[Eric]

It's all in, no shimmies or shakes, at least the tiny bit of driving I did. I don't plan on driving it till I buy the new idler arm bracket and bushing and do my alterations. I sorta kinda jacked mine up. Surprising the balljoints where hella easy. I've read so many threads on them being impossible to press out. Then again I did use a 20ton press machine. I'm very used to this type of steering set up, but doing it for the first time on a beetle was a little challenging. So besides sorta jacking up my idler arm bracket and new bushing, the only other thing I did was attempt to crush my control arm when I went to press out the old rubber swaybar bushing. The socket I used was a tiny bit to big.. it's fine though.. maybe. Anyway it was fun. Next time it'll take me about 1/4 of the time. Though it kinda sucks buying all of this, like doing the struts, when later on in the not too future I'll be switching to the maxx struts or something similar.

Some dude was there who had a late 60's standard, and we were bs'ing. He tried to get my timming and carb tuned a bit, and it idles better now, but I think he attempted to do it like his, and now mine runs like crap when I give it any kinda gas. So I really needa grab a book and do it myself, and learn how. I have a Haynes, and Chilton and Muir book. I really wanna get the Bently, and maybe a carb specific book.

So next plan, is to buy a new idler arm bracket, bushing, and some other odds and ends to develope my own upgraded idler arm. Lots of plans on how to upgrade the existing set up. I'll see how that goes, and post my results.