Emissions

So the push to get the windshield in was so I could go get my emissions tested so I could order my new tags without too much trouble. 

So I had a little drama beforehand. I had got the glass in, all the lights hooked up, mirrors, seat and seat belt, everything I needed to make it legal to drive over to the test site. I got in and turned my key and nothing. Nothing except the fuse all the way on the right of the fuse box melting like a candle and smoking. Looked and my wiring diagram and that fuse I guess is for additions and so I really have no idea where those wires go. Someone on the samba told me to check the grounds first so I unplugged the wire that I thought wasn't the ground wire and the care started right up. 

Gassed up and drove down to the emissions joint and passed the test on my first try. How bout that?

Glass

All the glass is in except the door glass. All American style rubber, after we bent my chrome back into shape. Once again Smokey came to my rescue and helped me out with the glass. I should be getting my inner window scrapers today or tomorrow so hopefully by the end of the week I will have all the glass in the car and I will be able to lock it up and take it down to Karl's Custom and get the wiring taken care of. Once that is done the carpet and the seats are going back in with a stereo and I will be on the road cruising. He are my windows and Smokey.

Wrinkles

My brother making things happen. I couldn't finish this car without him. Sometimes he has more drive to get it done than I do.

Head, Liner, and Sinker

Ah the headliner. In my JBugs dvd on how to replace the headliner he mentioned that an experienced person could finish a bug headliner in 4 to 6 hours. I am not experienced, nor was my brother, and my headliner is about twice the size and has 3 times as many windows. We had a fun time... One major bump was when my brother dropped the hook/spring deal that the liner rods hook onto down in the channel above the window. So we were fishing around with magnets and wire and all sorts of thing for about an hour, when we finally figured, lets try the shop-vac. Worked like a charm. Then we glued and cut the front and realized we put it on backwards, so we had to change that... It took us a while and it doesn't look great. But we did it ourselves and it's not horrible. 

Sound and Heat

So here is the dish... I bought some foil wrapped bubble wrap sound and heat insulation from home depot and started sticking it in. I used spray glue... which I went through 3 cans of it and had about half of the car done. So I then switched over to contact cement to finish it up. Here are some pictures. Well this is the only one I can load...

I Really Need to Update

I have done the headliner, a few seals, most of the heat and sound insulation, about half of the windows, and it turns out that Jbugs sucks for a lot of things and ISP West is very helpful and very expensive... I will post some pictures of me putting it back together soon.