Melburg Luft

brasstinman wrote:

vw frenzy wrote:Whats more "HOLIER" than learning how to fix VW's THUS SAYETH THE LORD

Cheers Reverend Henk

Apparently my wife doesn't think so.

I think the garage idea is fantastic. Gives people a chance to give something a go they wouldn't otherwise do on their own.
And you're right vw frenzy, it does get more HOLIER than learning how to fix VW's.

Its funny i showed my wife what i had wrote, & she said exactley the rame thing.They just dont understand.

Cheers Henk

So it's Boris's picnic this coming Sunday. LUFT Banner will be in attendance.

Nafe! You coming? I still got your 125s

OK in consultation with Herr Dutch plan is to meet at Bourke Street Bakery in Marrickville for a departure time of 8.30 for short cruise down to Boris's.

Great bread and pastries to take to the picnic or gorge on there and then. Coffee is good too.

Should be parking out front at that hour. Otherwise my office car park is adjacent on Victoria Road.

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?clien ... 0489009918

wunderbar! be there 8am

man, thats nice and early, I'll be there!

Gotta change the two CV boot seals over tomorrow on the 59 and I'll be there.

I'll be there to

im gonna come down and have a looksi,hopefully get to meet some of the guys from this kick ass site...noooewhattamean!

Spent the afternoon in the hot sun getting the beetle ready for Sunday, changing the both axle boot seals, transmission fluid top up and installing seat belts.
Must have lost a couple of kilos just sweating it out in the sun. Knew I should have put up the shade tent and worked under that.

Oh yeah, I'll be there tomorrow morning.

I went over for a bit of a look and took some photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/miikeboyle ... 705514480/


Mike

DubbinDan wrote:So it's Boris's picnic this coming Sunday. LUFT Banner will be in attendance.

Nafe! You coming? I still got your 125s

sorry mate! completely forgot about the tyres and i'm in Albury this week over 'study Vacation'.

Exams are over in a fortnight, so i'll get onto you to organise a time i can pick them up? sorry again, hope they're not taking up too much room....

Thanks for Dan for organising the meet on Sunday morning.
The bakery was really nice and the company good.
It was so nice to just sit, relax, drink coffee and talk shit.

Hello All,

I would like to danke schon all for a fantastic time on Sunday at the Boris Picnic.

I new it would be a great day when I was making my way of to Dolls Point, just about to turn onto Princes Hwy and saw about 7 beautiful VW cross my path.

So i put my foot down and caught up with the convoy at rocky pt rd. My son was a little confused as we were behind a turquoise 62 Beetle (same as mine).

It was a great day, family playing on the beach, meeting great people, learning about VW's (including mine) and admiring the effort and pride many of you take in you prized possession.

Cheers,
John

Johnnyk wrote:Hello All,

I would like to danke schon all for a fantastic time on Sunday at the Boris Picnic.

I new it would be a great day when I was making my way of to Dolls Point, just about to turn onto Princes Hwy and saw about 7 beautiful VW cross my path.

So i put my foot down and caught up with the convoy at rocky pt rd. My son was a little confused as we were behind a turquoise 62 Beetle (same as mine).

It was a great day, family playing on the beach, meeting great people, learning about VW's (including mine) and admiring the effort and pride many of you take in you prized possession.

Cheers,
John

Hi John, welcome and nice to meet you yesterday.
Lookout for our monthly meets.

Hi John,

Welcome to the luft...

i had to do a double take when i looked back and saw your 62 behind Andrew.

Come introduce yourself here

http://www.melburgluft.com/viewtopic.php?t=30&start=510

post up some pics and info on your ride here

http://www.melburgluft.com/viewforum.php?f=8

and look forward to meeting up with you at the next meet

Dave

Hi guys, while we were sitting at the bakery on Sunday morning I was chatting to Andrew and Ben about the 69 beetle my father restored for my sister and I said I'd post the details of the guy who reconditioned the engine and gear box.

VW Engineering
VW and Porsche specialists
Laidley/Plainland
PH: (07) 5465 7556
Mob: 0422 527 080

Back of his card he has:

• Crankshaft grind
  Cam grinding
  Conrod shut and cut and bushes
  Line boring
  Crankcase machining
  Flywheel grind
  Cylinder recondition
  Gear boxes fully reconditioned

My parents have moved back to Sydney but when Dad was restoring the beetle they were living in Esk, QLD and someone put us onto VW Engineering. Can't remember who it was now...
Turns out the guy builds the trike engines for the trike company in Gosford and he also builds alot of the dune buggy racing engines for the events in the Northern Territory.

We went out and checked out his property when we dropped off the engine and gearbox and he has a 20 ft container with all his own turning and machining equipment and a double garage were he assembles engines and gear boxes.
He really knew his stuff and explained what he did and why he did it in great detail. Really nice bloke and didn't muck us around.

He rebuilds 1600 TP for something like $1800 or $2000 and gear boxes for $800. Call him and he'll run through the costs and what he does.

My sister's engine cost about $2400 and was taken to a 1640 and a new case was used because the old one had a crack in it.
He uses all new parts in the rebuilds. That way he knows the engine will last.

He has a good tranpost guy who will pick up an engine from Sydney for around $85 and the same to send it back. It's cheap because the transport guy is always running up and back betwen the gosford trike place and Plainland.

I've driven the beetle with the rebuilt engine and gearbox and it's nice and tight, I can't fault it.

I was impressed that I'm going to send him up an engine at some point to get done.

bit late but here are some photo's from Boris's Picnic last Sunday

brasstinman wrote:Hi guys, while we were sitting at the bakery on Sunday morning I was chatting to Andrew and Ben about the 69 beetle my father restored for my sister and I said I'd post the details of the guy who reconditioned the engine and gear box.

VW Engineering
VW and Porsche specialists
Laidley/Plainland
PH: (07) 5465 7556
Mob: 0422 527 080

Back of his card he has:

• Crankshaft grind
  Cam grinding
  Conrod shut and cut and bushes
  Line boring
  Crankcase machining
  Flywheel grind
  Cylinder recondition
  Gear boxes fully reconditioned

My parents have moved back to Sydney but when Dad was restoring the beetle they were living in Esk, QLD and someone put us onto VW Engineering. Can't remember who it was now...
Turns out the guy builds the trike engines for the trike company in Gosford and he also builds alot of the dune buggy racing engines for the events in the Northern Territory.

We went out and checked out his property when we dropped off the engine and gearbox and he has a 20 ft container with all his own turning and machining equipment and a double garage were he assembles engines and gear boxes.
He really knew his stuff and explained what he did and why he did it in great detail. Really nice bloke and didn't muck us around.

He rebuilds 1600 TP for something like $1800 or $2000 and gear boxes for $800. Call him and he'll run through the costs and what he does.

My sister's engine cost about $2400 and was taken to a 1640 and a new case was used because the old one had a crack in it.
He uses all new parts in the rebuilds. That way he knows the engine will last.

He has a good tranpost guy who will pick up an engine from Sydney for around $85 and the same to send it back. It's cheap because the transport guy is always running up and back betwen the gosford trike place and Plainland.

I've driven the beetle with the rebuilt engine and gearbox and it's nice and tight, I can't fault it.

I was impressed that I'm going to send him up an engine at some point to get done.

Thanks for the info mate, he'll probably get a few calls.

Whose bus is this? Looks super clean.

Stewart and Corrin (VintageVeeDubSupplies)
they roll with the FlatFour VW Club