1965 vw beetle called bertie

Hey mate, just found this thread after the heads up today.

Looks like a nice little project. It doesn't look too bad in the pics, but I am sure it has some hidden delights just waiting to be uncovered.

If you need a hand let me/us know!

Lewis

p.s. not bored at all. looking forward to seeing how you get on.

cheers guys

morning mr pops

update time

well dropped the engine out yesterday and a curse word to get out, as mine not standard i had to strip all the exhaust off and once i got engine on floor i could get the body high enough to get engine out from under rear apron. but finally did it with a lot of grunt and pallets

so here the oily hole where the engine used to fit

and the engine ready to be stripped

now questions how much of a rebuild do i do on the engine? do i strip and replace everything all seals piston rings etc etc or as it runs and dosnt smoke to bad just clean it up?

i broke alot of bits yesterday mainily three jacking points and half the chassis ooops

his new home had a lick of paint to so just work benches to source

well a weekend spent on my own has yeild alot of progress sadly not what i had planned but saved me sitting at home doing nothing

well in the space of 45 minutes i stripped the engine :lol:





now all looks good been running very rich so lots of carbon so can i scrape this with a plastic scrapper?

all its needs is a decoke i ll port the head whilst there and new valve stem oil seals :-D

engine fully stripped and painted awaiting gasket set (no pics as there on my home pc)

sunday i spent stripping the loom and dash out



and then started splitting he body from the shell eeek what a job after three fires i finally got the front of the pan seperate from the body just the back to do now




As you can see pretty rotten but will keep me entertained for a bit

haha doesnt look supermegabad, just stillsneedslotsofworkbad hahaha

another update
engine stripped and cleaned and painted





this is the tube that supples the engine formt he carb is ment to be broken like this



took the doors off and braced the body

one door is full of filler

then set about splitting the body form from the pan and oh dear it has terminal rust and mmmm more filler :yay big thanks to namless for his help and the bracing cheers dude

cheers mate

hey Keefy

all the fllor bolts just went rounf and round so i cut the floor out and the body at the back did eventually split just the front to pop apart. i am enjoying it as never done anything this major before but i feel i ask dumb questions at time as i don't have a clue lol

a little tip about the inlet manifold
the heat riser pipe is notorious for blocking which means you get carb icing problems, the options are
1 clean the riser
2 fit an imdu (inlet manifold deicing unit?) electric heater below the carb
3 fit twin carbs
ttfn glenn

cheers for the advice guys i tried to rebuild the engine today but some one put one of the big end shells on back to front so gonna buy new shell they have printed on the Uo.25 is this + 25tho?

any way update
well after alot of straining hammering and thinking i finally split the body from the chassis


i then carried the body accross to the corner of the yard and wrapped it but not before examming the root


all wrapped up

next to inspect the chassis and its better than i thought





more soon

matt