1965 vw beetle called bertie

[megzy]

well i have thread on here for my land rover here retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=readersrides&thread=57426&page=1

but as i have just aquired this and this is retro i thought it was time for a thread. i want to do a full resto back to factory, but may change my mind and lower it on porshe rims hehe

OK well here is Bertie (nicked named by my mum)

he was abandoned on the farm where my worshop is over 4 years ago. i rolled him out and into the field some 2 years ago.

this is how he looked all dry and before i pushed him out into the elimants
fully chromes engine rock on haha


mmm floor looks good but plated to feck






well i rolled him out and left him like this which was alittle silly



and rolled into my unit about a month ago whilst i applied for the log book






as you can see the floor is now very rusty and when i tried to jack it up the floor just fell to bits so new floor pans new heater channels on order and alot of grinder discs reader to cut all the rubbish out.

last week before i went away i tried to start it and it start on the second turn of the key cheers nameless for your help much needed as i have no idea

video


next job is to split body from chassis

hope this doesnt bore people

Matt

[lewist123]

Hey mate, just found this thread after the heads up today.

Looks like a nice little project. It doesn't look too bad in the pics, but I am sure it has some hidden delights just waiting to be uncovered.

If you need a hand let me/us know!

Lewis

p.s. not bored at all. looking forward to seeing how you get on.

[andiepops]

So you finaly dragged the old girl back in eh Matt looking good

[megzy]

cheers guys

morning mr pops

[namless]

nice one megzy looking forward to the progress of the car. amazing how the car just started up the otherday after standing for 4 years and on old fuel, i suppose it lives up to its name lol VW haha

cheers Gobs

[megzy]

update time

well dropped the engine out yesterday and a curse word to get out, as mine not standard i had to strip all the exhaust off and once i got engine on floor i could get the body high enough to get engine out from under rear apron. but finally did it with a lot of grunt and pallets

so here the oily hole where the engine used to fit

and the engine ready to be stripped

now questions how much of a rebuild do i do on the engine? do i strip and replace everything all seals piston rings etc etc or as it runs and dosnt smoke to bad just clean it up?

i broke alot of bits yesterday mainily three jacking points and half the chassis ooops

his new home had a lick of paint to so just work benches to source

well a weekend spent on my own has yeild alot of progress sadly not what i had planned but saved me sitting at home doing nothing

well in the space of 45 minutes i stripped the engine :lol:





now all looks good been running very rich so lots of carbon so can i scrape this with a plastic scrapper?

all its needs is a decoke i ll port the head whilst there and new valve stem oil seals :-D

engine fully stripped and painted awaiting gasket set (no pics as there on my home pc)

sunday i spent stripping the loom and dash out



and then started splitting he body from the shell eeek what a job after three fires i finally got the front of the pan seperate from the body just the back to do now




As you can see pretty rotten but will keep me entertained for a bit

[namless]

dude you have made some good progress with the car over the weekend. was the engine as clean inside? plastic scraper probably not do anything need a very sharp blade so it wont score the metal.

[Colonelk]

haha doesnt look supermegabad, just stillsneedslotsofworkbad hahaha

[Keefy]

it doesnt look like you've braced it? Make sure you get the body properly braced before you split it from the chassis!!

Nice little project tho

[megzy]

another update
engine stripped and cleaned and painted





this is the tube that supples the engine formt he carb is ment to be broken like this



took the doors off and braced the body

one door is full of filler

then set about splitting the body form from the pan and oh dear it has terminal rust and mmmm more filler :yay big thanks to namless for his help and the bracing cheers dude

[philtvr]

The bit thats cracked looks to only be the casting used to bridge the heat from the exhaust linked pipe to the inlet manifold so should give no problems.

[megzy]

cheers mate

[Keefy]

That cracked pipe uses the exhaust gases to keep the manifold warm and to stop the carb icing in winter. It basically insulates and transfers the heat. You will probably be OK, but should you have problems with carb icing you know why!

From all the previous repairs, has the body been welded to the pan at all? If so, just chop at those joins, undo the bolts, and it should split easy.
Then you can deal with the pan halves. Buy a spot weld drill bit, drill out the spot welds down the chassis spine and hopefully that will take out the pan halves and the previous repairs together.

That should save you some time and some cutting discs lol

Looks like a cool project, keep on it dude!

[megzy]

hey Keefy

all the fllor bolts just went rounf and round so i cut the floor out and the body at the back did eventually split just the front to pop apart. i am enjoying it as never done anything this major before but i feel i ask dumb questions at time as i don't have a clue lol

[Keefy]

Cool, framehead bolts and then it splits!

If you need a hand/advice with anything just send me a PM

[93fxdl]

a little tip about the inlet manifold
the heat riser pipe is notorious for blocking which means you get carb icing problems, the options are
1 clean the riser
2 fit an imdu (inlet manifold deicing unit?) electric heater below the carb
3 fit twin carbs
ttfn glenn

[Keefy]

good point 93fxdl
If the manifold is blocked the easy way to clear it is with an old frayed cable. Clutch cable works a treat usually.

[megzy]

cheers for the advice guys i tried to rebuild the engine today but some one put one of the big end shells on back to front so gonna buy new shell they have printed on the Uo.25 is this + 25tho?

any way update
well after alot of straining hammering and thinking i finally split the body from the chassis


i then carried the body accross to the corner of the yard and wrapped it but not before examming the root


all wrapped up

next to inspect the chassis and its better than i thought





more soon

matt

[megzy]

well long time no update just been a lazy lol

stripped the pan

and welded in the floor plate cheers namless ;D

its ready for a spray when it warms up if it ever does:(
and on to engine rebuild and what a pain in the they are to rebuild lol
but here are the pics and the tin wear painted

[is,sit]

Looks like sweet Mate keep em pics coming