I replaced these turn signal lenses shortly after I bought the car. The lens covers quickly went milky in the sun and the rubber seals perished in no time. The areas of the lenses are covered by the fake plastic chrome cover still look immaculate. The Sprayway glass cleaner di...
After sitting through the winter, the battery in the beetlebug was dead. After having the car for two years, this is only the third time the battery has gone flat. The first time was actually not from a lack of use at all. I was in the habit of starting the car up and letting...
It had been a while since I last changed the oil. Though I haven't driven many miles, it seems like a good thing to do. I remembered something was strange last time around and I couldn't remember what it was, so I ordered a new sump cover and magnetic drain plug, along with a...
I spent the morning through early afternoon customizing the Wordpress template that I'm using here on the Tallulah Beetlebug site. I get itchy sometimes and hadn't ever been completely pleased with the look. Anyway, I hope you like it, if not the actual site content :) The ori...
Let's start this off by saying GET OUT OF MY HOUSE YOU TINY BABY RAT SNAKE! I'm glad it was outside of the tool bag. If I had found it in there wrapped up in my tools, it would have been a lot more of a shock. I don't have a phobia of snakes, but my monkey brain still tingles....
A few days ago, I ordered this Empi foam air cleaner (Amazon link). It's a good fit, but I feel like it could use a half inch riser on top of the carb. The air cleaner sits at a little bit of an angle against the top of the choke assembly. Also, the position of the crankcase v...
In the previous post, I found a nasty rust hole in the heater channel/frame in front of the rear fender on the passenger side. Through that hole in the side, I could also see the ground underneath, so there is more work to do under there. Today, I'm going to (not) repair the r...
In the previous post, I got started trying to replace the running boards, with only moderate success. It was a complete failure at replacing the actual running board. But, I was able to get all of the broken body bolts drilled out, tapped, and replaced. The hardware that came...
One of the first things I noticed when checking out this car before I bought it was the running boards were rusty and made crunching sounds when I pressed on them. I recently bought a new pair of running boards from jbugs (jbugs link). I started on the driver side. Removing th...
As a last ditch effort to getting the horn working again, I bought new horn ring hardware and replaced the missing wire insulator. Being too lazy (and frankly, stupid) to bother trying to thread that tinned wire tip through the tiny hole in the new plug, I just sliced it open...