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Cool Stuff Restoration

Time to get the flooring up.

Now as a big surprise to me the flooring in the beetle was still stock, And if you have never seen what VW used to noise deaden take a long look.

It is a Tar with Styrofoam noise deadening thing that is glued or tarred to the pan, Now i gotta admit this stuff has done its job stopping any major rust, but through out the years water has gotten under it and just created surface rust.

This stuff is a bitch to remove as you can see i have a chisel and a hammer and spent 4 hours or so removing every bit of this stuff from the drivers side.

You can see the surface rust but the pan is still basically stock black coated…. but wait whats that near the battery …

Oh man thats a hole in the floor, i was like ahh crap does that mean a whole new floor pan, but luckily for me father is a boiler maker welder and just said ahh that’s just the battery acid eating through the floor after a bit of cleaning up we could see its only the hole the rest is solid.

My superior lamp and many tools that are really useful.

The next day i went out and bought a Air powered chissel this reduced the time it took to remove this stuff from 6 hours to a little over one hour.. and i really enjoyed that part 😛

Filled this bucket up several times 😛

Over all the pan is in great health, will get back to the hole patching later

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Auto Stick Restoration Upgrades

Front Seal and rust.

Okies first sign of rust on my little 1968.

This rust was under the front bonnet seal (or was the front bonnet seal) i grabbed a Flathead screwdriver and a nice trusty hamer and broke all the tacks off the front seal.

I will grind these down to nothing, now alot of you are thinking ok how does the rubber stick on the bonnet now, well the mexicans in their wisdom have designed a seal that sticks to the bonnet itself (ETA unknown).

Ground down nice and flat, used a wire brush on an angle grinder to do it (well to be honest father took over that job and did a great job)

Put bristle’s rust converter on the rust and man does it do an amazing job (later found out the fumes are cancer causing), But can i please note if you do this dont do it near somewhere where your workign, this black stuff gets all over you and it takes days to get it off (and never off your clothes).

Also found out they made rear mexican seals so off came the rear seal. Also in this picture you can see the shithouse job the repair shop did painting and bogging the rear apron.. (not a big issue you will see why soon). In this picture you can also see the ATF tank.

The damn black rust converter