[T3] Roof rack, fog lights, paint

[John L. Morgan IV]

Anyone made their own wood slat roof rack for a fb? How have people mounted
driving lights to the newer bumpers? Anyone gun a car himself? What type of
paint if so?

On Saturday, November 1, 2014, Dave Hall <dave at hallvw.clara.co.uk> wrote:

> The originl Type 4 heater boxes were little more than cased steel tubes,
> not
> the cast alloy finned parts that the Type 2 bus and Type 3 got.  The bus
> with an upright Type 1 engine was diabolically cold, even in the UK winter,
> but luckily there was room to wear a very thick coat.  ;-)
>
> Dave
> UK VW Type 3&4 Club
> ===================
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: type3-vwtype3.org [mailto:
> type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org <javascript:;>]
> On Behalf Of Keith Park
> Sent: 01 November 2014 19:41
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org <javascript:;>
> Subject: Re: [T3] heater thermostats
>
> yea, thats why I took out the Thermostats and blocked off the elbows, it
> was
> when I put the T4 motor in it and when the T3 engine went back in, I just
> left them out.  I DO get more heat, I swear!  but with the 72-4 T2 heater
> boxes on the T4 engine its really quite toasty in there rather quickly.
>
> KEith
>
>
> Topnotch Restorations
> topnotch at nycap.rr.om <javascript:;>
> http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm
> 71 Squareback  "Hothe"
> 65 Squareback  "Eggcrate"
> 65 Notchback  "El Baja Rojo"
> 93 RX7  "Redstur"
> 87 Golf  "Winterat"
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: type3-vwtype3.org [mailto:
> type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org <javascript:;>]
> On Behalf Of Jim Adney
> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2014 10:39 AM
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org <javascript:;>
> Subject: Re: [T3] heater thermostats
>
> On 31 Oct 2014 at 20:12, Keith Park wrote:
>
> > after 344Kmi I had one of my metal tubes break off at the front
> > bracket
> this
> > past week, and that was with NO hose on it, so eventually time catches
> > up with them even with the paper hoses on them.
>
> That's pretty surprising, but I often find that those brackets have been
> bent a few times by the time I get to them. It often takes a bit of work to
> get them back in the correct shape. I've never seen one broken, but I can
> imagine that one could, especially if it had been weakened by too much
> previous bending.
>
> With the Type 4 conversion, you don't get anything equivalent to those
> pipes, do you? So you really don't have any choice about what to do with
> the
> heater mixer boxes.
>
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