Saturday, June 21, 2008

Taking the Rust Bucket apart

Here are a few pics of the tear down. We have taken it completely apart. I wasn't kidding. The more I take apart the more I think my loving wife just wants it gone. When I pulled the engine it was sitting in the driveway and someone called the city on me for a nonoperational car in the yard. So to my loving wife's regret I cleared out the garage and the bug moved in. It has been a slow process and she is getting over it being there, I think. The project this week is my loving wife's car. Not paying attention to her van it ran low on oil and spun a rod bearing so that is keeping me busy. Since I work about 70 hours a week there isn't allot of time to work on things. My neighbors don't like me working on things late making all that noise. Most of them get up at 4 or 5 for work and want there beauty sleep.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

The tear down


I am going to try an add a slide show of the tear down of the bug. I am not to swift on the computer, but I am goint to give it a try. My kids and Loving wife are trying to help me so we'll see how it goes.

My VW Bug

I am restoring this RUST BUCKET. I got it with my son. Hay it was free... We have taken it
completely apart. Motor, body chassis and all. It is in need of a lot of work. The motor was blown so we started to get it ready to tow home. Only about 8 blocks from the house. Put air in the tires and backed it out.
That's where the fun started. My son inside steering went to stop it and pushed on the breaks. Squirting break fluid all over him and the inside of the car. Since the break line of a bug run down the middle of the inside of the car.
Ain't it perrty. There is so much rust on it. When you open the door it drops because the heater channels are rotted out and they are the chassis support.
My dear wife is not terribly thrilled with the whole thing but hopefully it will grow on her.