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Post by owdlvr on Feb 2, 2019 22:48:11 GMT -8
Are center rear view mirrors required on vehicles like this? STan MVA states that if the car has two external mirrors, a centre mounted rearview mirror is not required.
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Post by magikbus on Feb 3, 2019 15:47:54 GMT -8
Good to know, thanks. I had a summer job loading pop trucks for a company in Chilliwack that produced "crush" products. I had to drive 10 ton cube trucks around inside a warehouse to their assigned places and then use a fork lift to load pallets of glass bottles full of pop into the truck via large doors in the sides of the cube trucks. Needless to say there were no rear view center mount mirrors on any of the trucks, thus I got used to using side mirrors for backing up, inside a crowded warehouse, often at breakneck speeds in order to get all the trucks loaded before the parties at Cultus Lake started sometime after 9pm. Never dinged a truck, nor a pallet of pop in the entire time I worked there. Just don't ask what I did with a forklift though. ;-)
btw my "training" to do that job consisted of being taken aside by a foreman and being told I was allowed one mistake without penalty, after that the penalty was being escorted out the door.
Stan
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Post by Volktales on Feb 3, 2019 20:20:17 GMT -8
I would have made that second "mistake" worthwhile...
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Post by owdlvr on Feb 10, 2019 21:35:10 GMT -8
Well, the car is finally on the ground! The front left caliper locked up, which was odd, and when I pressed the pads back to see if I could repeat the issue I found fluid on the rotor. Ordered in a rebuilt caliper (last rebuilt caliper available in Canada!) only to open the box and find a right-hand caliper in the box. Sigh. I did manage to get some rebuild kits, and figured I'd see what I could do. One of the piston's in the left side caliper made it clear as to why I got fluid on the rotor, this is after cleaning it up as best I could: But I have three calipers (technically), and thus six pistons...and I only need four! So I decided to use the new rebuilt caliper on the front right, and tear that one down to gain a good piston for the front left. With the left rebuilt, I mounted both calipers, started to bleed the brakes, and had to tighten the front right banjo bolt. Can you guess what happened? *snap*. #@&$!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I forgot to check the depth of the banjo bolt before installing it, and as my brain was thinking "hey, I wonder if this bottoms out in the new caliper" it snapped. E-Z out couldn't pull it, and I considered using the mill to bump the fitting up to an M10, but realized I'd probably have to go up to an M12 banjo fitting to have enough meat for the threads. Well, crap. I had already split the OLD RF caliper to pull the piston the easy way, and the rebuild kits I had (AP) didn't come with the seal between caliper halves. Ugh. Well, I'm hooped anyways...so I split the new caliper, and measured that seal to see if I would have something that matched. Managed to find something in my random-VW seals box, probably a seal used in a type-4 motor...but it's the exact size I needed, so I tossed it all together and onto the car. "But Dave," I can hear you saying, "that seal may not be brake fluid safe?" True, but I had two of them...so one is sitting in a cup of brake fluid on my work bench, and the other is (currently) holding fluid at pressure in the brake system. 24 hours later and the seal in a cup appears to be the same dimension and brake fluid safe... Swapped out the rear limit straps, including cutting out the bolts and sleeves on the upper mounts as they had all become one-unit together. This required making up some new sleeves on the lathe, and swapping the upper mounts over to metric hardware. Hey, I'm a VW guy and my shop has basically zero in the SAE department! I've got my Fastenal guy putting together an SAE kit for me. Finally, I got under the car and sprayed texturized rubber undercoat over both floorpans and all of my welding repairs. Future me is going to hate myself for doing that, as it sucks to remove at a later date, but should anyone of authority look under the car, it looks safe and well repaired, vs patchworked. The exception to this is the passenger side where I did tack and seal a flat panel over all our patch work, but I simply have to remove the front seat cushion to show the quality repairs from the topside. Thought I almost lost an eye in the process. I was under the car spraying at arms length with just safety glasses on, vs. a full face sheild. I had shifted slightly to get a far off spot, and as my brain was thinking "I should tuck my chin in", a drop of undercoating splashed back and beelined for my eyeball, UNDER the glasses between glasses and cheek. I'm not sure if it hit me right in the eye, or I closed my eye fast enough, but it doesn't matter. BURNED LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE. I got out from under the car and into the house for an eye ball washing session relatively quickly, but it was a scary 30min. Thankfully the black eyeliner I gave myself has only lasted a few days, and my eye seems perfectly fine. Wear your safety gear kiddies. Now that the car is on the ground, I've realized two things. First, I think I need to rebuild the spare front shocks I have an prep them for install. The front feels awfully soft, but more importantly the right side feels softer than the left. Both sides pass the "bounce test" in what I would consider appropriate for a 60's car with oil-shocks. Second, my gut reaction was correct and I've chosen the wrong wheel colour. If I ever return the car to a stock looking midget with windsheild and hub caps, they'll look quite classy. But with the look I'm going with...they're completely out of place. My buddy Warwick called it, even before the wheels were powdercoated, and I should have switched the colour. Black with the caps (currently phototshopped) fits the look really well. I think I'm going to end up pulling the wheels and plastidipping them for a black look. Gotta sit on it for a little bit. Tonneau cover has arrived in Vancouver, but it will be a few weeks before I have it in the shop to do the install. And now, we wait for spring weather to show up...
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Post by Volktales on Feb 11, 2019 19:20:57 GMT -8
Never mind waiting for the spring weather. Do some donuts in the snow!!!
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Post by PICTUP on Feb 12, 2019 13:02:32 GMT -8
IMO you gotta lose the hubcaps for black wheels to work. I thought rally cars don't have 'em probably because they'd just lose'em and they add unnecessary weight. Looks "meaner" without too . I like white wheels, but alternatively I think they need hubcaps for some reason in my mind(maybe too much white considering there is no other white on the car?). Of course aethetics are in the eye of the beholder... Quite the banjo bolt fiasco you had going on there! Why was the one that you snapped off the wrong length? Was it just generic bolt from your FLAPS? I hope the next owner has both SAE and metric tools. In my(former?) line of work it's kinda like running into something put together with Robertson, Philips, and flat head screws. Grrrrrr, lol
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Post by owdlvr on Feb 12, 2019 16:31:22 GMT -8
The addition of the hubcaps with the white wheels makes the car look like a pedal car: But the all black wheel with no caps looks like a winter steelie. These details are very difficult to sort out! haha The banjo bolt I snapped off was the one that came on the car. I did note the new caliper banjo bolt port appeared to be slightly different than the caliper I took off, but didn't really think much of it until the critical moment. I suspect this car is unlikely to have a "next owner", so the mix of hardware is only going to annoy me. Who knows, someone might me an offer this summer I can't refuse! haha
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Post by PICTUP on Feb 12, 2019 20:49:17 GMT -8
The addition of the hubcaps with the white wheels makes the car look like a pedal car: Well it ain't much bigger than one, lol
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Post by CrazyBrit on Feb 12, 2019 21:23:47 GMT -8
My friend in the UK drives one and he's 6'2". It's a later (1978?) plastic bumper model. He looks like one of those kids toys where you push down on the drivers head and it scoots off across the floor. He loves it though and has had it nearly as long as I've had my Ghia. He used to drive a Mini until he upgraded to the Midget.
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Post by CrazyBrit on Feb 12, 2019 21:27:03 GMT -8
BTW. I love what you're doing to this car. The windscreens really work. I vote for Rostyle wheels. What's the bolt pattern? Can you get a set of VW 4 lug Sprintstars on there for something different?
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Post by owdlvr on Feb 13, 2019 14:01:09 GMT -8
4x4", or 4x101.6mm. 13"x4.5" wide.
When you stay Rostyle, not like the 70's wheels on MGB? Eeeeeewwwww
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Post by CrazyBrit on Feb 13, 2019 22:13:14 GMT -8
I guess not then!😆😄
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Post by PICTUP on Feb 16, 2019 12:41:34 GMT -8
Thought I almost lost an eye in the process. I was under the car spraying at arms length with just safety glasses on, vs. a full face sheild. I had shifted slightly to get a far off spot, and as my brain was thinking "I should tuck my chin in", a drop of undercoating splashed back and beelined for my eyeball, UNDER the glasses between glasses and cheek. I'm not sure if it hit me right in the eye, or I closed my eye fast enough, but it doesn't matter. BURNED LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE. I got out from under the car and into the house for an eye ball washing session relatively quickly, but it was a scary 30min. Thankfully the black eyeliner I gave myself has only lasted a few days, and my eye seems perfectly fine. Wear your safety gear kiddies. Dish soap(Sunlight) gives the same effect, except for the eyeliner part. I have always put it down to it being a strong basic solution. I could barely claw my eye open to wash it out after getting a blob directly shot into it. I wasn't wearing safety goggles either, but why should I, I was just using soap for pete's sake! Good to hear you are still a binocular being
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Post by stude on Feb 17, 2019 9:13:21 GMT -8
I used to like the Asphalt based undercoating from Canadian Tire it used to be able to wash off over spray with WD but now it seem harder to get off. Dave I think the car would look good with beauty rings maybe ribbed ones to match the hubcaps. Terry
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Post by PICTUP on Feb 17, 2019 19:26:33 GMT -8
I personally like the look of beauty rings on gloss black wheels with chrome lug nuts. I don't really know why, I just do Maybe that is too "truck-ish" though....
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