Good Morning!!!! 60F @ 5:45AM. Some clouds this morning will give way to generally sunny skies for the afternoon. High 74F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Wow! You all seem to be staying busy this weekend! Knock it off, yer makin' the rest of us look bad!:laughing:
My search for the missing windshield wiper hardware was fruitless yesterday, though I did manage to get through seven or eight boxes of parts and do some rearranging and throwing out. I did get the windshield wipers mounted on the van using some stainless steel lock nuts and washers I keep on hand, but will have to order the decorative plastic caps that hide them. Also got the front grills installed, and one mud flap. Instead of the sheet metal screws they came with, I used nutserts in all but one location. It turns out that if the metal is too thick, the nutsert will collapse without mushrooming, and will then come out of the hole. The junk drawer held one giant hex head sheet metal screw that was just right for the now oversize hole, but today on the other side, I'll just tap the hole and be done with it.
Also on the agenda is installing a Blazecut fire extinguisher in the engine compartment. Vanagons are notorious for engine fires due to the plastic fuel line fittings VW used. They've all been either eliminated or replaced with metal ones on this engine, but better safe than sorry. VW also changed the 2'x3' metal door over the engine to plastic in the later models, so I'll salvage the steel one off the parts car and use that instead. It's a little heavier, but it won't melt and let the fire spread into the rest of the body if the Blazecut isn't enough to stop the flames.
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!
