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This weekened was fun, exciting and draining (not to metion the Pope's curse lives on. )

On Friday night one of my friends Mark Rogers got married. It was a nice wedding and really cool to get to see my friends from far off (Charleston, Scranton, D.C.) make it down. We all hung out and ate dinner after the wedding. It was good to see and catch up with everybody.

On Sat. I got up and went to Summerville for my second BBQ judging. This time there were 27 teams there representing all four types of SC style BBQ. The competition this week was for whole hog (unlike last week where it was Boston Butts). I sampled all 27 and they were all good. It is really had to be critical of something that is so good. I mean most of these people do this professionaly so it has to be good.

I came back home and coated the tractor's gas tank. It was getting rust in the fuel line and I needed to correct the problem in order for it to run properly. After working a little outside I cleaned the house and started packing for our big move. Heidi had a girls night out so it was just Harley and I.

Sunday mourning Paul met me over at my house and brought his pressure washer. A brand new pressure washer...but one that came to the Pope's house. Before we even started the choke came off so we had to do a quick rebuild. Thirty min. later I was off and spraying the hose to kill the mold and fungi that popped up since last time.

After knocking that out it was off to take out the motor of the 73 VW. And in true Pope form it wasn't easy at all. Paul and I ultimatly got it off and decided to call it quits. I however wanted to get a little more done so I got the tractors tank back together and started to place it back on. Everything was going great until I went to connect the fule line to the carburator. I then discovered that I managed to strip the threads. After a trip to two local parts houses and lowes with no luck I officially called it quits.

To reward myself for all the work Heidi and I are going to see Blades of Glory.

FRICKIN SWEET!!!!

Posted by Andre at 08:11 PM | Permalink

Over the holiday break I got a chance to do a little work on the VW. This time it was taking out the old rusty fire wall in the 71 and replacing it with a brand new one that I got from Clip 1.

At first Paul and I talked about it and decided the best thing to do was to wait till I got the replacement pan it to make sure I knew what to cut out and what to leave. So that I did. Once I got the new part in hand I decided to take it nice and slow. Only cut out sections at a time. So with my sawzaw in hand I began to cut away sections.

Form time to time I would admire the job I was doing and look over at the new part. I began to see just how the old one was put it and compared it to exactly the specification of the new new fire wall. I figured out that the entire old piece was spot welded into place.

With this new found knowledge I got out my new air chisel and began to knock off all of the spot welds. What I was left with was a perfect fitting. The old one out, the new one placed in.

The next step is to prep the surface for welding!

Posted by Andre at 01:49 PM | Permalink

Moving forward without moving backwards, hopefully. However this all depends on the weld styling of Mr. Paul Reynolds. I have had some trepidation about leveling off the back end of the bug since I purchased it 6 months ago. Trepidation has turned into full fledge tromping, cutting and grinding.

This all took place last night:

Before

After

Continue reading "Bug Guts" »

Posted by Andre at 11:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Yep thats right folks the chassis if finally done! I got to spend some time with the 71 over the weekend and me and her had a great time.

Continue reading "Chassis Black" »

Posted by Andre at 02:01 PM | Permalink

I got to work a little on the 71VW over the weekened.

Continue reading "Hard At Work" »

Posted by Andre at 07:58 PM | Permalink

So I just became a member of the Volksrod crew and I notice that the intial picts of the 71 were no londer up on the site. I have reposted them here.

A quick update after the jump

Continue reading "Out With The Old In With The New" »

Posted by Andre at 01:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

A Quick recap of all the crazy stuff taht has been going on:

• ParkingStickets is up and running!
• The Mag is gearing back up.
• Keith is knocking out some cool web applications
• Paul is trucking with the game project
• Hero Tattoo is taking shape in Conway
• DATE Night is finally back
• Heidi's B-day is coming up
• Finally got a Mac way of "Backing Up" my DVD's
• Really dig this concept and hope to participate
• This is pretty cool too
• Been working on the floorpans for the VW

All of this is about three days. WooHoo!

Posted by Andre at 06:14 PM | Permalink

I used to get in a lot of trouble in my younger days. Part of it was from lifting tires. Its pretty amazing how things change.

Continue reading "Loosing My Touch...No It's a Good Thing" »

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