Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Lowering the Rear Torsion Bars - Chart

How Low? How Many Splines?
INNER SPLINE
ROTATION
OUTER SPLINE
ROTATION
SPRING-PLATE
ANGLE
APPROXIMATE
DROP IN CM
+1
-1
50'
0.55
+2
-2
1º40'
1.10
+3
-3
2º30'
1.65
+4
-4
3º20'
2.20
+5
-5
4º10'
2.75
+6
-6
3.30
+7
-7
5º50'
3.85
+8
-8
6º40'
4.40
+9
-9
7º30'
4.95
+10
-10
8º20'
5.50
0
+1
8º10'
5.50
+1
0
6.00
+2
-1
9º50'
6.55
+3
-2
10º40'
7.10
+4
-3
11º30'
7.65
+5
-4
12º20'
8.20
+6
-5
13º10'
8.75
+7
-6
14º
9.30
+8
-7
14º50'
9.85
+9
-8
15º40'
10.40
+10
-9
16º30'
11.00
11
-10
17º20'
11.55
0
+2
16º20'
11.00
+2
0
18º
12.0

The above table was taken from www.bugbabe.co.uk

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Interceptor Bug


The Blount County Sheriff's Office's "new" 1973 Volkswagen Beetle cruiser, pictured on March 22 in Maryville, Tenn, was refashioned after being seized in a DUI case.

Whole story at USA Today

Sunday, June 15, 2008

VDO Kienzle Clock

The "new' clock for my Bug, bought it for approx $5 :)


Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Volkswagen Beetle Headliner Install

How To Install A VW Headliner

Ok .. It's time to install new headliner ... I was truly scared of that action because I never did upholstery stuff ... so ... I accumulated all courage ... bought some vinyl material (3x1.4 m is enough for whole job) and started to plan ...

First thing ... I carefully measured the old headliner ... and made the main piece (to be honest ... my neighbor give me a hand with some sewing ....
just after that ... I ran out to try it on the car ... to be sure I didn't spoiled something

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after that ... I made the copy of other pieces ... and put them on their places



Now I'm full of courage :)

Next day was spent with nice smell of glue and beer, with variety of gripping tools ... trying to tense the damn vinyl to avoid wrinkles...





aaah ... rain cant stop me





and ... the sweet taste of victory and pride :)







There's some more wrinkles left ... but I need to wait for one sunny hot day ... to fix that...
Anyway ... Now I'm enjoying driving my nice and clean bug without that bad smell. The whole job was done in approx working 15- 20 hours ... in my case 20 hours split in two weeks :)

Cheers!

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Volkswagen Beetle Headliner Removal

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Here's how my headliner looks ... nice piece of smelly rotten stuff :(



I just need to get rid of that thing ...
so ... starting with removal of old headliner...

First I measured everything inside car ... just to make sure if anything goes wrong, next - started to remove the old dusty headliner... on some points I just teared pieces off ... cause I couldn't find better way to remove ;)









Of course .. you need to remove windows too ... that was pretty easy job, cause window seals were in good shape ...




and here is it ... the main piece of headliner ... theres couple more ... but I forgot to take photo...



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