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Post by TeddyBower on Dec 6, 2016 19:41:37 GMT -5
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Post by Dabeagle on Dec 7, 2016 0:17:35 GMT -5
The text above is a link, for those waiting for the picture to load.
Oh, just me?
Carry on, then.
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Post by PaulR5 on Dec 11, 2016 0:19:49 GMT -5
That is a great picture/short 30 second video. The Facebook page for that whose series is: www.facebook.com/505VWBus/videos/622554754602611/Some really good looking stuff on that Facebook page. The name of that Timeline is: 505 VW BUS (in all caps). Thanks, Teddy Bower and Dave. |
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Post by TeddyBower on Dec 13, 2016 18:28:44 GMT -5
Yeah, somehow I did it wrong but didn't have the time go back and fix it at the time, then promptly forgot. What can I say. Anyhow, It was kinda fun, I thought.
My folks bought a 1969 VW Passenger Van when I was a kid. We owned it for a couple of years before it swallowed a valve on Christmas Eve in Yuba City, California, about 250 miles from home. We had it towed to a little auto shop recommended by the tow truck driver. Turned out the old mechanic who ran the place by himself was a VW specialist who worked as a young man in Hitler's VW plant in Nazi Germany. He took dad and us boys out back of the shop and showed us a pile of broken heads and pistons he'd collected over many years of repairing VW engines that had swallowed valves. That pile was probably 30 feet across and 15 feet high. Every time he repaired one he'd haul the broken parts out there and throw them on the pile.
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Post by glh on Jun 29, 2017 23:16:23 GMT -5
I dropped a valve on my Beetle in high school. Aside from it being my fault because I was driving, I was told periodic valve adjustments would alleviate that problem.
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Post by TeddyBower on Jul 1, 2017 10:19:16 GMT -5
I dropped a valve on my Beetle in high school. Aside from it being my fault because I was driving, I was told periodic valve adjustments would alleviate that problem. Yup. That's what we were told by the mechanic who fixed ours. It was still under warranty when it happened and we'd just had it serviced at the dealership, including a valve adjustment, a couple of weeks earlier. As it turns out the dealership had been charging customers for work that was never performed. They lost a class action lawsuit a couple of years later and went out of business. |
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