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I made that shifter rod as straight as I could. Then I saw a photograph of a stock one which has a dog leg or joggle in it. Somebody said the joggle is to clear the parking brake mounts. But this isn’t a shortened pan. My shifter moved back but the brake lever did not. My brake is forward of...

They don’t gave to be some fancy shape. I just drew the classic rocker shape. They can just be rectangles with rounded corners. They can have extra holes for adjustment. In case you get the length wrong. I cannot guarantee this will work but you still have a couple days to try it out.

The plastic bushing is like a grommet with a wire clip. About $3 each. I bought a new one last year. This clip was too tight & the plastic was split long years ago. The area under the bushing was pretty rough. Here I have burnished it mercilessly. It will be OK with some grease. Not only...

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I was hoping you could build a pair of rockers that would flip over like this, to increase your leverage by a factor of about four, over the piston.

Here you can see how much more I had to saw off of the left side of this bracket. The right side was very easy by comparison, and the improved design saw made a great difference in the amount of time and effort required to do the left. I didn’t clean out the parking brake cable guides yet. This...

Today I finally got the accursed shifter rod out of the VW tunnel. The rod was shortened with a steel slug welded in. On one side only. ;( Clearly this was done while the rod was inside the car, perhaps because they had already assembled it all too far. The whole front suspension suspension...

I got all 4 remaining tubes out of the tunnel. I was glad to see them go. They didn’t leave willingly. The welds were larger on the 2nd set. I made an improved saw which eased the cutting somewhat. The top welds were solid, but the bottoms were very weak or just plain missing. They were...

I had to back off from my chassis setup, to address several minor chores, which I have foolishly neglected. I dressed off the ragged end of my clutch cable guide tube & patched it out with solvent and paper patches. It took about 3doz times before it was clean enough. There you can see the...

BTW, still assembling and disassembling. I forgot to take the rear heater control tubes out of the tunnel. So today I have strip it down in order to get in there. Plus, I decided it was time to finish cleaning inside of the tunnel and shoot some paint in there.

I do think this might be a problem that the body has taken a set over the years and will be slightly twisted and banana shaped. Maybe I will have an excuse to cut the whole car through the passenger compartment and add 2 inches to the wheelbase. This car steered pretty straight & when I...

I am having great difficulty making the cross corner measurements on my chassis. I need to get this car square. So I have decided I could build a trammel and I did. Over 12 feet long. It’s difficult to photograph. Also crude. No micrometer adjustments. A sliding pointer: I find that My car...

Well after five more trims, I figure I still only have about 10 to go now. I’m at that point where I’m chasing dimensions in a circle, trying to make everything come out all at once. A tiny little deviation at one point in the floor pan can throw the rail off a whole inch at the back end...

Today I am down to the part of my chassis mods that I have dreaded. In order to trim the floorboards I have to assemble the weldment and then mark the interference points and then disassemble it and then trim. Then I have to do the whole thing again and again: disassembling and trimming, and...

Squaring everything up again, with string, long rulers, big squares, little plumb bobs, and tape. I had to trim things twice before I could line it up well enough to tell anything. Looks like this 3/8” “sliver” trim will get things square. It might all still need to get a bit shorter. I...

I haven’t corrected the cable alignment yet, but I did clean up most all the bottom welds. They still need more shaping. There are pits to drill & re-weld. I also trimmed 1/4” off the collar, but it too needs more shaping. The bench of grit and sparks.

I did weld off part of that seam where it has back up at the collar. It wanted to droop badly! Then I did a test fit of the pedal assembly. The position has moved a little bit and rotated slightly more in line with the chassis. Alignment of the throttle/cable is very close, BUT, alignment...

It will never be a masterpiece, but it will be OK. I am more worried about structure than appearance. This long seam still isn’t welded yet. (This photograph was taken before I did all of the little plug welds.) I think I will weld the backside first, in this position. I can weld the outside...

Today I did the deck welds. I also did all those plug welds without a problem. I did the other side too, but I didn’t do the long seam weld on the side yet. Just a few tacks to secure things.

Ok, I got some welding done. I had some real problems with this ancient metal. I had to go back twice and drill out pits from contamination. There’s a lot of stops and starts in the long seam. It’s solid now, and will clean up ok, and all the plug welds came out great. Both sides of my...