Update:
I'm almost finished with the VW interior, have a little touch-up and a few small things to do. Going has been slow. I have some back pain that puts me back on the sofa for a while after an hour or so in the shop.
I still have to reposition the door handles so the window crank doesn't hit them
but I towed the car out to the shop (where the lift is) to finish the mechanical work.
After years of being to busy to slow down and make a decent damn brake fluid receptacle - and subsequently, inevitably, spending more time cleaning up spilled brake fluid - I took the time to glue a soda bottle to a slab of wood so it wouldn't fall over, and drill the cap so a vinyl hose fit tightly in it. It took all of 20 minutes. How many hours have I spent cleaning up fluid after I knocked the bottle over? I'm an idiot - or used to be.
Pressure bleeders are the only way to go. You are supposed to put brake fluid in the tank and pump it through the system, but that wastes a lot of fluid. Plus I use Dot 5 in some of my cars, DOT 4 in others, and ATE in the 911 and don't want them getting mixed. So I just use the Motive to pressurize the fluid reservoir. I could have made one out of a hardware store pump sprayer for 1/4 the cost of this Motive if I'd had the foresight.
I bought new bumpers and running boards - the old ones were rusted to crap. The bumper brackets were rusted too, but I thought I could salvage them.
I put them in a bucket with some crushed limestone. It's not the best medium, but it's what I had.
I strapped the bucket to the wheel of my tractor and drove around a while, turned the compost, moved the chicken palace, and drove around some more. It did a decent job on the brackets, good enough that I could finish them in the sand blaster. It tore the heck out of the inside of the bucket too.
Once I get them painted and get the bumpers on I'll be almost finished.
I'm smellin' the barn now boys - gettin' close to home!