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More factories, more parts, more machines and….more friendly people, we’re in Brazil after all!

Rubber mixing, the preparation of the rubber for the extrusion machines…. hard work!

This is the inside of a rubber extrusion machine and mould…:)

Extrusion machines are not exactly small! Pretty impressive right?

Hard working factory employees finishing our products as it should… Multo obrigado guys, Thank You very much!

More extruders, this place had plenty!

And yes, we like to check on inventory, in a country as Brazil it tells a lot about the financial situation of the company…:)

Up to the next, smaller, supplier. But here the aim on quality and service is extremely high! We just love these guys!

As You can see they’re extremely well organised….

Happy workers, means many times good quality jobs!

Let’s learn about oil pumps, and find out to start-up production for 25/36 Hp correct oil pumps….

This IS Mr Oilpump himself! Assembling oil pumps for over 35 years, any questions? Plse ask!

Cup grinding of oilpump covers, for a perfect finnish!

Hardworking people, finishing oil pumps….

This is an aluminum extrusion machine…. you really should feel the heat! Astronomical!

This tooling extrudes around 7000 oil pump housings a year for aircooled Volkswagens. There’s two tooling for the base… together they “pump” around 12.000 units yearly… all to keep our aircooled friends on the roads!

This machine grinds the gears for the oil pumps, very specific job!

In another (small) factory we discussed a production of early vent wings, but quality was not there yet, let’s see what the future brings… there was other interesting projects going on here too, more later…:)

Next stop was a factory that is specialised in small parts casting, alu and zinc extrusion and fuel pumps….

We will try to bring back all model fuel pumps in their original looks, not just as a replacement spare part, but as a full value restoration part. Details are important for our cars, especially in the engine bay!

You like soup? Hot aluminum around 700°C!

He guys don’t look so serious, its only VW parts!

Time to drive back to the hotel, back to the city…

Lots of driving, we spends many hours in the car… And too many visits, but we learn a lot and meet many of our suppliers, can discuss many many products, quality, delivery times etc… is it worth it? You bet, somethings You can only do in a personal contact, it simply don’t work by phone or email….

First week is over, another week to go! So stay tuned!

We enjoyed some beautiful winter days, while Bob and Jerry enjoy hot and humid summer days in Brazil, visiting suppliers and manufacturers….

We all can enjoy BBT News this week, with cool new products, which we like to introduce with this weekly Friday BBT NEWS edition…

We had the green corner windows already longer in our program, but now we like to present the clear ones as well…

They fit all 15 and 23 window buses including the Brazilian made 15 windows…

Sold each….

8949-710 Corner window – Bus 03/55-07/63 clear (1)

We like to present also the rocker under the sliding door for the T25/T3 or Vanagon (what’s in a name?)

The rocker for the left side (non sliding door) we already supplied for a  longer time under BBT ref 0892-300, and  now we enlarged our vanagon program with the right side. This is the rocker under the sliding door…

This rocker comes complete with the profile that holds the sliding door rubber below.

0892-301 Sill right – Bus 05/79-07/92

The seal for the sliding door can be found HERE

The treated plugs which hold the bolt for your security belts was already longer time available under BBT shop part n° W776-ZVW20PLUG, but out of popular demand we brought them into our general program.

This is an adaptor plug from the large 24 mm hole to the later 7/16”, but can also be welded in . We supply them with the proper bolt and washer for a correct installation of your safety belts.

Safety for everything…. Now you can install safety belts in any old classic car, that was not previewed to have these necessary safety devices…

Sold per set of one bolt and one plug.

0573-200 Seat belt adapter plug – Beetle 62-65, Bus 62-67

Following products came back in stock after a longer time being unavailable…

0909-500 Support clutch cable tube Beetle 72-74

1239-47 Emergency brake support rod right – Bus 02/73-07/79

1239-961 Emergency brake support right – Beetle/KG 10/57-

1239-890 Emergency brake handle left – Beetle 09/57-
1239-891 Emergency brake handle right – Beetle 09/57-

Various items are being removed from stock to make room for new ones. Of some items there is only 1 left in stock. So be quick, because GONE = GONE Prices excl. VAT

Air jet, Dellorto DRLA

2193-1-170 = Ø 170
2193-1-205 = Ø 205
2193-1-210 = Ø 210
2193-1-220 = Ø 220

6,55 euro

Air jet, Weber progressive

2193-2-185 = Ø 185
2193-2-195 = Ø 195

1,49 euro

2194-1-170 Fuel jet, Dellorto DRLA Ø 170

2,55 euro

2195-3-070 Idle jet, IDA Ø 070

2,95 euro

BBT NEWS team wishes you a very relax winter weekend… and for Bob and Jerry a way to hot and extreme humid Brazilian adventure weekend, ah!

PS don’t mess up Bob and Jerry with Tom and Jerry they’re from different comics…:)

We visited some serious injection factories who make all kind of neat stuff for all and new cars, for OE (assembly lines) as for aftermarket… and now they understand they have a third market, the Classic car market…

Very interesting products been discussed and development of other products has been evaluated… good things to come….)

Unbelievable we need this kind of big machines to make parts for our beetles and buses, always wonder how they did it in 1951?

A mix of pictures from several factories we visited….

We always like our manufacturers employe happy people, and that was for sure her, they all waved to us!

These girls assemble small parts, whole day long…. for us, to put on our Volkswagens!

We saw big injection machines, these machines You need to make all kind of plastic, for an example the side protection plates for 73-76 beetle seats….:)

We saw even bigger injection machines, these are for large parts, currently this machine don’t make parts for us yet…

This is the inside of an injection machine, man can only wonder what such a tooling cost…:)

Something completely else… a pneumatic assembly machine for door switches, one model only, 6000pcs a day…. crazy!

What we’re cooking today Jerry?

An eagle view from an injection machine set up… three machines, one operator….

We visited several lab’s, quality control, material evaluation, production quality etc etc… this one was really impressive, as it was really ultra clean!

Something else again…:) very well organised factory make electrical components mainly, this visit was a blast!

Springs, who need springs? this is a fully CNC operated Spring making machines, all kind of springs….:)

We saw raw material in tons and tons, good factories protect themselves in Brazil with inventory, because the market tendencies are way more volatile as for an example in Europa its necessary to think ahead and has a huge inventory, what start with raw material off course, here for 6 months.

Off course it’s also a guarantee for your workers they have at least six more months work!

This a part of a tooling department from one of our suppliers. The days that Brasil had only dirty small factories hardly under a roof are over.

Brasil now a days is a modern economy with lots of modern factories…

If You like tooling, well check them out here… as Jerry did…:)

These tooling make a lot of Volkswagen parts …..

Oh inventory is real necessary as said before, also from finished product!

This is IGP, one of our suppliers for fenders, floorplates etc… the factory is on both sides of the streets…:)

We we’re kind a late so we didn’t make a factory tour, only had a boring meeting regarding some quality issues, but, we came out with a cool new plan… stay tuned for updates…:)

Tha way back to the city; Sao Paolo skyline or part there off… crazy city, crazy people, crazy business, we just love it….

Happy we’re working again on better parts, and help out problems for the entire VW community…

we continue our travel report on saturday as tomorrow (friday) we have the weekly BBT NEWS with all new arrivals for the week… so a lot o come…:)