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October 2019 Volume 28-10

OFFICIAL MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTRAL OHIO VINTAGE VOLKSWAGEN CLUB

Parade,Anyone?

The resurrection of a legendary

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Shifting Problems

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MeetingOctober 10th

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ZUNDFOLGEZundfolge (translated ‘firing order’) is published monthly by the Central Ohio Vintage Volkswagen Club. Its purpose is to keep us informed and running smoothly, while providing knowledge and enthusiasm into the Classic VW Community. Members are encouraged to submit articles and photos for the newsletter. Please contact the Editor for more informa-tion. Brian Knoll @ [email protected]

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In the Spring of 1991 our club was founded by 12 enthusiasts lookingfor a way to pool their parts and resources to maintain their vintage Volkswagen Cars. Now we are in our 29th year with about 200 members and the premiere Vintage Volkswa-gen club for Central Ohio. We Strive to share knowledge and resources while having plenty of fun. We welcome everyone interested in classic air-cooled as well as newer water-cooled VW products. Annually we host Ohio’s largest Volkswagen Car show & swap-meet ‘Volksfest’ to benefit Childhood Cancer Family Conection; an independent non-profit organization, devoted to the needs of children with cancer.

Board of Directors: Mark Garrett [email protected] 614.262.2881 Stark Hughes [email protected] 614.843.0751 Kathy Kern [email protected] 614.940.8047 Mike Roecker [email protected] 216.233.4456 Mike Williams [email protected] 937.390.3794 Linda C Brown [email protected] 614.253.4694 Richard Rambo [email protected] 614.551.6621

Secretary Debbie Garrett [email protected] 614.262.2881 Treasurer Todd Sichel [email protected] 614.252.1431 Membership Ryan Cisco [email protected] 740.709.0183 Historian Webmaster Ashley Cook [email protected] 419.681.0518 Zundfolge Ed. Brian Knoll [email protected] 937.206.9293

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Kathy Kern

Greetings all, the temperature dropped this week, and the leaves are starting to turn colors so yes its already fall, can you believe it? It has been a busy summer for all, I have been following you all that post to the Facebook page and all the other media sites, I missed the show (sorry), but as usual it was a great success! Thanks again to all who the volunteers who worked so hard to make it happen.

The campers in our COVVC club will soon be heading north to join Leakoil for the annual second weekend of October for the campout, tents are welcome. Go to the Leakoil forum for more information or feel free to contact me.

I have bad new regarding our meeting place, at our last meeting we were not well received at the 94Th Aero Squadron, it seems the manager that we had made our agreement with is no longer there. New General Manager Pamela Pasillas will not honor our agreement, she wanted $800 a night just to reserve the room. NO THANK YOUI myself and many of the others in the club are not happy with this, we were finally starting to see more new faces at the meetings and some that we had not seen in years, we will continue to look for a meeting space that will fit our needs and allow for new growth. Here are the main requirements: Location to attract members, Alcohol & Food, Larger & preferably quiet seperate meeting area. We also love to have plenty of parking for those beautiful VW’s!Let us know if you have any suggestions Richard and I love going out and checking them out, your always welcome to come along.

This month thankfully Valters at the Maennerchor is welcoming us with open arms. So let’s show him our thanks by having a great turn out for our meeting on Thursday October 10th. The address is: 976 South High St. Cols.

Lastly a little preview for next month! - Don’t forget we need active members, and November will bring us the election of officers that keep this club running for 30 years! Please consider stepping in and helping.

Fall is Here

Parade, anyone?


VW TecH... Tips, Tricks, Tools & Repairs Bruce AmackerShifting Problems con’t Replacing the Front Shifter Bushing

I started this topic last month talking about clutch issues that result in shifting problems. This month I’ll continue with transmission issues that result in shifting problems.

The front shift bushing is made of plastic and has a specific life expectancy, if it hasn’t been changed in recent memory it probably needs it. As an average, I’d guess they last 5-10 years at most with normal driving, and because the wear is slow you commonly don’t realize how bad it is until you replace it. Then it’s like, “Wow!” I’m glad I did that! It shifts great now! And, it’s only a couple of bucks. With the gearshift in a gear (I use 1st or 3rd) move the shift knob from left to right. If it moves more than a couple of inches, you probably need a shifter bushing. It’s not unusual for the gearshift to rattle if the bushing is shot, too. In a Type 1 car, it’s a bit of a pain in the backside but not terrible. There’s an access plate under the rear seat to gain access to the shift coupler. Once the plate is removed, run the shifter through the gears, put the trans in 1st or 3rd gear and move the shift knob from side to side. Do this while you watch the coupler and see if there’s more than a tiny fraction of an inch play in the coupler. If there is, replace it. Usually you have to buy the entire coupler but the only thing that usually goes bad are the two square rubber pads (later style coupler). If you have the early round coupler look for slop and replace accordingly. Make sure you tighten the bolts properly and use tie wire (properly!) on the lock bolts.

To replace the front shift bushing on a Type 1, remove the access plate under the rear seat, cut the tie wire on the front bolt, and remove the bolt. Remove the shifter and guide plate. Go under the front end and remove 2-3 more access plates, on a standard T1 one is between the beams, on a Super it’s near the spare tire well. There’s another in the front of the body which allows the shifter tube to slide forward, hopefully the body guy didn’t bondo over them! You may also need to remove the bumper on some models. Using a pair of long needlenose pliers and working through the shifter hole, work the shift tube forward 2 inches at a time. You don’t have to fully remove the tube, just get it forward enough to be clear of the bushing, but it’s a good idea to remove the tube. Lately I’ve been buffing the forward part of the tube (where the bushing rides) on the buffing wheel on my bench grinder. This allows the shift bushing to glide smoothly in the new bushing. Replacing the bushing is super easy once the rod is out, and don’t worry about dropping old bushing parts inside the tunnel, it’s OK to leave them there. Just don’t lose your new bushing behind the “hole” or you’ll be sorry. Point the split upward once it’s installed. Getting the tube back in its place can be a trial of patience as you have to maneuver it through a maze of control cables and other obstructions inside the tunnel with very limited access and working blind. I can do this alone but if it’s your first time it might help to have a helper fish the rear of the tube through your new bushing while you’re working the front of the tube under the car. I don’t lube it until it’s in as otherwise there will be grease everywhere if you lube it first. Once it’s in I use a spray grease with Teflon in it for the lube, spraying liberally while moving the tube around with the pliers. Connect the coupler, torque to spec, put the tie wire on correctly so it’s pulling to tighten the bolt, not loosen it. Install the shifter with some heavy grease in the socket, install the

access plates and you’re done. Some tinkering with the guide plate is normal to get your shift pattern in the right place and access to reverse gear. Go for a test drive and you’ll feel like Mario Andretti!

Replacing the shift bushing in Split and Bay busses is essentially the same but quite a bit easier as everything is easy to get at under the bus. The big issue will be the forward clamp under the seats that connects the front and rear shifter tubes together. This must be undone and if it’s


original from the factory I’ve always needed to glow it red with acetylene to free it up. I’ve seen plenty of butcher work here with Sawzalls and other tools of mass destruction so try to keep it professional. Even once the clamp is removed the tube will have to be heated to allow the joint to slide apart. If the lower shifter plate is loose (pictured below) using an 8mm stud temporarily to hold things together makes assembly much easier. If you have the tranny out of your split bus for any reason, remove the rear shift rod and replace the “shuttlecock” bushings, even if you think they’re OK. They only control noise but the trans has to be out to access them as the rear shift tube is removed from the rear. I’ve run out of space and will continue this next month. Winter is coming so now is the time to get a furnace installed if you don’t already have one to make tinkering more comfortable. Even if you don’t wrench, just having a warm spot to polish your ride is nice!

Ryan CiscoMeMbersHiP

Hello COVVC members! Do you need to renew? How do you know your membership has expired? Your expiration date is beside your name on the back of this newsletter. Need to renew? You can now renew your membership online on our website, www.covvc.org. Or if you prefer, you can pay at the next meeting, or you can send in a check.

Please make checks payable to COVVC and mail to: COVVC c/o Ryan Cisco, 5577 Mesa Falls Street, Dublin, OH 43016.

We had 5 renewals and 2 new members last month. Thank you for your continued support of the COVVC. Our current membership is at 162. New members: Doug & Nancy Barber (and Bella), Vince FontanettaRenewals: Mike Roecker, Pete Knoll Jr, Ron Baker, Tom Diley, Robert & Redajean Stinemetz

VW TecH con’TMike Williams

leT’s Talk Toys!

This month’s toy comes from a VW collection I was lucky enough to purchase several years ago. The collection was well over 950 pieces and contained many VW toys I’ve never seen before. I hope to write about additional toys from this collection in future articles.

The toy I’m sharing with each of you this month was manufactured by the Bandai Toy Company of Japan during the early to mid-1960s. This green friction powered tinplate VW bus is 8 inches long and represents a VW Single Cab. The toy has a very colorful tin lithograph interior insert with dashboard and plastic steering wheel. It’s fun to pretend you are driving the bus to the supermarket as you ‘drive’ the toy around.

The green version of this bus is a fairly rare toy. Very few examples of this toy ever come up for sale. In my many years of collecting, I’ve only seen a few examples for sale, and none of them came with a box. I’ve often wondered if this toy wasn’t a big seller or if kids just didn’t take care of their little VW toy. The value of this toy in good condition with no box is around $100 to $125, with a mint example with no box coming in around $350 - $375. It’s not uncommon though to see this toy sell well above these figures when collectors get into a bidding war over the same car Until next month… Happy Toy Hunting !!


It was rumored for years: Some grizzled, old desert rat had a stash of rare Volkswagen Microbuses stacked up in a warehouse in Moab, Utah. Retired off-road tour vans mothballed after 30 hard years with the first motorized tour company in the southeast part of the state. All split-window sunroof deluxe models, precious as the dinosaur bones, that the old man dug from the cracked red dirt. No, they aren’t for sale, and no, he won’t let you see them.

Turns out the rumor was true, the desert rat in question was named Lin Ottinger, and every true air-cooled nerd knew at least some of the details.

That was then, this is now. Lin, slim, tall, and 92-years-experienced, ambles in red plaid, blue jeans, and silver beard, through a patch of 31 old VWs next to his warehouse. Mostly buses wearing knobby tires, dead bugs, and battle scars. To our once-cynical hero, these are ostensible indicators that the breathless weirdos in his garage are of his ilk—cars, goddammit, are meant to be driven. That’ll happen as soon as he can rally us around his belated birthday present, a 1963 23-window Ottinger Tour Bus just put back on the road after 30 years of passive work in dust collection. Today’s agenda: active dust collection, on a rough and twisty piece of the old tour route in the crimson heart of Edward Abbey’s canyonland.

None of this seemed possible 10 years ago. Back then, Lin was seen as just another eccentric curmudgeon guarding a treasure chest of old cars he’d never sell nor pay any mind to. You know the type. It wasn’t a totally inaccurate characterization. Unlike the cantankerous shufflers who so unjustly crushed your barn-find fantasies, however, Lin had an honest reason: When you’re sitting on a treasure, the world is full of pirates.

All the notes and telephone messages and emails and in-person pleas to buy just one bus, please were bad enough. Then parts began disappearing off his eight tour-battered Volkswagens. Lin had retired them to a spot next to his famous rock shop on the main drag into Moab when he shuttered Ottinger Land Tours in the early ’90s due to increased restrictions on motorized travel along his route, now primarily contained in Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. His beloved buses and the Volkswagen community he once embraced had become, at best, a constant source of unnecessary stress.

Rock hunters, amateur paleontologists, and storytellers all, history is important to the Ottingers. Unfortunately, the new generation of Volkswagen fanatics didn’t display much respect for the family’s personal history. Disgusted, Lin hid his VW

exhibit away in the loft of an unmarked warehouse outside town. Things calmed down and mostly stayed that way until the early-2000s, when a photo surfaced on the internet: eight dusty split-window Buses packed sardine-tight in the back of a mysterious building, all but one of them sign-painted with a name and location, “Lin Ottinger, Moab, Utah.” Cue—and queue—the pirates....

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