State of Seabert

[Kirin Jacobsen]

Hi all,

Its been a very long time since I have made a post of this length. Today's number of posts has brought back a great bit of nostalgia for me. After all it was this list that actually got me my beetle. Anyways I wanted to give you a recap of whats gone on it probably about the last 15 years of owning this Beetle. I won't ever sell it, its got a life time place in my garage.

The car itself has gone through a few iterations. I did a refresh for my highschool grad with a new interior, fresh 1600dp, disc brakes and it was VERY slammomatic. It got put into storage for a year while I spent a year abroad. I came back sorted out the last few niggly things. Was all geared up to spend the show season enjoying the car when disaster struck. I got rearended on my way to an event that I had planned by another bug. It wiped out the rear apron, fender, decklid etc. At that point I wasn't quite sure what to do since the paint was pretty faded out most likely from some cheap respray. At that point with the encouragement of my friends I blew it all apart for a complete rotesserie resto.

It spent 3 years in the body shop. Luckily because it was a California car it had virtually no rust. Although the only original bolt on panels that are on the car I'm pretty sure are the hood, drivers front fender, and passenger door and possibly the passenger rear fender. Body work was slow. And amongst all this I moved out of town to go to university and life ultimately got in the way. 5 years ago I bought a house with a 23x23 foot heated shop(Long potentially cold winters here). The bug came home and I started working on it again after 8 months renoeing my 1962 British Columbia box house. 

I made decent headway and then eventually got engaged. And like what had happened in prep for the original tight deadline for my beetle, it happend again. I was determined to get it finished for my wedding. I managed to finish putting together the Resto-cal look car of my dreams. It turned out better than I expected, yet I can see all its flaws that probably no one else will ever notice. Its super gratifying to see it sitting parked some where and every one comments on how shiney it is.

And then after enjoying it for a month or so 6 weeks before my wedding the new 1914 developed a horrible rattle and lost power. I limped it home, tore it apart and found out that some piece of hardware had made it's way down the intake and had beat up cylinder head and piston top.

Luckily Volkswagen people are the best. I had friends loan me a 1600dp and my car managed to make it to my wedding. Over the fall I have torn the 1914 down and am just waiting on receiving the cylinder head back from Brothers Machine shop.

So of course I'm going to have a ton of questions. This is my first motor build. Albeit all the parts have under 1000 miles on them. Long term thoughts with this car are to eventually add air conditioning. I also terribly want a Split window van to round out the fleet. But I'm going to have to wait a bit on that.

In the mean time I have to finish sorting out my new daily driver(Nissan Xterra) and then it's time to figure out how to get this 1914 back together.

Enough ramblings for this evening. Thanks for reading.

-Kirin 

Seabert 1962 Turkis Restocal....

[Rayvwbug]

Hi Kirin. ,

Any pics of you, your bride, and your beetle at the wedding?  

Thanks

Ray 

Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone

-------- Original message --------
From: Kirin Jacobsen <kirinj...@gmail.com>
Date: 1/23/19 10:38 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: vint...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [vintagvw] State of Seabert

Hi all,

Its been a very long time since I have made a post of this length. Today's number of posts has brought back a great bit of nostalgia for me. After all it was this list that actually got me my beetle. Anyways I wanted to give you a recap of whats gone on it probably about the last 15 years of owning this Beetle. I won't ever sell it, its got a life time place in my garage.

The car itself has gone through a few iterations. I did a refresh for my highschool grad with a new interior, fresh 1600dp, disc brakes and it was VERY slammomatic It got put into storage for a year while I spent a year abroad. I came back sorted out the last few niggly things. Was all geared up to spend the show season enjoying the car when disaster struck. I got rearended on my way to an event that I had planned by another bug. It wiped out the rear apron, fender, decklid etc. At that point I wasn't quite sure what to do since the paint was pretty faded out most likely from some cheap respray. At that point with the encouragement of my friends I blew it all apart for a complete rotesserie resto.

It spent 3 years in the body shop. Luckily because it was a California car it had virtually no rust. Although the only original bolt on panels that are on the car I'm pretty sure are the hood, drivers front fender, and passenger door and possibly the passenger rear fender. Body work was slow. And amongst all this I moved out of town to go to university and life ultimately got in the way. 5 years ago I bought a house with a 23x23 foot heated shop(Long potentially cold winters here). The bug came home and I started working on it again after 8 months renoeing my 1962 British Columbia box house. 

I made decent headway and then eventually got engaged. And like what had happened in prep for the original tight deadline for my beetle, it happend again. I was determined to get it finished for my wedding. I managed to finish putting together the Resto-cal look car of my dreams. It turned out better than I expected, yet I can see all its flaws that probably no one else will ever notice. Its super gratifying to see it sitting parked some where and every one comments on how shiney it is.

And then after enjoying it for a month or so 6 weeks before my wedding the new 1914 developed a horrible rattle and lost power. I limped it home, tore it apart and found out that some piece of hardware had made it's way down the intake and had beat up cylinder head and piston top.

Luckily Volkswagen people are the best. I had friends loan me a 1600dp and my car managed to make it to my wedding. Over the fall I have torn the 1914 down and am just waiting on receiving the cylinder head back from Brothers Machine shop.

So of course I'm going to have a ton of questions. This is my first motor build. Albeit all the parts have under 1000 miles on them. Long term thoughts with this car are to eventually add air conditioning. I also terribly want a Split window van to round out the fleet. But I'm going to have to wait a bit on that.

In the mean time I have to finish sorting out my new daily driver(Nissan Xterra) and then it's time to figure out how to get this 1914 back together.

Enough ramblings for this evening. Thanks for reading.

-Kirin 

Seabert 1962 Turkis Restocal....

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[Kirin Jacobsen]

Sure got a bunch. Any suggestions on how to link them? They are on the usual social media suspects. 

-Kirin

[Rayvwbug]

I am not sure but I think you can link a few now?  Anyone else have ideas?  Thanks 

[No Quarter]

Since I'm on Kirin's facebook page, I could take some of his photos,
download them, put them on my webserver and post direct links for those of
you who don't have facebook.

If this is okay Kirin, perhaps share photos with me on my FB page and I can
use those.

NQ

Hi all,Its been a very long time since I have made a post of this length.

[No Quarter]

Did you ever figure out what or how that piece of hardware made it into your
engine Kirin? So much work for such a simple anomaly.

NQ

[Dave C. Bolen]

Guys,

Ahhh...the good old days.

Kirin, I turned my first VW in about 1970. Friend had one that mad bad
noises and then wouldn't start. Went to the bank, borrowed $100.00 and
bought it from him.

Took the engine out, took inside on the kitchen floor and took off one of
the heads...just picked one. Inside #3 cylinder was the infamous
pict carb accelerator pump injection tube(brass thank godness).

Picked it out cleaned up a little and then put it back together.

Tote the engine back out, put in the car and drove the daylights out of it
for several days. Sold it for $350 I think.

Paid the banker off in less than 3 weeks and he was delighted...turned out
I did so much VW business with him he just told me to start having people
draft on him for the cars I bought. This was in the good old days when
you actually knew your banker.

I did a *lot* of that type of fixing. Turns out there was a place over in
Ft. Worth with nothing but wrecked VW's for cheap. Some were not too bad
and could be fixed up in order to make a little money.

My best one was a lateish model KG *convertible*. Fanciest Vw I had been
in up to that point. Top had been ripped pretty badly but amazingly it
was really nice otherwise. Went to the vw junkyard, bought a whole new
top in one piece and just literally bolted it in. I made an
astounding(for the times) $1,000 off of that deal. Astounding cause I
lived in a slum house(while going to college) and was paying $50 a month
for rent. Cost me more for gas to keep it warm than for rent.

Yes, we want to know what was in the cylinder!

Cheers, dave

[Kirin Jacobsen]

Pretty sure I dropped a carb screw down it's throat when I was installing the jet snorkels. Totally my bad.

-Kirin

[Mike B.]

Kirin,

You might try a flexible digital camera borescope w/light source in thru the sparkplug hole to get a look see inside the cylinders.  I have one.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Endoscope-Waterproof-Inspection-Compatible-Smartphone/dp/B07CNY5KMY/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&qid=1548376758&sr=8-19&keywords=phone+borescope+with+light

 

Some small objects dropped into a cylinder will pass thru and out the exhaust with little or no damage.  Some objects  bounce around in there for a while and create lots of damage to the piston top and head chamber.  Usually when you take the head off you find what’s left of the object and can confirm what it is (was!).

I stuff a blue rag into the carb throat(s) while doing such work on an assembled engine.  You could also add a magnet in the area to attract a dropped item (if it’s steel).

 

 

Mike B.

 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

From: Kirin Jacobsen
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 5:34 PM
To: vint...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [vintagvw] State of Seabert

 

Pretty sure I dropped a carb screw down it's throat when I was installing the jet snorkels. Totally my bad.

-Kirin

[No Quarter]

Based on Kirin's facebook posts, he's already pulled the head is well on the
way to getting it rebuilt. It nicked up the piston and head pretty good.
Once he reads these posts, if he'll let me know if he wants me to post links
to his photos on my website or not, I'll do it.

NQ

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[Kirin Jacobsen]

Feel free to post at will Nq.  They are already Facebook or zuckerbergs property. Engine is already blown apart. Going to be asking a bunch of questions in the near future.

-Kirin 

[No Quarter]

https://elassleybie.incolor.com/temp/kirin/

I found 4 photos to share from Kirin's collection. I thought I had seen a
picture of the top of the piston, but if I did I can't find it now. He did
have a picture of the cylinder that was all nicked up. The other 3 photos
are great wedding photos with Seabert.

Anytime you want some photos shared Kirin, please let me know and I can
upload them to this directory to share with the gang here.

NQ

[Mike Bucchino Sr]

Great wedding pics! That head damage is fairly minimal. It could be run just like that with a little clean up to prevent hot spots. I have seen MUCH worse.....running!

Mike B

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[Rayvwbug]

Great pics.  Any woman who wants a bug in her wedding is worth her weight in gold

Ray

Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone

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From: No Quarter <sil...@beatricene.com>
Date: 1/25/19 6:36 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: vint...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [vintagvw] State of Seabert

[Ray Yoder]

Hi All,

Has anyone ever purchased a wiring harness?  I recently saw a harness that had some brass terminal ends and some that appeared to be aluminum.  Trying to be sure I find a good one.

Thanks

Ray

[Kirin Jacobsen]

Wiring works is the best. Mine for my 62 came from Wolfsburg west and is top quality. 

- Kirin

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[bert.knupp]

Kirin,
I was totally pleased with what I got from Wolfsburg West. A caveat: tell them exactly what model and equipment you have. Whether backup lights (1 or 2?), type of front parking-lights (inside headlights? Atop fenders?), Zweikreisbremsen, etc. They know what they're doing if you tell them everything.
Bert