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[Baha (Shawn)]

Our founding father And Recording Secretary Joe Tierno owns two great VWs yet he brings a mini-van to every event!

We pulling an Air Raid on Joe T. I knew he would never go for it, so I went to his wife Kathy 'cause I knew she could talk him in to it.

What makes this AirRaid different is Joe's wife Kathy insists on feeding us... And she's a great cook!

So this is the first Air Raid and Italian Food Festival. LOL

Saturday July 12 (& Sunday the 13 if necessary... He has 2 cars)

Joe's in Turnersville right around the corner from the Whitman diner

[6T5 square]

what needs to be done?

[Baha (Shawn)]

what needs to be done?

Good question.....

I have no idea.  :confused04:;  I told Joe we were coming to his house to get both cars running & driving and that he needed to order/acquire whatever parts necessary to do so


Thanks John... Now I feel like a kidnapper

[6T5 square]

I was just saying cause I thought Blue was running good and I thought the last car I saw him in was the buggy. I just thought Joe was getting soft and liked his air conditioning too much.

[Baha (Shawn)]

Actually, through years of observation, Ive noticed that Joe much like yourself, likes to fix things that aren't broken which as you may know tends to lead to thinks breaking that otherwise would probably have been fine


All kidding aside, Joe told me what was wrong which is why I started the whole thing in the first place...just cant remember  #banghead

[rich67vw]

I'll be there. I'll torque the lug nuts while i'm there. &^rofl

[VWPANZER1]

  What's to be done? }sos{

  I have something for everybody:

 Dune buggy; I spent the day on the on going problem of the shift selector not locking out reverse. When down shifting  from 3rd to 2nd you get reverse.

  So After 3 shifters later, including a Gene Burg. I got it working by drilling out the shifter hold down holes. It worked  at least on the short test drive.

  JOB #1 The brakes are scary and getting worse on the Buggy. I have new 4 brake hoses.

  Job # 2 THE MYSTERY OF OLD BLUE. short version. I have replaced every possible part with the exception of the carburetors. Every repair item I replace made the car run perfectly- for 2 minutes. Some times it's cylinder 3 and 4. Then it just #1 then #2 will cut out. Then it switches and back and forth. Sometimes it's only one cylinder not firing.I'm going to try another electric fuel pump. If that doesn't work, I have two sets of 40mm Delordos. And don't say put a stock carburetor-I'll burn it before I do that.  Also the front brakes are pulling to the side. I have new hoses for that too.

 Job #3-1000 1957 356 Porsche :  Here you have do so many options your only limited by your  talent or lack of.
 
  Body work, mechanical - brake work etc. I have 4 welders.

The important thing is the food- If you don't want to work come for the food.

 Oh yeah there the Hot Rod too, a  23 Track T. I'm building  from scratch.
   

[rich67vw]

Job#2- talk a bit about spark, JoeT- distributor, coil, etc.  :confused04:;

[VWPANZER1]

 Pertronix , 2 different coils, 2 distribitor caps, 2 sets of plugs. Good strong spark.

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

I'll be there as a parts washer, but I'd like to work (with somebody who knows what they are doing) on something too.

[grungeant (Anthony)]

Sounds like with all that it should go into Sunday. I should be able to make it on Sunday. Saturday is my mom's birfday, and I'm not sure if there's anything planned.

[rich67vw]

So you have a timing light on for four or five minutes and see a nice consistent spark?

[Richard]

I'm in.

Address, please.

[grungeant (Anthony)]

Please send me the address too.

[6T5 square]

So you have a timing light on for four or five minutes and see a nice consistent spark?

I'm thinking the same thing- sounds like an ignition problem