekend and the following weeks bring. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted March 21, 2019 Author Share Posted March 21, 2019 I had this engine floating around from my beetle purchases last year some time. i thought lets see if we can put that in and get it running and see what else is needed to be done. Well wiring needs to be done. Just looked at complete replacement looms. not badly priced. and ill pull the starter motor out of my bug and swap it into this since i wont be using the bug any time soon. would be pretty cool to get away in it over Easter weekend just locally but we will see what happens and how things go. got some 2nd hand break calipers for it as well, they are better than the ones ive got on it. while i was trying to sell @Hot Dog Flavoured Water some vw parts i asked what size tyre he ran on his buss and went and brought some to see how much slam im going to need to acquire. looks like i need to acquire about 100mm well and truly so i brought some adjusters while i was at the vdub shop. might try swindle @flyingbrick into doing that for me while i have some one elses tig welder here atm. that will do for now. might even give beach hop a miss to get this thing going. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
64valiant Posted March 24, 2019 Author Share Posted March 24, 2019 Well today was successful. But glad I was able to fix the rust and weld up a few holes. Beth and I said yes to a price on rebuilding a new engine from scratch and put a bunch of money down on that. Which has been good cause I've been selling things here and there and what not. Sold the chrome BRMS that I wanted to keep for my bus but ahh well. Just this week I've sold 2900 in two sets of rims. Paul has a new case and everything in Stock so weekend after beach hop we are going to build that. Brought a empi short shifter and some pre loved front break calipers so will install that stuff. Also got a new starter motor...... I didn't want to remove the one out of the beetle cause the second I go doing that I'll regret it when I go to do some work on it. Can't go robbing parts of other cars. That's a no no. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted March 27, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 27, 2019 Hell yeah. as much as i was not happy about the smashed window im so happy. the clean window is so good. such a better look with out the tint strip on it. very un happy but happy with the result. so brilliant. kass wanted to stay late and work on the buss and get it going as he has been working on his BSA during work hours, not that fazed but give some get some right. so we chucked the new second hand breaks on the front. new hoses and then moved to the rear. the first job was to fix the oil leak. we are running an adapter to suit the kombi engine mount off the oil pump and casing. we stripped the thread on the bottom to bolts and i said to kass fuck we should do that, his response was like nah it cant be that bad dw about it, lols. kinda a pain in the ass. had to take the exhaust off and a bunch of other things. so yeah broke the other exhaust getting it off and well hey lets just fit this one instead. while we done that i also got into the rear breaks. Fuck me thats right, hub nuts........ 1.7 meter bar with a 46mm socket welded to the end piss easy mayte. oh hello we have a few missing peaces here. lucky i brought stuff from the vdub shoppe and it'll go straight in right. oh nice the pistons and shoes i brought are the wrong ones, so off we go back to the vdub shop and get the correct ones. its also missing a few peaces so ill scavenging through the scraps and wrecks to find the missing stuff. thats enough for today. hopefully we can get it sorted and drive it next week. 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted April 9, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 9, 2019 So last Saturday i headed out to the v-dub shoppe to make a start on my engine. Paul was kind enough to work late and help me out. This is my engine and everything that is ment to go with it. inc the two boxes on the floor. I get all the bitch type jobs, clean this, clean that, and yeah clean that as well. so start with cleaning the crank. a little scotch in the cleaning tub and then we rinse it off with hot water. want to know why we use hot water? well hot water evaporates and doesn't leave any residue and wont rust. unlike cold water. now that that's done onto the casing. his has been machined out to fit the larger barrels and pistons to make it a 1776 so yeah lets crack it open see how many peaces of raw material i can find. oh hello. this stuff has gone everywhere. see if you can spot the peace tucked away here. that little peace of silver on the oil pick up is what you are looking for, well now that they are all cleaned up out side to wash these down with cold water. cause these are not steel and they wont rust away. hey presto we looking good now. 1st things 1st. dizzy gear in. i didn't snap a photo of this but here is one off the net. with that lubed up and in place the dizzy goes in over top. while i was putting that in Paul was putting the bearings in and making sure they lined up and marking them to make our life easier for when the crank slides in. i have also slid on 6 little rubber gaskets over the main bolts. bearing 1st. cam gear next, with some heat slid on over and sitting in place with its key way in next is distributor drive gear. my key way was a little lose, luckily we were in the right place and a few steps to the left was a container with a bunch of them in, found one that fitted better. some heat on this and on it went. bearings for the rods and on they go now. no photo of this stage my hands fill and doing other things but lets drop that on in in she goes and lined up Pauls pink dots and dropped the cam in as well.so far the only things out of the old engine are the gear peaces on the crank and the dizzy, even the dizzy drive was in a pile of other parts to the left of me that Paul just pulled out of old stuff. The rods and cam are from another purchase of parts i ended up with including the bearings and all the gaskets.Next Paul swears at his employees for leaving his gasket goo with out a lid and we put some goo on the casing and he drops the other side of the block on. finds some nuts that should come with the casing and he torques them up. its bloody handy having a store room the size he has, off i went find myself some lock nuts, re stock the draw in the engine build section. they get thrown at the engine and torqued up but to a smaller amount. sump on and well bake to the store room to find some dome nuts for the sump plug and the mesh for in side that, and a stud kit for the fuel pump, oil pump and a few other things. actually here is a photo of the kit, thanks google ahh while this was up side down we also dropped these in. which i learnt the other day is a duel pressure relief, vw casings come out duel and single, only early ones come out single. ended up watching a YouTube video of how it works and where they are. if you want to learn here is the video i watched it was a pretty good Saturday learning and building the new engine. last night i headed in and done some more work. removed all the head studs while Paul was on the phone and cleaned them up, he then came down and gave me some shit about how i didn't get the fly wheel and shims ready for him, few seconds later he had them, he worked out the end float and put some shims in allowing some small amount of thou. he was also trying to calculate out loud and man that shit was confusing as fuck to me. with that all sorted i now have the fly wheel and we are off to get skimmed and it has a really nasty lip where the rear main seal would usually sit so ill take that to geophfey and get him to take the lip off that. all in all shes been a great few days so far. 30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted April 17, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 17, 2019 yea sorry this build has gone faster than my spare time to write out the next post. so for the mean time i would like to show you what you can achieve in 11 days after work doing a few hours here and a few hours there. A huge thanks to Paul. now dont worry i will go into detail on what we have done and how i went about it all, but i feel the need to show you guys and gals this. Cheers team, we might just be driving George the kombi over the Easter & Anzac break. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 64valiant Posted April 26, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 26, 2019 When we purchased this kombi i said to myself and to others I would ideally wanted to be able to drive it over the 10 day break of Easter and Anzac. We'll tonight was the 1st time it's probably driven since I can only guess 2000 when it was last registered. Its been such an achievement and I really happy with the goal. 54 days it took from purchase. It really shows if you put your mind to it you will make it happen. Thanks to those who have helped so far, you guys are the best. 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mrs 64valiant Posted April 26, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 26, 2019 While this was all happening last night I was at home sick. Greg was only allowed to drive it in and out of the workshop without me there. Today we will go up and down the service lane......with massive smiles on our faces. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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