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Happy Sunday…

The perfect storm continues…
The perfect storm from an overheated market where supply can’t meet demand with big shipping issues and shortage of raw materials (only to name a few reasons) continues.

Especially from our USA suppliers we get lots of price increases for almost all products.
As written before we try to avoid a general price increase and still manage to study product by product searching for alternatives where possible.

We have put extra manpower in this department in function to keep the increase as low as possible.
But all that doesn’t hold us to bring you another load of new products this week.

Welcome to the BBT news.

This clutch shaft bushing is made to guide your 16mm diameter clutch fork shaft in the right side in the bell housing of your transmission.
Many times replaced by a copper, bronze or plain steel bushing but original this was a purpose made bushing in plain bearing material.

We searched and found the OE supplier who made this bushing for the assembly lines back in the day and we succeeded.
The company still had the tooling and was willing to produce a new run for us.

Even minimum order quantity was quite a volume because of material needed we jumped and had those made for us.
Now you can guide that clutch shaft as smooth as when your beloved Volkswagen was still a baby, freshly born in the VW factory.

This type a bushings makes the difference between a “repair” to keep a car going, or a “restoration” to preserve your car for many generations to come.

All  our clutch shafts en kits for clutch shafts you can find HERE

1526-150 Bushing, Cross shaft 16mm, (Right in clutch housing) BBT

For our next new arrival we go to the other side of the clutch fork to present you the spring collar for the clutch shaft handle return spring.
Mandatory under every spring on all aircooled Volkswagen transmissions to avoid extra ordinary wear.

Made from stainless steel for friction and corrosion resistance.
Two models to choose from for 16mm or 20mm clutch shafts.

1531-200 Collar for Return spring on clutch shaft (16mm) Beetle, Karmann Ghia, Type181,Type3 -07/71, Bus -07/79 (002 transmissions)
1531-210 Collar for Return spring on clutch shaft (20mm) Beetle, Karmann Ghia, Type181, Type3 08/71-, Bus 08/75-07/83 (091 transmission)

Next product we have to go inside the transmission for this double tapered roller bearing that’s situated on the differential shaft.
This bearing fits the early (4 bolt style) transmission.

Made by SKF Germany in a private production for our supplier.
This guarantees perfect fit and quality.

1493-105 Double tapered roller bearing, differential shaft, Early (4-Bolt Style), Fits 1961-72 Type 1 Transmissions

Behind your wheel bearing on the rear axle sits this little 6.5mm wide spacer with its typical conical inside.
The wider bushings on the otherside of the bearing holding the oil seal you can find HERE

This is another proud BBT production.
Sold each.

1410-520 Bushing behind rear axle bearing – Beetle/KG, Type3, Type181 (all), Bus -07/63

Most beetles up to 1959 came with only one sunvisor for the driver.
Volkswagen made very soon this easy to mount accessory, so you can get a passenger sunvisor in a bolt on application.

This triangle mounts straight behind your interior mirror base and the body behind it.
This way you can mount our perfect reproduction right side sunvisor.

Smoked plexi sunvisors left and/or right you can find  HERE
52-59 interior mirror you can find HERE

0558-100 Rod, for sunvisor right – Beetle 46-06/57

 Let the music play… but that’s easy said without a speaker!
Hence we now supply a loudspeaker with its installation kit for your beloved Splittie bus!
Get that favorite song rolling down the road!

0525-720 Loudspeaker & installation kit – Bus 03/55-07/67

Finally back in stock…..

1601 Crankshaft 1300/1600cc

1245 Brake pads – Bus 08/72-07/85 (thick)

1819-0 Oil pressure screw in case (M18)

0691-6264 Wiring harness Beetle 1962-64

0595 Carpet kit Type3 61-72 black

1631-500 Lifters Type1 Engle 28mm (100gr) 8 pieces

Most core problems  for the Engle camshafts seem to be solved.
The grinders are now running overtime  to get all orders out.
We received a first nice badge and plenty more on the water!

1626 Engle W-110 Camshaft

7851 Front hood seal – Type3 08/69-07/74

The BBT News team wishes you all a perfect weekend.
Forecast for our part of the world is very stormy weather for the whole weekend…

Good excuse to dive in the garage and work that Volkswagen!

We loaded another container for USA.
This time we had to load an ultra rare SO34 Westfalia in Pearl white over Mouse grey along.

Ultra rare bus came in all original paint with a beautiful original interior.
Along with a nice parts order this was a cool container to load…:)

BBT Tim did a great job of loading, stuffing, lashing and securing,