hi, yes, mine is as you discribe. i'm interested in yours if its intact. its not worth trying to restore mine if i can buy one at a reasonable price. can you pm me how much you want for it?
many thanks. steve

well there is actually a west coast metric sticker on it. i'll get a pick of it and we can all have a look. just in case i'm making a mountain of it. i'm more agravated by the way its been kept in the packing. everyone knows if you want a bit of rubber to last you don't put a bit of string round it!...

well i now have this tailgate seal. its about two thirds of the bulk of the seal that came off. i haven't fitted it yet but on looking at it, it will probably work. its a sponge seal and is quite compressable. the only thing is, if they had just rolled it up and put a bit of tape on it to stop it un...

well you have quite a bit to do there, but as the others say, when you get going into it you'll be supprised how much you can achieve. you have the same rot on the lower part of the car that i had. its important to support the car well as if you remove too much metal at once and weld in new stuff yo...

well iv'e finally cracked it! after a lot of time on the web and a day taking the steering column of the car and stripping it. as i can only find information on the beetle i can only quote on that. i have the centre shaft with the wire going down the middle but i also have a mod that was done on the...

here's a pic of a late bug steering wheel. you can see the slip ring that the feelers contact to. this is a much better idea to get both the wires back to the horn without all the coplications of any rotating parts! it would be a good idea to use the later system but then there are problems with fit...

the 12v pos wire goes from the fuse box to the horn. the other wire on the horn goes to earth via a switch (horn button). so the horn itself is totally isolated. its been achieved a few ways over the years. i found a link to wolfsburg west via a google imput of "beetle horn curcuit" and they have a ...

hi dave. yes, the 61/62 bug had an insulated centre shaft and an insulated outer shaft/column. the indicator unit had sprung feelers mounted on it that kept in contact with the underside of the wheel. this enabled the use of the outer part of the column to be used as the return wire. and thats where...

hi dave. thanks for the help and link to that diagram. thats most clearest one i have to date. iv'e been looking at this problem and contacted a few mates and gleened a bit of info, plus the exellent link to a diagram that dave has kindly given me. there has been a few different ways of getting the ...

so it would seem that i have a few thing missing then? all i have is the wire that goes up the centre of the shaft to the isolated horn bar. the other end of the wire comes out at the clamp end of the shaft. there's a row of contact tags at the column mounting bolts. its a case of working out how to...

hi. yes, its me again! i'm getting close to the finnish of this major cleanup of my type3 squareback and as i'm fitting all the small bits back onto the car there is going to be a few things that i won't remember how they go back on. the subject today is the horn circiut. i have diagrams but it does...

yes, thats right, except that after making the jig i took the brackets off the late frame and welded them into the early frame. its a lot of work though.
steve

hi veeman. iv'e just done this conversion on my early square. i'm fitting a type4 motor and i wanted to keep the framehorns to add some stability to the engine location. i bought a late type3 rear frame and from that, made a couple of jigs from it before removing the "A" arm brackets. i also robbed ...

here's one of these plastic clips. on a closer look only one part of the clip is open. the other part is closed and it begs the question as to how you get one on there as the feet have been pressed on. there are eight of these and i need four. the threads on the bolts are not metric but i will id th...

a couple of years ago i was looking through the threads of a well known forum and spotted a thread about a guy who's type three had been a victim of a bit of heavy parking by his neighbour. the car was fitted with some glass wings one of which was just in so many bits as a result of this minor impac...

hi pete. well the first thing (when i get them out) will be stainless steel bolt set to replace the rusty mild steel ones. that will be easy but its the plastic lug fittings that the bolts pass through that have gone brittle with time. i havent broken one yet but looking at whats happening when i pu...

hi all. does anyone know if i can sourse any parts for the desmo roofrack? i have a full length rack for my square and its in pretty good condition overal except the screw-heads have lost thier galvanize coat and are a bit rusty. also, the plastic covers that go over the feet are missing that protec...

iv'e ordered one . i'll report back on quallity when iv'e fitted it. if its like the bonnet seal that i also bought from them it will be fine!

i think you need about 4 mts to go round all four parts pete. hight of the seal is about 19mm which is why iv'e not bought anything iv'e got samples of yet. they aren't high enough. it needs that "C" groove in it, uppermost to run the rain away rather than entering the car. if its possible to produc...

hi mike. i'm getting close to finnishing my square and one of the things i'm having a problem finding is that tailgate seal! i have whats left of the old one but although its still in one piece its a bit on the crabby side. if i find a source for them i'll put it on here. the glue is the dunlop thix...

i still think you should ask the person who is selling the wheels to look at them and give you the ET number that is casted in the wheel itself as i think they may have made them in different offsets.
i remember these were on the market in the 60s so try and find out how old they are as well.
steve

hi danny. you will have to find out what the offset is. it will be in the casting on the wheel. you will be looking for the ET then a number. someone on here will know what the standard offset is and possibly if you can use those cosmics. good luck

steve

if i were you i would change the flexies as a matter of course. they arn't expensive and it probably could do with a fluid change as well. i had a problem with the rear brakes on my square and my bay bus all in the same week. when i got to the bleeding on the square i coudn't get any fluid out of th...

if you are buying a late beam setup, make sure you get the steering rods with the track rods on as well, as the later cars had a larger taper on the rod ends to fit the steering arm on the later hubs. iv'e just done this on my 67 square. its a good idea to buy a later duel circuit master cylinder. i...

that rear seat back. i have a black basketweve example in pretty good condition.
steve