The ever disappearing green goblin of a westy

[sjhjoinery]

Here's my 69 westy. Brought it of Leon last year and over the winter have been bringing her back to life.

Now you can see why it's the green goblin.
Over the winter it's been to Deaddubs workshop to have the welding done, brake overhaul and lowered on horse shoes.

Now it's back with me the plan is to remove all the green back to original paint. It's not as good as I hoped under there but I suppose that's the reason for it being painted.
Gonna give it a replica westy interior with bespoke upholstery.

Tonight been working on removing paint and hopefully by the end of the weekend want to have the interior painted ready for the new wiring loom that's being built.

 

[68_early_bay]

Starting to come together Scott ready for dubdayz? 8)

 

[sjhjoinery]

Starting to come together Scott ready for dubdayz? 8)

Hopefully Stamford if my birth certificate gets here but we'll have to see.
Wants to be at Dubdayz trailer if needs be!!

 

[sjhjoinery]

Tonight's progress

 

[Steenfeldt]

Now it's back with me the plan is to remove all the green back to original paint. It's not as good as I hoped under there but I suppose that's the reason for it being painted.
Gonna give it a replica westy interior with bespoke upholstery.

That replica buddy seat is looking good 8) . Where did you find the wood veneer?? it looks OG.

 

[sjhjoinery]

Now it's back with me the plan is to remove all the green back to original paint. It's not as good as I hoped under there but I suppose that's the reason for it being painted.
Gonna give it a replica westy interior with bespoke upholstery.

That replica buddy seat is looking good 8) . Where did you find the wood veneer?? it looks OG.

We get it from one of out local suppliers.
It's not 100% and since I've done that NLA VW have released there exact copy.

 

[radish]

Now it's back with me the plan is to remove all the green back to original paint. It's not as good as I hoped under there but I suppose that's the reason for it being painted.
Gonna give it a replica westy interior with bespoke upholstery.

That replica buddy seat is looking good 8) . Where did you find the wood veneer?? it looks OG.

We get it from one of out local suppliers.
It's not 100% and since I've done that NLA VW have released there exact copy.

Yours does look very good, i bet it didn't cost £200 a sheet though.

 

[sjhjoinery]

Now it's back with me the plan is to remove all the green back to original paint. It's not as good as I hoped under there but I suppose that's the reason for it being painted.
Gonna give it a replica westy interior with bespoke upholstery.

That replica buddy seat is looking good 8) . Where did you find the wood veneer?? it looks OG.

We get it from one of out local suppliers.
It's not 100% and since I've done that NLA VW have released there exact copy.

Yours does look very good, i bet it didn't cost £200 a sheet though.

No where near that. Works out around £75 with vat

 

[68_early_bay]

Looking forward to seeing the finished interior in the flesh 8)

 

[sjhjoinery]

Managed to squeeze a day in on the bus, well had to squeeze a day in on the bus as the new wiring loom is being fitted Monday.
Started by removing the steering wheel to fit the new repro ignition barrel and electric bit. What an arse of a job, firstly realised I didn't have the main bit that it all clips into, luckily managed to source one from Deaddubs garage just down the road, but it still had the old berrel in. After looking for any obvious holes to press in to release the barrel and looking through pages but every one seemed to be different.

Eventually we took the plunge and drilled a 3mm hole in it where we thought it would be. And it was spot on. Good job we pried the mechanism out as it was at the back so wouldn't have got in to do it other wise.
After fitting the new Repro parts the lock turns really rough. So I'm leaving it out for now till I know it's working. Hopefully with time it'll ease up a bit.

After all the switches were refitted started on the green paint yet again and digging out some filler which turned out to be more than I thought!

 

[sjhjoinery]

Got the wiring loom fitted Monday and the bus running last night, but then went to select gears and nothing. Checked the clutch cable that was good so out came the engine. Turns out the linkage shaft that comes out the bell housing has a surclip that was missing.
So today's job will be drain the oil out of the box bell housing off and locate the surclip. Then hopefully engine back in.

 

[sjhjoinery]

Just stripped the bell housing off in my dinner break. Just awaiting tonight to be shown the correct order for it to be reassembled then hopefully we'll be moving.

New modern fusebox that comes with the loom

 

[easy]

nice work! interior is gonna be awesome, you should do that for a living :mrgreen:

 

[sjhjoinery]

The cause of no drive a stripped stud that connects the rear drive shaft to the main drive shaft in the gearbox

Worst thing is it's 7mm so no one has anything lying around!!!