3 lawnmovers...?
On 6/8/08, No Quarter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On April 2nd of 2007 (yes the year is correct), the parts showed up to > allow > me to convert my 1974 Super Beetle to disc brakes. On Saturday May 31st, > 2008 with the help of my fiance from Brisbane, Australia, I managed to put > the John Connolly super stopper rear brake shoes on Li'l Red and convert > the > fronts to disc brakes. My dad also helped me install the master cylinder > and then using my little pressure bleeder, we bled the brakes. After a day > to test it all out, Enid (my fiance) and I took a 900 mile road trip from > Beatrice, NE to Enid, OK and then through the Kansas flint hillls from > Witchita to Kansas City, MO and back home again. We stopped in Kansas City > to pick up a Ham Radio antenna I had purchased from a craigslist seller. > The installation was very straight forward and I have great brakes > now. The > only problem is that my stainless steel lines are a bit too short for the > fronts and I had to remove them from the brackets and use wire ties to > secure the the metal lines until I can get longer SS lines. I'm going to > check with aircooled.net to see what I can figure out but anyway, it's a > worthy conversion. It took me from 2pm to midnight to do it. > > Here's the only photo Enid took of me while I was in a pissy mood > http://incolor.inebraska.com/elassley_bie//enidvisit/May31/IMG_0201.JPG > trying to get it all done. > > Feel free to browse the rest of the photos and videos of our month of > hanging out. > > Erin aka NQ > > _______________________________________________ > vintagvw site list > [email protected] > http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw > _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
