A '76 '02. Oh okay..... wait a what?!

[323ijoe]

Youre so lucky, the only '02s i can find are complete rusty pos

I don't think lucky is the word lol more like stubborn, look back at all the rustiness I had to deal with

[323ijoe]

Was going to skimp the flywheel and stick with stock until I got around to a 5-speed swap but I couldn't pass up this Aasco aluminum flywheel that popped up for sale. Just waiting on a new pilot bearing then I can button everything up and drop the engine/trans in for good.

[tylerlb]

That looks beauty!

[JuusoEt]

Good to see you continued with the car! Looks hard work with the rust, thumbs up on here!! Subscribed

[duct-tape]

inspiring.
I'm about to start the floors on my bavaria and its nice to see someone doing what I need to do

[I_Haz.:R32]

Amazing work on the rust repair! I'm still scratching my head at how you recreated that rear inner wheel tub & strut mount....

[323ijoe]

inspiring.
I'm about to start the floors on my bavaria and its nice to see someone doing what I need to do

The floors weren't too bad of a job, the fun part is once you start cuting out the bad metal only to find more and more and more and more lol

Amazing work on the rust repair! I'm still scratching my head at how you recreated that rear inner wheel tub & strut mount....

I didnt fab those, bought them off someone who cut up a parts car, measured them up, trimed and welded them in.



Small update - was able to get the flywheel/clutch in and trans bolted back on. plan on dropping everything back in tomorrow.




And if you happen to have a needle bearing for a pilot, dont bother using a rental pilot bearing puller from Advance auto, it wont work. Ended up doing the wet paper towel trick after the puller destroyed the bearing.

[323ijoe]

[323ijoe]

Made some a bracket and mounted my new seat realized when sitting in the car my head is maybe inch away from hitting the rool/sunroof tray, so I cut the 2" mounts out, going to replace them with 1.25" and see how that works out.

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Then I went to bolt in my pedal box, guess what. It didn't match up tp my original replacement panel. So I cut that out too.

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After 3 panels I just wasn't happy with I finally remembered how to make things and got a very nice fitting panel.

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I also bought a second heater box hopefully that I can save, has a lot of stress cracks that need to be addressed and possibly reinforced, but it did come with a working fan so thats a bonus.

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