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Auto Stick Restoration

Pan work part 2.

Looking back those previous photos looked kind of crap, so i thought i would take some more to show you how it really looks now its been painted twice and finished off.

So here you can see the pan in its nice red oxide coating, with the blacked out seat rails (as this is the part you can see through the carpet).

Closer view of the front

Coolies and that’s it for now before i lay down the new underlay, i didn’t need to paint the tunnel bit as it was fine but i may do it later as a just in-case. You can also see the cable that hooks the gear selector to the automatic clutch.

That’s it for this topic.

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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