2026 Jamboree Splitty
Sunday Brian Grimaldi volunteered to pick up working on the windows where David left off. There are about 50 miles of tiny channels that hold the many pieces of sealing rubber in place. On these windows they are all rusted and corroded and filled with years of dirt and grime. I thought that they MAYBE could be cleaned out with a dremmel and some of the very small attachments that might be able to get into those channels. Bill and I had looked at them on Saturday and weren’t sure if they could be cleaned out with anything short of very fine media blasting. But we had to give it a go with the dremmel first. Brian spent some hours trying every attachment in his and mine dremmel kits. Some work a little but most hardly worked at all. The channels are just too narrow. Very frustrating for Brian. He worked really, really hard on this but we had to finally make an executive decision, appropriate for Brian of course, to go the media blasting route. But thank you Brian for all your effort!
I spoke to Bill about media blasting and we are developing a plan that just might work. Stay tuned…..
2026 Jamboree Splitty -Sunday, Feb 1, 2026
Part 2
Forgot to mention…
I was able to get the brake line ‘T’ fitting attached to the bracket I made. Needed to attach a ‘Nut Cert’ into the bracket to make installing the bolt holding the fitting in place doable. Well, I’ve got a new installation tool that works in mysterious ways. It finally took watching a YouTube video to figure it out. Easy once you know how.
The final piece of brake line from the T fitting to the master cylinder was a short piece with easy bends. But it had to be a special, custom length made from a spool of NiCo brake line tubing with the correct VW bell type flares on the ends. I have the tool to make those flares but had never used it. So after much head scratching I gave it a go and it just worked great! I forgot to take a picture but I’ll take one Tuesday when I’m back at Russell’s…. Tomorrow I get to take my wife out to lunch.
And anyone who is installing brake lines and needs the lines flared, just let me know and I’ll try to help you out and show you how. It really is a nifty tool……
Author: John Manning
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