Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

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Re: Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

Post by Mr Blotto » Tue Feb 02, 2016 7:33 pm

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Hi Colin - I think the front emblems for late Westfalias from the factory where white, not chrome. Not sure you care, or if I am right...

That Westy is lucky to have crossed paths with you!
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Re: Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

Post by Amskeptic » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:07 pm

Mr Blotto wrote: Hi Colin - the front emblems for Westfalias were white, not chrome. Not sure you care,
Oh, I care. What the h*#%!. How on Earth? All the Westies I have visited . . . all these weeks of owning this one . . . all that Bus Depot shipping. And it is supposed to be white? So, tomorrow, I shall get the old emblem and try to sand off/scuff the chrome and paint it white.
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Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
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Post by airkooledchris » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:13 pm

I always loved the original Westfalia pop top canvas with that row of tassels hanging from the front.
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Post by asiab3 » Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:36 am

Any ideas what those tassles were for? Wind abatement? Decoration? Satellite TV reception?

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Re: Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

Post by Sylvester » Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:26 am

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Mr Blotto wrote: Hi Colin - the front emblems for Westfalias were white, not chrome. Not sure you care,
Oh, I care. What the h*#%!. How on Earth? All the Westies I have visited . . . all these weeks of owning this one . . . all that Bus Depot shipping. And it is supposed to be white? So, tomorrow, I shall get the old emblem and try to sand off/scuff the chrome and paint it white.
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Re: Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

Post by phaedrus76 » Wed Feb 03, 2016 1:32 pm

As Sylvester's photo shows, late Westy emblems were off-white and plastic. The color is Pastel White, just like the bumpers. Beware there are repros out there cast in pure white.

Colin, I thought you just preferred the shiny chrome emblem, so didn't want to be an ass by saying anything before.
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Post by hambone » Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:08 pm

White plastic vs metal chrome...sounds like a late Bay.
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Post by Bleyseng » Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:20 pm

yes, the chrome VW just ruins the whole Westy resto for me ;). Colin needs to fix this wrong!
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Re: Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

Post by Amskeptic » Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:09 pm

It shall come to pass . . . after I get the sliding door back on.
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Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
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Re: Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

Post by SlowLane » Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:25 pm

Okay, so I hate to bring this up, but shouldn't the wheels be white as well? :blackeye:
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Re: Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

Post by Bleyseng » Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:18 am

SlowLane wrote:Okay, so I hate to bring this up, but shouldn't the wheels be white as well? :blackeye:
No, silver rims
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Re: Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

Post by hambone » Thu Feb 04, 2016 11:07 am

Just leave the door off you get better ventilation.
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Re: Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

Post by Mr Blotto » Thu Feb 04, 2016 11:08 am

phaedrus76 wrote: Colin, I thought you just preferred the shiny chrome emblem, so didn't want to be an ass by saying anything before.
You calling me an ASS ??? :geek: :geek: :geek:
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Re: Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

Post by SlowLane » Thu Feb 04, 2016 3:47 pm

Amskeptic wrote:
weisswurst wrote:
Amskeptic wrote:
When I hit the Georgia border, temperatures had dropped below freezing and the winds were mighty gusty.
Colin
Oh no! I made it back from my trip and found this in the building!! :pale:
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Dunno if you are a cordless tool aficionado, but it appears that most of the big cordless tool makers have added battery-heated jackets to their line-ups. Might help, but they're a bit pricy ($200 range, plus the battery and charger if you haven't got one.)
I just noticed this after drooling over some nice Makita cordless tools.
Blotto wrote:You calling me an ASS?
No-one here is judging you, man, but you did sell your Westy. :blackeye: Any recriminations that exist are likely to be of the self-inflicted type.
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Re: Naranja Westy Refresh Wrap Up

Post by Amskeptic » Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:21 pm

SlowLane wrote:Okay, so I hate to bring this up, but shouldn't the wheels be white as well? :blackeye:
No, ha haHA haaaaaaaa, no. ALL perforated drop disk wheels were silver from the factory, the thinnest silver ever painted, it would rub off the Rabbits after three car washes.

I am painting my emblem with Rustoleum Fusion plastic white because it is a plastic emblem and it is close enough to L90D, and I hope relatively rock chip resistant.

Meanwhile:

Rust Eradication
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Horrendous rust under the window along the sliding door track and under the track where a half-rear fender was barely welded on, smashed and dented, and burned weld joints and bondo'd to better let the rust build up:

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I spun up the dremel cutting wheel and went to town:

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Painted the undersides of the side covers, laboriously removed the paint overspray on the beading and the sliding door seal:

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Rebuilt the Clavinova CTsomething8. It had suffered a traumatic coffee spill some long time ago and the keys were gumming against each other:

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Discovered three hours after this shot and a zillion screws that dog hair ruins the contact strip millisecond comparison circuitry enough to FULL VOLUME the F sharp which totally ruined my efforts to learn Cold Play's Clocks.
Tore it back down, vacuumed the contact strip, and it now plays very nicely:

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Oh yeah, Overspray Eradication. That yellow hinge has irritated me every day I've spent with this car:

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Followed some online sliding door hinge rebuild tutorial:

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Now the rear and the right side of the car are almost factory-looking.
Colin

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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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