Dave's 1971 1302 Not-So-Secret, Secret Project Build

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After a couple of weeks in California (I know, tough) I'm back home for a week and a half. I'll have to split my time between the other cars in the fleet, and the Rally Bug, plus prepping for Christmas...but lets see if we can't get a few things done?

Driven hard, and put away wet (and muddy). I'm sure past-me figured I'd have lots of time while the body was in paint to deal with the engine, but it seems these things don't get cleaned up and readied until you actually need them. So, here we are. Internally, the engine should be mint. No reason to tear it down, the only question is whether it needs a cosmetic rework or not. On the one hand, I'd love to swap out for new tins, and black-out the engine bay like the '58 or my red German Look beetle. But getting rid of the crude red shroud feels very "anti Rally Bug", so I think it might stay for a little longer. There's another purchase in my life that is hampering the budget significantly...so that factors in too.







Clutch fingers have some interesting wear from the 901 throwout bearing, but considering I've been using these fingers with the Tilton bearing for so long, should be fine with the standard beetle setup(?). Going to run it to find out. Clutch disc is still just above 8mm, so bolted it all back up...will revisit in another 25,000mi :P



And...yup...that's about as clean as it's going to get before being installed :P



-Dave