Progress at Caught The VW Bug

I am happy to announce some, yet little progress at Caught The VW Bug!

In the last post, there was a meltdown within the team. It's evident that the sun has finally arrived for us to stay for a while and that inherently means (and fellow VW owners will agree) that the Bugs don't ever work. They last all winter in the vicious conditions but now the parts evidently get too worn to use and breakdown. The biggest culprit of this was especially McCartney who was in the Doghouse for a bit before I rekindled my spirits for him and decided to get hands on and source the problem.

At least McCartney looks nice...

We deduced that a fuel pump issue was the problem and that means no fuel to the car and it can't thus turn on without it. We are sourcing another fuel pump and I am glad to announce this as we have tried about 6793 potential solutions to find the problem so we're on the up!

Also, Parker's 12 step recovery took a backfoot but is now getting there, I will be writing more on him later so watch this space for him and his transformation to pass his medical by the MOT (Medics of Transport) team.

Therefore, this did mean that Sting won't be going to Stanford Hall which is a big disappointment as the time frame arrived far too quick than we expected. However, we will look forward to taking our time fixing him up over the year, along with Jake.

Not making it to Stanford Hall VW Show. Gutted.

UPDATE: Turns out the fuel pump is fine and the poor '68 Beetle's fuel line has a problem. Nearly 3 hours were spent yesterday evening finding the problem and what is it? Gravity of course!The fuel doesn't run up the route too well and isn't getting to the engine whatsoever.

I am looking forward to collecting my degree in physics as soon as we collect the car as this is turning out to be a mammoth job.

Dumped by the roadside.

Help us all.

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