{"id":4937,"date":"2017-10-26T23:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T06:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:35:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:35:34","slug":"plugbug-working-on-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/plugbug-working-on-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug Bug: Working on repairs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>It has been just about a year since my 1969 VW electric bug was rear ended. I was driving to work and stopped in traffic, but the gal behind me didn\u2019t stop and squished the bug! Dealing with insurance took months, and I finally got a settlement for the bug, which was deemed totaled. For about $800 I had the opportunity to buy it back as a salvage vehicle, and I snapped up that chance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t too motivated to work on it\u2026other things came up, and I was enjoying driving my Tesla Model S. But now I\u2019m at the point where I miss driving it, and I want to see if I can make it run again.<\/p>\n<p>The main damage is to the rear deck lid (the engine trunk cover) and the rear apron (seen below in red).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0010.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0010.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 0010\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I ordered new ones from CIP1. I\u2019m going to make the rear apron removable to more easily install the transmission\/motor combination. The right fender has some damage, but I\u2019m hoping to be able to pound it out myself and do some quick body work to make it smooth again.<\/p>\n<p>I removed the rear apron by drilling out the spot welds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0025.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0025.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 0025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other major damage is to the transmission. It is toast. The front nosecone is damaged and leaking oil from a hole. I popped open the casing and the main gears are broken. It needs replacement, but unfortunately the local VW shop is now closed and I have to find somewhere else to get a new transmission. For now, I\u2019ll stick in my old one that makes a lot of noise to see if the motor works well enough.<\/p>\n<p>Another problem is the front transmission mount; it was squished forward. Luckily I was able to buy a new \u201cweld in\u201d one, and I cut the old out. Now I have to figure out how to get it aligned properly before I weld the new one in!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been just about a year since my 1969 VW electric bug was rear ended. I was driving to work and stopped in traffic, but the gal behind me didn\u2019t stop and squished the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/plugbug-working-on-repairs\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electric-bug","tag-plug-bug"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0010.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}