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Skid and Electra measure the travel on the 30-ton jack
Work Day Seven had Skid, Scott, Carrie, Charlie and Cary (since it was his place) in the house.

Carrie and Charlie attacked the pan, which we think is finally stripped. Scott welded two new jack points for the underside of the frame. Cary fabricated a mount for the 30-ton jack we’ll use to remove and install bearings.

I have no idea what Skid did, but he did it with aplomb. He is, however, picking up a transaxle shipping crate he found on Craigslist.

Photos from today’s work day are here.

At the end of the day, we tipped the pan on its side and found a whole new layer of that tar stuff.

Fun with power tools.
I missed Saturday’s work day thanks to a cold, but Cary reported in:

Shawn came over. He went and bought Naval Jelly to kill rust with. He also got an awesome wire wheel to remove the undercoating with. So we stripped the pan down even more.

Elecktra came out to help and worked on the backing plates for the front brakes. I took over where Shawn left off after he went home. He hasn’t had a day off in 21 days. I went to Bugformance and spent a while learning about front trailing arms and transmissions. Bob has a tranny from a 72 Super Beetle that is a single side cover (it is a stronger case) and as luck will have it it will fit our car!

I also couldn’t leave Bugformance without leaving some money there so I bought us brake shoes and a hardware kit for the front end.

Check out photos from the day’s work.

Note Cary attempting to set his pants on fire with the grinder.
It being Father’s Day, we had a light crew on Sunday but made good progress. Cary installed the second King Kong adjuster on the front suspension, Charlie muscled the seat rails off the body and I scraped sound-deadening tar off the pan. The one benefit of it being oppressively hot was that the tar was a tad softer.

The good news is that the car is completely stripped and we now begin the process of rebuilding, probably starting work on the roll cage next week.

A handful of photos from Sunday’s work.

Still life, with VWs
Cary, Skid, Scott, Charlie and I got together on Sunday to continue prep in advance of starting on the roll cage. The torsion bar adjuster will give us more front end ground clearance. Skid towed the pan over and we started work removing its front suspension. Charlie prepped the body panels for primering. I cowered in the shade and edited Charlie’s video from our trip to San Diego and Mexico.

Here are some photos from the work day.