The 1966 VW Beetle Forum

Got all the parts in today.. hopefully the bug will be on all fours by the end of the day tomorrow!

Worked all day on the 66... Pulled the rear brakes and rear axle seals.. ordered the axle seals from WW.. then found later when cleaning up the backing plates that the (know that I know the name) leaf springs were missing. (this is the spring metal doober that keeps the brake adjusting stars from mo...

Sounds like timing to me.. check your distributor and make sure its where its supposed to be.

I just bought the WW pans.. have yet to get them in.. but they were 390 a pair then the cost to ship where ever you are..

Awesome!! I can only hope mine turns out this well!!

jmartini wrote:Sounds like it was a productive weekend, won't be long and she'll be on the road again!

Seems like every time I work on it.. the further the actual "road date" gets pushed farther back..

Bought some low back seats for the car today. Had to drive 100 miles to get them.. but they are are still cheaper than buying them locally!

Well, taking the carb apart was interesting.. lost the spring out of the choke section (the cover was stuck on and took some persuading to get off.. as soon as it came off... the spring was a goner! I broke the plastic "cup" that resides inside the choke.. it was a heck of a day.. went out...

Greetings and welcome..

Worked almost all day on the 66. Good news is that I got the car up in the air and looked at the body. The wheel wells look good and the heater channels all the way to the rear fenders look pretty darned good. The carb was a 30/31 PICT from Brazil. The butterflies were frozen / gummed up and would n...

I had to fight the urge to get her running and zoom around town.. decided that this one, I'm going to get right and straight.. I got the WW pans in the garage and an entire brake system.. but now our lovely weather will be triple digits until sometime in the middle of the month and I have to still d...

I always liked the 1200 / 40 horse.. they are easy to work on and will do about anything you ask them to do.

Well, its always sad to see cars we want, turned into things we don't like. A lot of the baja bugs were simply done because of some parking lot mishap and they saw it as easier to cut things off than repair them.

Very nice.. if it the temperatures ever get out of the @$%!$ triple digits, I may be able to work on my car... I HATE this place!!!

The stock mufflers attack to the cylinder heads if memory serves

This is from J Bugs

http://www.jbugs.com/product/113251053A ... -1966-1973