[tcb] Re: To restore or not to restore

From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 4:55:43 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: To restore or not to restore

Put a bunch of shiny nails, screws, chain, whatever  you might use a little
water or paint thinner and pour it all out on something so that you can see
what it loosened. If you don't have flakes of rust or varnish, I'd say just
put it back in the bus. I did this to Murray about three times before it
came out clean and in 10 years I have not had any problem. Carry lots of
fuel filters.

As for the brakes, you have to do both anyway, bleed and adjust. Bleed them
first.



-----Original Message-----
From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Julie
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 3:50 PM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] To restore or not to restore

So after all of the struggle (Thanks Tracy for the suggestion to use 
the little screwdriver.), the fuel tank is out and when I shine a 
flashlight into it I don't see any rust or sludge or anything but 
happy, dry, clean metal.  When I shake it I don't hear any flakes.  So 
going through the whole POR 15 process of restoring the tank seems 
silly to me and I might mess things up rather than make it better. 
Should I just rinse the tank with something before putting it back in 
just to make sure it is as good a condition as I think it is? Should I 
stop being a wimp and go ahead and restore?

This Bus has been sitting for years, when I got it last year a friend 
and I drained the gas out of it.  It sure was stinky.  I am surprised 
that the tank seems so clean.

And a completely different question and please forgive it is a Beetle 
question but let's just pretend that we are talking about a 70 or 
earlier Bus because drum brakes are drum brakes, right?  So finally my 
Mom's VW is running but the brakes aren't so wonderful.  This car is 
new to us, and a friend suggested that I bleed the brakes first and 
then adjust them.  I thought that I should just go straight to 
adjusting them. So is he correct?  I have never bleed or adjusted 
brakes but I have seen it done, so I think I can handle it.

Thanks for putting up with me,

Julie