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We left off with a wash-in, whereby one gets washed out outside and dives in inside with drying paint and dirt and dampness and cloddy tires and you go sit in a parking lot on pavement and ponder the dark grey sky while you try to organize the chaos and sweep out from under your feet and boxes and direct the dirt field to the sliding door edge where you hope it will just fall from sight. I went right back to the pasture path cul de sac and stayed on this side of the mud and passed out and woke up completely disoriented.
Drove through town to find me some Happyfolk. Here's one:
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It was raining like heck when I arrived, so we waded into a spirited political/spiritual/apocalyptic discussion in the aptly named "sunroom" and by and by, the weather cleared up. It was a painful day of tedium for Happyfolk, hours of adhesive removal of the door seal channel in preparation for the new door seal. It was an equally exasperating day for me to make his driver's side window go up more smoothly. While I battled a tight felt and a dry regulator and missing sharkbite clips, Happyfolk battled the adhesive:
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THall came to visit us with his beautiful Westy of much history here on the forum:
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I opened up Naranja's poptop and windows to air out the poor thing:
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Somewhere in there, Happyfolk and I fixed the steering column and got the turn indicator canceller to cancel. Then, I had to direct him back to the adhesive:
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THall and I took his Westy on a test drive (nice power brakes! I wish I had me some!) and noted a loose tinny rattle that I have been informed has been tracked down as of today:
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I was having a terrible time with that driver's side window. The felt would get pushed too deeply in the channel because the paint guys had just left out all the retaining clips, all of them. I tried a couple of shim ideas and the pressure of the window cocking sideways would dislodge the shims, and it was a mess. I took out the felt, reconfigured the corner so it wouldn't buckle closed and stop the glass, it was a mess of tedium. Meanwhile, Happyfolk had to happily keep removing adhesive:
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You think seeing this photograph repeatedly is bad, think about poor Happyfolk. Tried to fix the door stays with credit card shims like I did with Naranja. Worked a charm on the driver's side, but I could not rescue the damaged wedges on the right ... they were too deeply gouged . By the end of the day, we barely got a fit of the new door seal in place, adjusted the door height barely, adjusted the latch for the proper double click, and Happyfolk and I had dinner with Mrs Happyfolk, a fine dinner too.
Woke up and decided to replace the original booster in Sparta WI in the 98% humidity and the 93* noon sun with an appeciative audience of ten billion fleas/gnats/mosquitoes, flying bugs and biting flies:
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Some good cad II plating under the cosmoline!
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Boosters always look like big doofus cans under the car, in the way of everything with all kinds of things stuck to them, but they look so modest out of their element:
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This was tricky ... the o-ring I had cobbled for the master cylinder in December 2015 had apparently swelled up from my installation grease, and it refused to fit back into the groove of the master cylinder. So I cut the thing at a sharp diagonal and took out a half an inch:
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Weatherstrip glue I thought:
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Fits the groove now!
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Adjusted the push rod, bled the brakes with my right hand on the brake lever while I cracked the fittings at the master cylinder and got brake fluid in my eyes because the gnats, the gnats ...
This new used booster is very soft and modulatable. The cymbal suspension air filter is more dense than the original felt ring, so it applies the boost more slowly and releases it more gently. Power brakes! Great invention for disk brake cars. Stopped by BusboyTom down the road and we visited an old Larry guy with a stash of VW parts among his street rod customs and some nostalgic old American iron from the 50s. Some interesting parts, I am sure Tom will chime in, the irrepressible BusBoyTom:
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