Thanks Nigel. It came off of a '02 Toyota Tundra.
I had to put a quieter muffler on that truck for a customer who just bought it used. I'm not sure who makes it, but the entire catalyst-back exhaust was pre-made for the truck out of stainless steel. What I salvaged should give me what I need to make the rest of the works for my Bug, and then some.
Last week I sent the Bilsteins back to Bilstein for 2" of shortening. Were it not for the internal bump-stops, I'd have done it on a lathe myself, plus, there's that lifetime warranty thing...
Nothing worth firing up the camera for today. I pulled the rear hubs, installed 100mm wheel studs, and the 2" spacers, re-indexed the rear torsion bars back to their stock position, and did some grinding on the bottom of the spring plates to make clearance for the sway-bar links.
On the front end, I changed the position of the master cylinder by drilling new mounting holes horizontally across from each other, like an early bug, made an aluminum plate for the mounting bolts to go thru on the interior side of the Napolean's Hat, and utilizing the vertical boss on the front of the 930 master cylinder to bolt it to the framehead just behind the left front control arm.
I applied aircraft chemical stripper (non-military grade
) to the body this morning after power washing the whole shell clean. I did all the other stuff while waiting for it to work in. Really didn't have ideal conditions for the stripper to work as it was sunny, and much of the stuff dried before it could work its way under the paint.
BTW, Nigel, on some parts of the body, I got down to a layer of yellow that'll hurt your eyes in direct sunlight!
