gonna buy the adaptor bush i need to fit my late box to my 67 chassis on friday...scrounged a gearstick from a mate...still in need of a pedal box and gear linkage...i have another mate restoring a cpl beetles and for a cpl hours work for him he will let me scrounge which ever bits i need

Quote from: cotney05 on March 19, 2014, 05:23:16 AM
gonna buy the adaptor bush i need to fit my late box to my 67 chassis on friday...scrounged a gearstick from a mate...still in need of a pedal box and gear linkage...i have another mate restoring a cpl beetles and for a cpl hours work for him he will let me scrounge which ever bits i need

There the best kind of mates and sure keeps the cost down

yea got few good mates in the dub scene..proper dubbers... not like all these kids nowadays...see a vw badge so think its worth a million quid coz they lowered it and smoothed off something.....

Wouldn't mind popping round in the buggy sometime see how your getting on.

yea mate be good ....stuck at the minute till after the end of the month then the progress will be swift...then ur more then welcome to pop round for a brew

Quote from: cotney05 on March 19, 2014, 11:57:35 AM
yea mate be good ....stuck at the minute till after the end of the month then the progress will be swift...then ur more then welcome to pop round for a brew

Cool, put it my diary for early April. Must make a note to clean the buggy.

not updated my progress lately so thought i better....i sold my daily to fund the buggy and to be fair was on its last legs and a numpty offered my double wot it was worth  the youth of today eh lol...anyway i went shopppin online and brought allsorts of odds and sods for the buggy like...master cylinder and all piping for breaks...extra travel balljoints....beam seals...etc etc..most importantly is my gearbox adaptor mount...that wont fit.....the studs from the chasiss are too short to accept the new mount so tomorow i have to get outside and grind them off and drill them out and replace with 2 longer stainless steel nut and bolts...gonna get balljoints sorted at the weekend and probably all 4 tie rod ends .....still a few bits i need some of them pretty vital like a seat or 2..tyres....speedo....and sortin how to mount steering.... bigger undertaking then i thought this buggy build...and im doin the bare essentials...aiming for a daylight mot

It can be tough at times but time it sounds like your making cracking progress.
Chin up be round soon to see how it's going

cant get these studs to drill out  cheap nasty local hardware shop drill bits just go blunt instantly...so need to invest in some decent drill bits...which is a bit pants as the buggy fund is back down to zero lol ...also gotto get a hole saw set that is capable of  cuttng thru metal so i can relocate the master cylinder hole to drivers side as some 6 fingered numpty who i got the chassis off welded on a brand new framehead ...for a left hooker...tw.t...anyway another minor problem which will cost money i aint got atm....will be making some progress today in the mud  will post some pics tonite

I think that most frame heads come lhd . You do not need a hole saw just mark out the holes on the correct side then drill a series of small holes just touching the line and each other this will take out the middle then finish with a half round file. Do this on the in side and out side for accuracy .

fair point Manxrod i mite look into that..

today got all 4 balljoints pressed in (extra travel jobbies) and sorted out new tie rod ends in both the long and short tie rods....then i had to reassmble the beam which was a messy and frustrating job...thats why i have no pics of todays progress...will take some pics tomoz...will post a cpl from yesterday shortly

few bits i ordered

and a few more

needed a few drain holes

gearbox is out and new mount fitted

closer look at mount for any thats interested...25 quid from vw heritage

these are the gearbox front mount studs that were too short for my new mount so in the process of drillin them out to replace

bit premature but fitted my number plates...not black and whites but a mate made em for a 5er


the only downside to my build is its in the front garden...which is destroying it..im crawling around in mud

Some great progress again today:)
Shame about having to do it in the front garden though, your a better man than me crawling around in the mud.....

its great when christmas comes round again and lots of bits turn up in the post