SUMMER HOLIDAYS, TIME TO REBUILD YOUR ENGINE...

After dismantling Gloria´s engine it was time to re-build it properly. I got hte new cylinder heads with their new valvles on and the club crew met to have a lot of fun... We desperately need a new look as we seem to get more and more greasy-like.

We took the crane case to a nearby petrol station to clean it with high pressure water and grease cleaner.

Here a close up with a nice view of El_Gofio´s selfmade engine stand:

It was nice to see the main body colour back again: beautiful grey!!

Back to the garage we started the funny re-building task


And then we were four as Kiko never misses a hard work session!

It looks much better now, all the seals are new, every screw, nutt and bolt, and the oil pipes as well. Maybe tomorrow everything will be ready for the re-start ceremony!

COMING SOON....NEW PROJECT?

Maybe in a week or two....

WE´RE THE CHAMPIONS!!!!

we are the champions my friend!!!! Football Eurocup Winners!!!!

Felicidades a todos los que sentimos los colores de la selección

NEW BUS IN THE BLOCK. (KIKO´S BUS)

Hi everyone!
Today we´ve been pretty busy admiring the first bus in the club: a baywindow deluxe walk-through 8 seats 2000cc!!! Here we can see Kiko, its proud owner, showing off about his new project!!


It was imported to the Canary Islands in 1973 and later adapted a 2000cc engine from a T3. There were lot of spareparts inside so much that it was almost impossible to open the sliding door without things falling onto the pavement! One of the most valuable spareparts is this original VW dashboard clock that fits into the instruments panel perfectly!

Here there are all the stuff (behind is Zeben´s doka with the tilt and canvas on!!)

Jesus, our particular daredevil driver, had the important mission to drive her into the garage where she´s going to be caressed and refitted for the next months...

And at last all the DokaClub crew and the new-comer, our first bus!! (it´s like having a baby...)


Por cierto beam-scrapers, el mail de la página web de uds no me funciona. ¿Pueden contactar con el mio? Hay pendiente un cafelito en el Jagua, o en el Kiosko de Fidel...

GREETINGS FROM AND TO BKS HOODRIDE

Today I was amazed to see our dokas in those guys cool blog

http://beamscraps-vw.skynetblogs.be/

It seems we´re neighbours here in la Orotava (¿un cafelito ahí en el Jagua?) We like their style and we envy their mechanical habilities!!
One of the members of the Doka Club is "hoodriding" himself more and more, and here it´s the proof:

apart from his other ride (lower is difficult!):

We have to make contact!! A ver cuándo nos vemos!!!

IF ANYONE FALLS...

Yesterday while Spain was playing vs Russia and won 3-0, we were unscrewing everything on Gloria´s engine. At last we left the crankcase alone with the cylinder heads off. By the way, both were ruined, thank God I´ve got another rebuilt pair!

Definitely, if something might go wrong you can be sure it will! After a crazy day running from one spareparts shop to another, I couldn´t find all the spares I needed, and Jesus (our McGiver man) is gonna be off from Monday till September, so Gloria (my orange/beige Doka) will have to wait at least along July & August sleeping in the garage for better times. I´m afraid it won´t be on time for September 7th meeting. Quite disappointing! I´m seriously considering to quit this aircooled passion, sell the pickup and collect stamps or something really relaxing....

WISHING WELL: I´D LIKE MY ENGINE REPAIRED...

Hello again!
After almost a month stopped due to the broken cylinderhead, the boys from the Doka Club decided to take Gloria´s engine out to dismantle and repair it.

It was a great time to open the well in my garage that has been closed for the last 13 years! Here Kiko & EL_Gofio are under Gloria unscrewing everything to take the engine out of her.

After an hour or so, the engine was left on the floor and we had to elevate the doka to slip it backwards...
It was a hard work because our tools were not the best, but we tried the Venezuelan way: If you have to lift her, do it anyway! And it worked!!

At last the aircooled engine was out, and the other 3 members of the Doka Club posed showing their happiness to have a new vicitim for their wicked surgery...

Today we´ll finish the dismantling process and we´ll clean it carefully so that tomorrow everything will be ready to mount it and start it again.
Tonight more pics to come...