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newriverjunkie Junior Member Offline Courage is endurance for one moment more… Posts: 80 Goose Creek, SC Gender:	Re: Winter sucks! But it can't last forever. Reply #15 - 03/05/13 at 08:18:18 Supposed to be a warm front coming in this week...hopefully so cause I'm tired of freezing my fingers in the morning.
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Re: Winter sucks! But it can't last forever.
Reply #16 - 03/05/13 at 08:57:55

ZAR wrote on 03/03/13 at 18:59:22:

WD wrote on 03/03/13 at 15:13:14:

Savage is 1/2 of an old Beetle, on even skinnier tires. What? Light weight, rut tracks like mad, can't get out of its own way, freezes you in the winter and cooks you in the summer...

My Savage's "barn buddy" is a 72 Super Beetle...

Yeah? So what's the problem WD?? Wink

No problem... other than my idiot father in law getting conned out of the 2332cc dual carb SB engine and swapping in a 68 standard engine. Angry

Old fool couldn't get it to run right, mechanic convinced him the $4500 engine was bad... it needed a new distributor. Now the Bug is barn art until I can build the current engine into something decent. Or get my hands on an old air cooled 911 engine... Roll Eyes

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Re: Winter sucks! But it can't last forever.
Reply #17 - 03/05/13 at 18:35:03

WD wrote on 03/05/13 at 08:57:55:

ZAR wrote on 03/03/13 at 18:59:22:

WD wrote on 03/03/13 at 15:13:14:

Savage is 1/2 of an old Beetle, on even skinnier tires. What? Light weight, rut tracks like mad, can't get out of its own way, freezes you in the winter and cooks you in the summer...

My Savage's "barn buddy" is a 72 Super Beetle...

Yeah? So what's the problem WD?? Wink

No problem... other than my idiot father in law getting conned out of the 2332cc dual carb SB engine and swapping in a 68 standard engine. Angry

Old fool couldn't get it to run right, mechanic convinced him the $4500 engine was bad... it needed a new distributor. Now the Bug is barn art until I can build the current engine into something decent. Or get my hands on an old air cooled 911 engine... Roll Eyes

Sorry WD! Just pokin a little fun at the "can't get out of it's own way, freezes you in the winter,cooks you in the summer" line. I grew up that way so it's normal to me!

And hate to hear that about engine! Sounds like you had a good mill. The "Bug" guys up here seemed to like the engine/transaxles from the bus/transporter for hopping up. I know those were close to bulletproof.

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Reply #18 - 03/06/13 at 06:43:57

Supers came with Porsche struts, drum brakes and transaxle. 914 I think, whichever was the micro-roof MG knock-off. Not top of the line for the Porsche label, but definitely better than the standard Beetle stuff.

I need to find a frame for a project engine I found while letting a vintage Dodge club friend and his son do some metal detecting. Ancient, air cooled all iron boxer twin engine... No idea what it is out of, it is still sitting in one of the seasonal creek beds as an erosion control block. It does appear to have a drive shaft coupling though... could be agricultural, industrial, marine or truly ancient Euro-bike in origin.

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28887 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Winter sucks! But it can't last forever. Reply #19 - 03/06/13 at 08:07:55 yep, that be the 914 the super vdub, or the econo porch
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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: Winter sucks! But it can't last forever. Reply #20 - 03/06/13 at 15:06:24
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Re: Winter sucks! But it can't last forever.
Reply #22 - 03/08/13 at 12:51:10

Salty Holes (probably not what you are thinking)

In central Kentucky, high 40's today; high 50's tomorrow, low 60's Sunday. I got the bike back together with the versy cam chain tension adjuster, new clutch cover gasket, new exhaust header gasket, clutch cable adjustment and lube, sump full of Rotella T-6 and ZDDP Kicker; and took her for a 40 mile shake down run this afternoon.

In the MSF course, they warned us about oil, gravel, trash, road kill, and your old girlfriend before you got married; each of them things that just do not belong on the road and can get you in trouble very quickly. What they did not talk about are large patches of accumulated road salt in turns and new pot holes not there last fall. So I learned (almost the hard way) to look out for those salty holes.

Golf tomorrow and a long ride Sunday. It doesn't get any better than this after a long winter.

Good hunting

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