Itinerant Air-Cooled

The issues are not of the car's own making.

That is a very good point.
After my latest wiring irritation today, I pulled the soldering iron outa the way, closed the door and turned out the lights. Enuff.

It is sad to see a good car neglected. "Do not make a borderline decision based on convenience" said J.M.

Oh another funky thing I discovered: the front impact tube (bolted to the bumper) is different on late '72 on type3s. They cheapened the design by removing the ribbed horizontal vanity structure, and moved the mounting holes. Of course. I know this because Hal gave me his old bumper off his Fastback. All excited to put it on, I washed it in the rain with a BrilloTM but then found it wouldn't work.

..wut?

It finally fit, barely...had to drill 2 new holes though, thru the bumper. The long ago front impact this car suffered slightly skewed the mountings making it very difficult to align the mounting bolts. The impact tube was also slightly bent, which after various attempts was straightened by cheater pipe leverage.
All electrical now works thanks to Gypsie help, except for the turn signals. It does not appear to be the flasher switch, perhaps the wiring to the pass side turn signals is fried because the driver's side does click properly for a time.
Sure looks nice with a front bumper. Almost complete.
The last step is figuring out how the back heater pipes go together. Also have to find a pair of those black accordion heater tubes for under the back seat.

New windshield in and wipers installed! It's almost a car again. Little cosmetics at this point. And the turn signals. But I found some type3 heater accordion things locally, $10 for the pair.
It's weird to sit inside fully enclosed now. First time since '97.

You got that hood latch on there, right?


neal

hambone wrote:New windshield in and wipers installed! It's almost a car again. Little cosmetics at this point. And the turn signals. But I found some type3 heater accordion things locally, $10 for the pair.
It's weird to sit inside fully enclosed now. First time since '97.

Can we see a picture of it now? Like a butterfly emerging from the cocoon.

My brother is test-driving it today, I'll take a couple pix.

Gladys.





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Hey! My brother and family are buying the car. Very cool. And they want to learn how to maintain it too.

Wow! What a difference. Great job Hambone! Bonus is bringing another VW lover into the world ;)

Labor of love man. Only way to explain the long hours of insanity. I hate to see a good car die.

Duuudddeeee, that looks slick!! Very nice job Hammy, very nice job!

That is very nice!

hambone wrote:Gladys.
they want to learn how to maintain it too.

You know who to call if they need the full immersion method ....
Colin

We do offer a QUALITY, affordable, local alternative to the madcap Itinerant! Portland Volks Folks, winging it as I go. Total VW immersion has been good, yes good. GOOD.
But I have been more or less mechanicking full time since March, in between the summer of camp. And of course you were my inspiration to do this in the first place.

Turn signals now work!
Took the switch apart, and with the ohm meter I see that there wasn't contact occurring. Shimmed the brass switch contact, and that was that. It sure is "fun" getting all the springy bits back together without the works flying across the room.
Self cancelling function is shot, oh well. A patch to be sure, but maybe it will last a good while. If not then I now know how to replace it. Weird, most of the car is fresh and young, but that switch looks like it was around the block a few. PO musta really really loved turning. A lot.
And OF COURSE I broke a copper lead to the high beam instrument bulb. Looks like the whole housing must be replaced...screw it, some other day.
Hooked up the footwell heater controls too. Lots of dirt and crap down in there! Better now.
My last big conumdrum is the F.I. speed transition problem. I'm gonna put on a "new" throttle valve switch and see if that helps. If not then I'm driving it into the Columbia.