Natural phenomena & Beetle

Relatively stronger typhoon #18 did harm on Japan Island especially on Kinki, Toukai and Kanto areas and still now rains hard, TV News tells that it rained cats and dogs and winded hard causing considerable damages miserably. Our experiences piled every year cannot overcome and prevent these kind of natural disastrous phenomenon even now. The energy exerted by Earth is far stronger than our imaginations. It shows that our desperate effort in Natural Science cannot ride over the huge mountain.

3 residual brake operative cylinders and involved linkage construction inside in VW 1302 Super Beetle were checked and anchor mechanism were fairly adjusted. Especially, much attention was paid on the fitting between anchor adjuster groove and brake shoe filling to establish not line nor point touching but surface to surface connections at an adequate position as mentioned before. Resulting of these procedures, tight and firm brake pedal touching could be obtained and some precise rear brake shoe clearance with the drum inner surface made the difference of brake pedal activating angular positions with the conditions parking brake lever is pulled up or not. Also, rear hub inner and outer bearing were lubricated with Chrom-Molybdenum grease, just removing hub outer cap with 4 of 14mm head bolt and longer injection needle made it possible to put an additional lubricant on the position that cannot be reached unless removing the hub from hub case built in the trailing arm. Thank to these servicing and maintenance, any anxiety on lack of lubrication in any moving places belongs to this vehicle has wiped out and probably my Super Beetle would live longer from now than I myself do.