Sound in Stereo

Thanks to my brother spending a day looking at my wiring diagram and rats nest of wires and a diagram on how to wire up a stereo along with an amp that I found... The stereo was installed the next day. All I did was build a wood mount for the amp that I used construction adhesive to attach to the body and then the amp to that. I also bough a underdash mount for the receiver and my friend Steve took care of mounting that. I won't say how... but it works wonderful. So basically we found the right stuff to plug into and turned it on. After we got it installed we cruised around the neighborhood with no seats for an hour. After that I sat in my garage and listened to it, and killed my battery. Good thing my brother has a charger.  I also used so dynomat under the rear interior panels.

Seats Continued

So sliding on the seat covers over the foam is a whole lot harder than the video for JBugs makes it out to be. I believe I ripped two areas on two different seat covers. With luck they are not that noticeable. Soar hands and raw fingers and uncountable hours were spent on the seats. Painting the bases, buying more burlap, and figuring out how to finish the bottom of the back of the front seats(with boot laces), all the time added up. But it got done with a ton of help from my brother. The boot laces came in where the old broken metal teeth failed. So along with missing metal wire in the bottom of the backs which I replaced with some metal dowel type things from ACE I think cut holes in the vinyl for the boot laces, then laced it up with the laces going around the outside of the metal dowel pulling everything down and tight. Tied it off and that was that. Put the seats back together and slid them into place. More seat pictures to come with the finished product pictures.

Past Due

So I really need to update but I don't want to spend time loading pictures and typing so I will say that i got it back from Karl's a while back the lights were working again and the windows were... they did an okay job but its a major workout to roll then down. So next time I post I should be totally done... or for the most part.

It's All you Karl

I guess it is up to Karl's Custom at this point.

Giving Up

So after a long break from the VW and yet another frustrating weekend of attempting to put the door window and trim back in... I called it quits. I called Karl's Custom and asked if they did it. And sure enough. They do. So come Wednesday I am taking it in for a quote to finish the windows and electrical. I figure there is probably a 2 week wait and then I am in. Then all I have to do is put the carpet and seats in and a few details to finish up and I am cruising. 

This decision was made by the help of money. Seeing how I now have no time and more money than ever.

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.