After I finished priming the bottom of the frame, I painted it with heavy duty chassis paint. I will give this a few days to cure and then flip it back over upright. I can then focus on finishing the frame paint.
The VW bug’s frame is ready to be painted on the bottom. I will apply the primer and make sure that I get it into all the cracks and crevices, then I will put on any filler and repaint those parts.
More paint prep. Cleaning, scrubbing, filing and sanding I will soon paint this thing. This step has been along time coming.
Before painting the bottom of the frame I have a bit more welding and grinding to do. This boring video is basically a frame bottom wrap-up. Getting ready for paint.
I now have the e-brake cable sheaths mounted to the VW bug’s bottom plate. The next step is to locate and drill out the holes that will allow the e-brake cables to pass through the bottom plate. I will work on the nylon guides once I turn the frame upright again.
Now that I have my mounting locations for the e-brake cable ends, I have welded on the nuts that will hold everything in place. I am constructing two plates that will hold the cable ends in place using the factory indentions to insure that they stay solid.
Now that I have the e-brake mount locations, I am going to weld nuts to the bottom of the frame to hold the e-brake cable mounts. I will also be constructing small ramps to protect the mounts. Small steps to get the final product.
I now have new slide shows on the new “MR2 VW Bug pics page 7” page. MR2 VW bug pics page 7
Now that the frame has been flipped up-side-down again, I will try and get both the front sway bar mounts and the e-brake locations figured out. The sway bar mounts will be bolted to the frame with 3/8″ grade-8 hardware. I will be doing alot of thinking before I can claim that the underside of the frame is complete.
I again have flipped the frame over for some additional work. I will be adding the e-brake cabel mounts as well as the front say bar mounts. Once everything is figured out I will finish all the welding on the bottom and paint it.