Us type one guys are just jealous of you type 3 guys' technologically superior cars

Sounds like I'm on the Samba As for bad luck, its not so bad. I get to work on my dub. This car has had soooooooooooooooooo many knick knack problems. All the rusted bolts....... ALL OF THEM! I have almost worn out my tap and die set! When I was dealing with the fuel hose last night I thought about lifting out the tank, I put a coil of fuel line so I could do this. 2 of the holes for the hold down bolts had to have the threads fixed, and I had to find a replacement bolt for the one that f'd up the threads. Are yall ready to hear about today? I get the car in the air and yank the motor. I inspect the fan housing and determined that the fan blade has ground up all the rubber that came off the bellows. I use compressed air to dust it the best I can. I really don't think there is any chunks of rubber in the tin, just rubber dust. Soooo, I go down and see Kermit about a new bellows. Pick one up, and all 3 rubber tranny mounts as well ,mine were factory and shot. I found out you have to remove the saddle to do this. 27mm bolts on the bottom of my car, I was ready for a nightmare! The impact took them off no problem, but it shook alot of rust off. I had to sweep it up before I crawled back under. The rear 2 weren't that hard once I figured out what order to reintsall them. BTW: Bolt each mount to the trans. Bolt saddle to mounts, then reinstall 27mm saddle bolts. It gets better.... I then decide to figure out how to do the front nose cone mount. One stud pulls out, the one on the right side that bolts it to the car. other than that it unbolted fine. I have litterally detached everything except the axles from the swing plates. Did I mention that the shift rod coupler cover plate is BELOW the T3. It was only burried in a LITTLE grease. And it sure wasn't under the back seat like a T1. I need the tranny to slide back 1" more! I am gonna have to unbolt the axels! I am thinking uf pulling the entire tranny out to pressure wash it If I go that far. The moral of the story: replacing bellows is way more involved than I thought!

Good luck,if you need help just ask...

Damn Dylan, sounds like a lot of work! Should be nice when you are done with all that stuff, it will probably feel a lot more "connected" with the new motor mounts. Are you going to have it ready for Saturday?

I dunno yet. Thursday is Gurlz night out, So I get to play in the garage. I think I have to disconnect the axels to get the tranny to slide back far enough for me to insert the front mount. I still have to pull and clean the plugs and set valves and recheck the timing.

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that sucker sure is clean!

Thats original paint. It still has lots of swirl marks and blemishes.

Update: Easter night, on the way home from mike60's house( damn good ham for dinner!), The car started making a loud noise and a bunch of rattling about a mile from his house! I pulled over in the first lit parking lot and checked it out. Loose air cleaner and an exhaust leak I figured. I thought the donuts finally blew out. Well, it turns out I lost the baffle out of my stinger. I discovered the missing baffle after I removed the header to install new donuts and seal everything up with permatex exaust compund. I used half a tube! When I fired it up the noise was still there, just clearer. I turned it off and got the flash light to look down the stinger. Sure enough, It was gone. Ohh well. At least it wasn't anything major. I reset my timing and it runs awsome now, just louder. At least my header is sealed good.