Might interest you or anybody thinking of buying them that mine started out looking like this; http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/BTJustice/spotted009.jpg Each of the black ones had about 4 layers of paint. The resto of them is here; http://www.vwscotclub.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3423 Goo...

I would say keep the Gemini's but then I'm biased;
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Dave

Thanks. New crankcase came today so may be more updates in the resto thread soon.

Nice, Its my fastys younger brother
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Dave

Working absolutely fine for me. Once it reaches pressure you can hear it stop pumping so if it was overwhelming the needle valves it would continue to pump.

I looked into the electric pump when my push rod wore. In the end I used an electric pump from a fuel injected beetle because I had one sitting but a facet red (road) pump was rated perfectly within type 4 tollerances for use on my van. If the car was in use before being stored is it not more likely...

Thank you very much gas305. If you get a chance you can see the full resto here; http://www.vwtype3and4club.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1796 As for a mag feature, there may be something happening soon but need to wait and see. Here is another pic taken a bit more recently; http://img.photobucket.co...

I was chatting to you at Tatton park about this, nice to see you finally got it.
Dave

Not many updates recently as I have been using and enjoying my car in the little bit of summer we have left. Things are still happening however. I have just returned from Cumbernauld with my second set of shiny new bumpers; http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/BTJustice/goodbumpers001.jpg http://i...

I just posted a how to thread on fitting the seat covers if anybody is interested.
You will find it here;

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Dave.

I was going to add this process into the type 3 resto thread http://www.vwtype3and4club.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1796 but to save it getting lost and as it would be out of order I decided to make it its own thread. I ordered a set of TMI seat covers from Karmann Konnection which after a lot of w...

Cheers mate. I had a kinda half hearted attempt at lowering the front on Friday as I hadnt really decided if it was what I wanted. Everything was solid as its probably never been appart and as the pinch bolt on the bottom arm started to round I decided to give up. I just cant bring myself to risk a ...

I have nothing to do tomorrow and was thinking of dropping the front end of my Type 3 by 1 1/2 inches and to give me an Idea, I took pics of the car today with a 1 1/2 inch bit of paper hanging from the highest point of the wheel arch and lowest point of the spoiler. Then in Photobucket I rotated th...

I got a set of West coast metric door seals 2'nd hand off here and was VERY impressed with their quality.
I would deffinately recomend you buy as set if you can find a supplier.
Dave.

I got a bit of time to spend on it yesterday to try and figure out what the problem is with the engine. I stripped it down and noticed 3 possibilities. 1, one of the cam bearings had moved slightly (allthough this may have happened as I split the case). 2, from inside I can see that the anular groov...

Thats some project and looking great, kinda like one of those chub city toys.
Keep up the good work,
Dave.

Thats exactly where the pic was taken and I was at Biggar (Volksfling) all weekend as I was trading as Route 9 Autos.

The pink thing is the top of a litter bin. Typical you dont spot these things until you get home but if I get the chance a bit of photoshop will make it vanish.

Not had an update for a while but things are still happening, just a lot slower than they were. As the old engine is back in and running I have been driving and enjoying the car while its sunny and its going great. I am still going to change the engine as having covered 116000 miles and with compres...

I got mine done for £25 a wheel.

I did a thread showing the process;
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Dave

Bumpers are on and looking good, I still have some issues with the quality but I will deal with that after the Scottish VW show at Biggar in 2 weeks.



Dave.

I got the old engine back in yesterday, it started first time and sounds sweet so maybe I should have been happy with what I had (even if it was loosing power on 2 cylinders). My bumpers arrived this morning and with the money I spent on them I was hoping for better but its too late to return them n...

I have admitted defeat, the old engine is back in the car for just now until I can investigate what is causing the low oil pressure.

I did however swap the exhaust onto the old engine, couldnt leave that sitting in a box after hearing how nice it sounded.

Dave

Im suffering another mojo failure again tonight. I was half way through removing the engine again when the thunder started. Oil pressure is getting worse, even though I fitted a bugpack oil pressure booster kit and changed the oil so there must be a bigger problem. Tomorrow I will be fitting the old...

I went to get parts today but had to order them so they should be in tomorrow. GS&F only list one pressure relief valve so what you betting its the wrong one? I will also collect different oil and change kits tomorrow. As this is a pretty boring update I thought I would share what is quite possibly ...