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 Post subject: Re: Kbug's 61 - Eugene
PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:22 pm 
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John chassis looks great! I wouldnt worry to much about how it sits until you have everything on like the snubbers and the body.
Also if you are basing your measurement off the sway bar that will be inaccurate. If you look at the grub screws (center of leaf springs) to ground your front end is pretty close to the same side to side.
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 Post subject: Re: Kbug's 61 - Eugene
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:15 am 
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Thanks guys! Hopefully we'll be mating the pan and body together soon.


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 Post subject: Re: Kbug's 61 - Eugene
PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:31 pm 
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Looking good. I love looking a pictures of projects taking shape. Tons of respect for the do it yourselfer. Keep the photos coming.

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 Post subject: Re: Kbug's 61 - Eugene
PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:28 pm 
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Still waiting on the body shop. Pretty much in the same shape waiting for him to "complete" this one "last" job.
However I am starting to rebuild the vent windows. Got them broken down and purchased new locks and window to frame gasket. The gasket came as a flat rectangle piece. Any advice on installing the window / gasket onto the frame?


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 Post subject: Re: Kbug's 61 - Eugene
PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:32 pm 
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Very nice looking pan. Looking forward to see it come together.

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 Post subject: Re: Kbug's 61 - Eugene
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:14 pm 
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Will I hit a couple of milestones ...... no the the body is pretty much in the same shape as the last report.
I have done a first, my daughter and I recovered the driver's seat and it came out pretty nice. We'll get back to the rest of the seats later.
Also I installed the engine on the transmission/pan and fired it up for the first time since it was put back together. It basically kicked off pretty much the first go but I couldn't get it to run by itself. When I did it ran ruff and stumbled on acceleration. Now I am going back through and retorqueing the heads, readjust the valves, reset the the carb, recheck the points, etc. I rebuilt the carb (pic34) and it may just boil down to it ..... we'll see.
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 Post subject: Re: Kbug's 61 - Eugene
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:17 pm 
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Seat looks great!

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 Post subject: Re: Kbug's 61 - Eugene
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I love the red seats! Great work!

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 Post subject: Re: Kbug's 61 - Eugene
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me too .. nice work ...

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 Post subject: Re: Kbug's 61 - Eugene
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:01 pm 
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Thanks. I hope the rest turn out as good.


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