I'm starting my restore thread because a few family and friends have been asking me how i'm getting on with my German mistress, also due to this being my first restore I might need a bit of advice from you guys so a few pics to show where i'm at should help To recap its a 78 Kombi, an abandoned project found in a garage 60 miles up the road. 169k on the clock, fitted with a 1.6 AS single port tho says 2.0 on the reg. Collection from PO Few pic's of body work and subframe
Off to the shot blast Made this to keep the shot out of the inside of the tubes After shot blast.. clean and paint all the SB steel Remove valves and start cleaning 35 years of crud.
Defiantly could do with being re-lapped Small grinding stone took a lot of the rough stuff off, then used fine sand paper. Learn to love the wire brush Few before and afters Meanwhile back at the ranch.......... Removed both cross members
Started removing the floor And dodgy repairs Removed both rear top hats and sections of the front. Also removed Heat XC conduit as i plan to fit aux heater.
Not sure what most of those 'engine bits' are - but it looks like you're doing a cracking job cleaning it all up. Well done that man!
Bit more engine work Lapped in piston tubes and valves useing a drill (leave the stick spinning to Ray Mears) Painted the block in high temp paint
At a catch 22 with this restore, work at the body on my days off or do overtime to pay for the parts so I"m taking the overtime while i can get it, but at least I'm getting somewhere with the engine Fitted new rings then heated up pistons on hot plate slightly Tubes fitted Thread-locked and fitted studs Heads on with new push rod tubes Torque heads down New oil pump fitted Set tappets The bolts supplied with these covers were far too big, starting to see a pattern with all this aftermarket gear
Bult up alternator Oli cooler on Head shrouds Went for the pertronix flamethrower coil And accuspark plugs Changed the dizzy to Accuspark electronic ignition and fitted the rest of the bits with new gaskets Getting there, hopefully bench run it soon
Coming along nicely mate Word of warning though those transaparent dizzy caps cause all sort of problems
First post in a good while, managed to lose my camera (and a little piece of myself) in Ibiza, so these pics aren't the best quality. So the engines finished and is in storage, lost all them pics unfortunately. I now have the gearbox is work cleaning it up Back home i started removing all the waxol from the chassis The plan at the start of this build was to have someone do the welding for me but after a guy came out and made a b@llox of a crossmember i decided i was just going to buy a welder and do it myself. So i done a bit of research, adjusted my budget a few times and ended up going for this machine I got a few hours practice in with different gauges of metal till i was happy before going near the bus Gear box support beam Inner torsion bar
