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1977 Westfalia

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 3:35 pm
by MrBreeze
Figures.


Four days before the show and my bus suddenly refuses to start. Cranks, I can hear the fuel pump, but no start. I am gonna be mega pissed if I don't have a bus for this show.

I guess Thursday night I have to run through everything. Should be a blast considering I have a root canal at 4 :-)

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 3:47 pm
by Raj
oh no! Keep us posted

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 6:32 pm
by MrBreeze
So I spend 2 days and get nowhere. Glenn places his hands upon it and 5 minutes later it fires up.



I am humbled.

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:45 pm
by Raj
what was the issue?

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:59 pm
by MrBreeze
Stuck points. Oh well, a lesson learned.

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:07 pm
by Glenn
MrBreeze wrote:Glenn places his hands upon it and 5 minutes later it fires up.
Can i get a AMEN?

They don't call me the "Hebrew Hammer" for nothing.
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Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:20 pm
by Big_kid

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:00 am
by MrBreeze
Now I gotta spend tomorrow cleaning the camper......I ripped the whole thing apart looking for my spare coil. 9 years of collected crap. Found a few distributor caps, some spark plugs, wires, a freaking STARTER, and a lot of old car show garbage.

On the plus side, I found the step pad and taillights I thought I had lost :-)

Probably get better gas mileage now

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 7:33 pm
by MrBreeze

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 5:57 am
by Tom
Do you still have a License plate light ? Very cool.

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 4:43 pm
by MrBreeze
Got home early today and decided to fire the old girl up. Nothing. Dead.

Ok, why not? Let's try and jump start it. Let it sit for 10 minutes.....barely cranks.

Ok, wanna be a bitch? I'm done with you until it warms up outside :-) A week and a half out of surgery I shouldn't even be sitting in the damn thing let alone screwing with it.

Snow all you want.

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 4:46 pm
by Glenn
What did you have done?

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:15 pm
by MrBreeze
Double hernia last week. Of course since it's me there were "complications" and they ended up having to slice me open at the belt line. Feel a lot better this week, recovery hasn't been too bad.

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:30 pm
by Glenn
Damn... did you get any liposuction while they were there?

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:39 pm
by MrBreeze
Believe it or not, I joked with the surgeon just before they put me under "Feel free to pull a few pounds out while you're in there"

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:28 pm
by MrBreeze
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Happy f'n 4th of July from the Hutchinson Parkway

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 7:38 pm
by EDNCAROL
What happened Rob?

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 1:52 pm
by MrBreeze
Died on the Hutchinson. Had it towed to Tony thanks to help from Mr Ring. Cranks but won't start, not getting any spark.

Fun times

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 8:02 am
by Raj
Boo.... thats never fun.

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 12:10 pm
by MrBreeze
Bad coil. I tore the bus apart cause I knew that was it but couldn't find my spare.

Oh well , back up and running

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:10 pm
by MrBreeze
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And the hits keep on coming. Around the corner from the show the axle comes out. Luckily one bolt remained and I got it to the show. Jon [Hazetguy] got ahold of more bolts and it's good to go now.
Of course all of the going under the bus has destroyed my back for the weekend. Hopefully resting at my mom's will help for the bound brook show on the way home tomorrow.

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:13 pm
by Markus
wow! could you tell something was wrong or did it just let go out of nowhere?

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:29 pm
by Tom
Markus wrote:wow! could you tell something was wrong or did it just let go out of nowhere?

This is one of the things I am OCD about, I check those bolts every couple of months and will torque them to spec before I take any long trip.

And I am going upstate in a couple of weeks so I am puchasing a spare coil. ;)

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:09 pm
by MrBreeze
Markus wrote:wow! could you tell something was wrong or did it just let go out of nowhere?

No clue. Just a thud and it wouldn't move. After this trip I'm definitely throwing it up on ramps and taking a look around this weekend

Re: 1977 Westfalia

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:38 pm
by ObnoxiousBlue
Rob, this is always a hot topic over in the bay window threads.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewto ... ight=axles

Mine have come loose a few times, never fallen out like yours has though.