RE: [T3] Test drive!!

["gray, douglas" <douglas.gray@judicial.state.co.us>]

Congrats Daniel. Was the chatter from the front or the rear brakes?

Doug


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniel Baum [SMTP:daniel@type34.info]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:40 AM
> To:	type3@vwtype3.org
> Subject:	[T3] Test drive!!
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I drove my car 35km this evening! It went _really_ well, the only 
> letdown is a nasty chatter in the brakes. It is not life threatening, I 
> think, but definitely needs seeing to asap.
> 
> The most impressive thing was the way it cruised the motorway 
> effortlessly at 90kph (that's 65mph). It felt like I could have got more 
> out of it, but given the state of the brakes I thought it best not to.
> 
> It feels a bit heavy going up steepish hills in third (i.e. top). If I 
> manually downshift to second the revs go way up but it felt happier. I 
> found that I had to let off the throttle a bit while upshifting back 
> into third otherwise it stayed in second until it reached what felt like 
> about 7000rpm but was probably only about 4000. The kickdown doesn't 
> work yet, so I manually downshifted. It never downshifted by itself.
> 
> So, tomorrow I'm taking it for its test (!). It only has to get there 
> (65km) in its present state as the first stop is a garage who will look 
> at the brakes.  Once the brakes have been seen to (and possibly 
> ball-joints etc.), it's off to the testing station, so wish me luck. 
> Having seen how it goes, I am not particularly concerned about getting 
> there, as it is flat motorway the entire way.
> 
> This is probably the first time the engine has been properly heated up 
> since I got it. I'm pretty sure it didn't overheat (I could still touch 
> the engine even after we got home), but there was some smoke from crud 
> and oil burning off the exhaust. The stuff in the rear boot was warm, so 
> I won't be putting ice cream in there on the way home from the
> supermarket!
> 
> I should add for those of you who are not familiar with my life story 
> that I have been working on this car for the last three years, and this 
> is probably the first time it has seen a road for about seven years.
> 
> Daniel Baum,
> 1969 Type 34 Karmann Ghia automatic
> www.type34.info
> 
> 
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