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Leaving Battery in for the winter
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Dr Honda
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The only charger I trust to do that (leaving it on all the time) would be a "Battery Tender." There are maintainers from other companies... but I don't trust them. I've owned too many that have cooked batteries.
Personally... if you are using a regular charger... I would just hook it up once a month or so.
I leave the batteries in all my toys. It's not a big deal... but you have to check on them once in a while.
Personally... if you are using a regular charger... I would just hook it up once a month or so.
I leave the batteries in all my toys. It's not a big deal... but you have to check on them once in a while.
Personally I don't leave any batteries out in the cold. My lawn tractor has the original battery from 2000. It is showing no signs of quitting either and has never seen a charger, ever! I take it out place it on a few 2x4's in my basement about 5 get from my heater. Same thing with my Speedster battery, but they seem to only last 5 to 6 years. Same thing with my 58 bug, I take the 6 volt battery inside, same battery since I finished the restoration in 04. The tenders are nice but the cold is what kills the batteries. Again, it's all personal preference, just wanted to share my experience. Just remember if you do pull the batteries do not set them directly on the floor, the concrete will suck the life out of the battery. If your keeping the ski inside then you shouldn't have a problem with a tender.
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OK... the old bug is cool... but 6v ??? ACK !! We were pulling the 6v system when I was in highschool. (mid 80's) I was lucky though. I lived in SoCal... and there was a "Buggy Shoppe" on every corner. (Johnny's Speed and Chrome was only a 10 min ride) We could get the conversion kit for about $80. Botch alternator, horn, and new lights. We would just run the 6v starter until it would throw a winding. (lol)
Anyway... you are right. They do live longer if you keep them from freezing... but I always replace batteries before they give me problems.
Anyway... you are right. They do live longer if you keep them from freezing... but I always replace batteries before they give me problems.
Sorry OP, didn't mean to muddy up your thread.
Ha, yes still 6 volt---remember I'm a purist when it comes to certain things. My bug was even a radio delete car, so all I listen to is the 36 HP Flat-4 singing it's tune through a NOS VW stamped muffler. I added the sliding rag top from another 58 and also semaphore turn signals. No gas gauge. It's as spartan as it gets. I'll say it's a time piece down to the white walls. Someone snapped the shots at a car shows, I have never uploaded any pics of it, I just happened to find these on thesamba.com, others posting pics of your car is a downside to the internet today. Here she is, the pics will show why it's 6 volt.
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Sorry OP, didn't mean to muddy up your thread.
Ha, yes still 6 volt---remember I'm a purist when it comes to certain things. My bug was even a radio delete car, so all I listen to is the 36 HP Flat-4 singing it's tune through a NOS VW stamped muffler. I added the sliding rag top from another 58 and also semaphore turn signals. No gas gauge. It's as spartan as it gets. I'll say it's a time piece down to the white walls. Someone snapped the shots at a car shows, I have never uploaded any pics of it, I just happened to find these on thesamba.com, others posting pics of your car is a downside to the internet today. Here she is, the pics will show why it's 6 volt.
WOW!!! That is shaweeet! You have some mad skills Dan!:thumbsup::cheers:
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Hey... what's the story on that green west'y with the big back window?
Yep... nice. 36hp... so, no heater hoses in the dog house ?? Well... you'll choke me for this... but in the 80's... and in SoCal... late 50's bugs were just junkers. (mid 50's to late 60's were a dime a dozen) So... I made a dune buggy out of one. Yep... I had a fiberglass buggy (JSC body) and it's title said 1958 on it. Only thing left of the original car was the pan, foot peddles, and steering column.
OP... sorry too. But I think we covered your Q's. But feel free to call us trolls.
Yep... nice. 36hp... so, no heater hoses in the dog house ?? Well... you'll choke me for this... but in the 80's... and in SoCal... late 50's bugs were just junkers. (mid 50's to late 60's were a dime a dozen) So... I made a dune buggy out of one. Yep... I had a fiberglass buggy (JSC body) and it's title said 1958 on it. Only thing left of the original car was the pan, foot peddles, and steering column.
OP... sorry too. But I think we covered your Q's. But feel free to call us trolls.
Thanks Pale Rider!
Westy's hatch is open, that's a screen.
You got it 36 HP were Stale Air systems not like the later 40Hp with the heater tubes off the shroud--mine come from underneath off the exhaust tubes in the heater boxes. The tubes are on, and I have NOS cable clamps but I never put them on. I'll never need the heat, it only goes out when the top is open.
Many nice bugs lost their battle to the dune buggy conversion, any bug 64 and earlier that I see that done to upsets me, especially an Oval window or Split window car. If it were done to a 65+ I could care less. My car was totaled when I bought it, rear ended into the back window. I sectioned a rear clip from the same vintage (so the sheetmetal would be stamped correctly, OCD). I cannot take full credit for the roof or semaphores, my friend who painted it installed them for me( he could do it in a 1/4 of the time it would have taken me), but all the other labor and sheetmetal work I did just about all by myself with a little help here and there. The interior was done in California by a guy who does interiors for some of the biggest restorations out in California, and countless cars in VW Trends and Hot VW's Magazines. The engine was line bored, crank trued, rods peened by Rimco out in Cali, and a good amount of NOS parts in that too. The car is a trip to drive, I love it.
Sorry for trolling again.
Westy's hatch is open, that's a screen.
You got it 36 HP were Stale Air systems not like the later 40Hp with the heater tubes off the shroud--mine come from underneath off the exhaust tubes in the heater boxes. The tubes are on, and I have NOS cable clamps but I never put them on. I'll never need the heat, it only goes out when the top is open.
Many nice bugs lost their battle to the dune buggy conversion, any bug 64 and earlier that I see that done to upsets me, especially an Oval window or Split window car. If it were done to a 65+ I could care less. My car was totaled when I bought it, rear ended into the back window. I sectioned a rear clip from the same vintage (so the sheetmetal would be stamped correctly, OCD). I cannot take full credit for the roof or semaphores, my friend who painted it installed them for me( he could do it in a 1/4 of the time it would have taken me), but all the other labor and sheetmetal work I did just about all by myself with a little help here and there. The interior was done in California by a guy who does interiors for some of the biggest restorations out in California, and countless cars in VW Trends and Hot VW's Magazines. The engine was line bored, crank trued, rods peened by Rimco out in Cali, and a good amount of NOS parts in that too. The car is a trip to drive, I love it.
Sorry for trolling again.
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Yep... Rimco in Santa Ana was where I sent my cases to, when I needed an align done. In all the years of sending stuff to them... I only lost one case. They tried to give me some crap that the aluminum "Crystallized" and it fell apart. After going back and forth... they made it right, and got me a new case.
I think the reason the early cars got so cheap (back in the day) was because most guys were into the "Cal Look" and they were lowing them. So... they wanted the IRS cars. (not the swing axles) The buggy/baja guys didn't care. An IRS and a kingpin front end was the ideal set-up for the street guys.
I'll have to dig up some old pics to post. (I'll do it later today)
VW's were always a good time... but it's been a lot of years since I messed with them. BUT... I think I still have an old Ray-Jay turbo system in the garage, for a type 1. (I'll have to dig it out) It was on a street bug, but the exhaust kept cracking... so I pulled it.
Oh... now that you said the hatch was open... I can see it up. (duh)
I think the reason the early cars got so cheap (back in the day) was because most guys were into the "Cal Look" and they were lowing them. So... they wanted the IRS cars. (not the swing axles) The buggy/baja guys didn't care. An IRS and a kingpin front end was the ideal set-up for the street guys.
I'll have to dig up some old pics to post. (I'll do it later today)
VW's were always a good time... but it's been a lot of years since I messed with them. BUT... I think I still have an old Ray-Jay turbo system in the garage, for a type 1. (I'll have to dig it out) It was on a street bug, but the exhaust kept cracking... so I pulled it.
Oh... now that you said the hatch was open... I can see it up. (duh)
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