[tcb] Re: mike everet
- From: "Denis" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:25:18 -0500
I raised Murray using the springplates. I have a little camber, but the tires
are wearing smoothly. It may change when you load the bus and get in it.
Springplates are easy and if you don't like it, you can put it back and it's
free.
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From: Brian Denning
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:16 AM
Subject: [tcb] Re: mike everet
i meant 205/75r15's
just reread my post, sorry, i'm so used to typing 14 thanks to being in bay
hell
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From: i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: mike everet
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:07:37 -0500
from all my readings it's looking more and more like fred will be getting
205/75r15's
i was going to do 215/75r15 but i really plan on going offroad with this
thing and the thought of the tires getting into those perfect rear fender lips
just kills me a bit inside.
after discussing with mike through email it was all coil overs, he says it
rides good, but again, after much reading i don't think i'd want to go that
route
205/75r14's are about 2" bigger than stock, that's what hershey now has on
him thanks to his new owner, and it looks bad ass. so that's what i shall do to
fred.
sucks, i wanted to raise him, but there's no good way of doing it without
getting alot of positive camber out back, which woudl make it a bit squirelly
on the highways.
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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:00:07 -0500
From: evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: mike everet
The tires were a lot of it but the spring plates were cranked up quite a bit
too.
Too bad you couldn't do an easy body lift on a bus like you can on a bug to
get more tire clearance.
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Eric Woodall wrote:
..and Mike's bus isn't that much taller than stock.
Maybe about 2 inches, which was gained by tires.
w.wood wrote:
really? Wow, I guess all those years of fixing up cut wheel wells didn't
teach me much about redux boxes then. I don't know much about yours and it
could have been modified. If you have 46mm axle nuts and you're planning to
run big tires I'd suggest getting a set from a 55-63 bus which have lower
gearing for the taller tires you sound like you'll need. You could always cut
the fender wells out and go 60's retro with fiberglass fender flares. That and
a set of air scoops would look totally mod for the new millennium.. ;-)
Also since presumably yours is a 58 you should read the crazy 8's thread on
thesamba before you make mods. You may have something rare there. I realize
under the rust you may be expecting Doubloons but I'd bet just rot..
Then again you could always get a Ford chassis and put your bus on top of
that. Wait, that's been done
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=358633&start=0
But at least you could get parts at the local ArkaCan O'Reilly's or Canada
Tire and keep it running.
The point I'm trying to make here Brian is that if you're going to modify a
51 year old bus you should think about the end game and the serviceability. If
it's going to be something for fun then you want contemporary components that
are relatively easy to get. I'll also get a *gasp* from that from a few folks
on here on that statement but if you've priced stock 1600 parts lately, the
ones that aren't made in Taiwan, then you'll know what I mean. Redux gear parts
aren't exactly being made by the bucket full anymore, neither are stub axles
for RGBs either. If you want real fun, try buying Barndoor parts sometime..
So if you're committed to modify, go big or go home. Don't try to modify 50
year old parts without expecting the requisite problems and pocket book gouge..
To illustrate the problem, after futzing around with a Type 3 this weekend,
I'm having it hauled to Doug's for some more work.. and that's for my kid for
High School.. Why? After putting new heads on it, new tubes it wouldn't mate
back up to the transaxle. After re-aligning the clutch 3 times to see if I
could get it to seat, I said "f* it." But then again CB 044 heads, dual 44
IDFs and a 1700 Kennedy may be fighting me somewhere but oh well... It needs
some other things too, so might as well whip out the checkbook....
fix the z-bar.. new wheel cylinders.. oh well.
Right now I'm thinking Honda Accords look pretty damn good. Maybe a
Prius.. in Pink.. Naw, he's cadet commander in NJROTC and that'll be against
the don't ask don't drive a Prius policy.
On Mikes bus he went with some very tall tires and wound up denting the
lower portion of his dog legs and his rear rockers. A lot of the height he
gained was by the tires as far as I recall.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
will, i know i'm new to pre 67, but i'm pretty sure they all have redux.
boxes from the factory ;)
including both of mine
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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:15:17 -0400
Subject: [tcb] Re: mike everet
From: evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
What??? This sounds like ArklaCan engineering here?
Get a set of redux boxes and tall tires, it'll go up high enough. THe
coil overs from what I recall was in the front end.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Brian Denning
<i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
the only raising busses thread is the one kevin did and i'm not gonna
cut my tranny hanger to do a 2" tranny drop
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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:18:23 -0700
From: bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: mike everet
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Brian: I have 2 phone #s for him: Home 214-350-5373, cell
214-837-1379. Will not guarantee that those or good. They are rather old and
I haven't called him in a long time. If they do not work you might call Jack
Wenk at Black Gold Imports in Arlington and ask him either how Mike did it or
how to get in touch with Mike. Phone # at Black Gold is 817-633-1135 I think.
I do know that Mike did not do any major suspension modifications to his bus.
I think just coil overs and larger tires. There is also a thread on the samba
about raising busses.
Sammie
--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From: Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] mike everet
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, August 3, 2009, 9:25 AM
anyone have any kind of email or samba name on this guy??? mike
hayes suggested i talk to him about how he got his bus raised using coil overs,
would like the same effect on the 58, or even better, any of you know how i can
get the bus up about an inch without to much drastic work???
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