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snuffelupabus
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These photos are filed as october 2007 but I think its sometime in the summer.
Took advantage of a nice day to clean out the garage. moved the bus outdoors and took some pictures. Its starting to look like a bus.
People laugh that I put the vw badge on without the exterior finished. I argue that it is part of its identy. Come on folks, you all do it.
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snuffelupabus
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Some pictures from December 2007. This is the area under the front cab area. Its a before set of pictures and will prove to be great in comparing the before and after of the process I used to clean up the rust. There was no serious rust here, just surface rust. Running your hand over the areas would cause rust rain. Its now I should say, this bus was never placed on a rotisserie. all done on jack stands and a creeper.
These pictures were also taken as a record on brake line routing.
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snuffelupabus
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Pictures from January 2008. Under the cab area. My process. First stripped all bolted on parts. Cleaned up all the loose surface rust and flaking paint. Mostly used a wire brush and hand rubbing, I’m under the bus in a creeper and was afraid a power tool would kick back on my face. I will be using POR 15 and it likes a rough surface to bite into.
Once the rust is cleaned up I prepped the surface with the POR 15 prep procedure. I think this step is important, I’ve seen some people have the POR 15 fail on them and when asked they say they didn’t prep per the instructions. Follow the instructions! So once prepped I brushed on two coats of POR 15. Once dry, a few days, I scuffed the surface with 100 grit. Sanding this stuff is like sanding rocks! It has a porcelain like surface. When sanding I was not overly concerned over sanding through the POR 15, where I sanded through was typically to bare clean metal. 99% of the POR surface is intact. After the sanding is complete I sprayed on two coats of epoxy primer, DuPont DTM. After the DTM cured I sprayed 3 coats of high solids primer surface. The finish was fantastic and is totally sealed from advancing rust. Eventually I used this procedure for the entire underside. In future installments I will finish paint the underside.
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Sloride
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snuffelupabus
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So again its january 2008 and I am installing a adjustable beam and drop spindles. Somewhere along the way I also put in a IRS setup. I was origionally doing a lowerd swing axle but the entire back end of a beetle fell on my lap and since i had all the bits but none for swing, I went IRS. unfortunately no pictures of the install this time. Maybe after paint.
front end bits
beam in
front back together, with freshly painted rims and new tires.
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snuffelupabus
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fast forward to november 2012. Myself and wifey built a new house, it has a two car attached garage but no workspace. project was put on hold untill a proper shop could be built. I built a shop 28 wide 26 deep and in november moved the bus to is new home. for the past couple of years i was busy with the bodywork. making two cargo doors out of four. repairing a rusty passenger door and replacing the windshield frame. it is now at the point where i have most of the bus bolted back together and everything checked for fit. The winter of 2013 will be spent on final paint prep.
Bus in new Garage with the other toy.
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Big Bill
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The bus is looking good, and your mancave is to die for.  |
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I like the look of the deluxe trim on an 11 window. Was this bought new or used? If bought new, were you happy with the quality?
Gordo.
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Nice work! 
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snuffelupabus
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Thanks guys.
Gordo. Its origional deluxe trim off a '66. I'm missing the little 2" piece on the B pillar. I will keep a eye out at OCTO in June. The trim is in good shape and polishes out nicely but you can see a slight depression at each screw point. I am a little worried that it will look bad against the new paint.
The '66 deluxe also donated the passenger door, inner window frame of a cargo door, hinge frame of another cargo door, windshield frame and the engine lid which I cut and patched the lower inner frame '65 church key latch into. |
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snuffelupabus
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febuary of 2013. Getting ready to spray the underside. I'll be doing the entire underside in the lower body color. Not the way the factory did it but the way I like it
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snuffelupabus
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Still febuary 2013. Sprayed the underside. Color is Nutria L575, a type 3 color. Its base/clear. I know the purists will not approve of the color, the base/clear or the fact that i painted everything but I like it. I do like the deep, origional look of a single stage paint but its not what I'm going for on this bus. The entire underside was painted while on jackstands, me on a creaper. Not ideal, especially when spraying the clear (sticky floor), but it can be done with good results.
I masked the body from overspray.
some of the suspension is installed here as well. still some moving to do on the mounts.
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I love that color!
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snuffelupabus
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Drop out Bob.
So May of 2013, painted all the door jambs. Bottom Nutria, top Beige Grey. I spent some time thinking on how to do this, finally settled on painting the jambs and stuff with the bus apart then putting it together and painting the overall bus. I was concerned about the two tone line matching up on the panels if done apart. It seems to have worked out ok, but for some overspray on the jambs when i did the rest. we'll get to that...
Sometimes the Nutria looks darker than it should, like its the '80's Vanagon color, other times it looks right. I'll have to roll it out into the sushine to get a true idea of the color.
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Looks like you are about right with the location of the two tone on the hinge area.. found this in the gallery. Not sure how original it is...
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snuffelupabus
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Interesting. Your photo seems to show the colour change hidden under the hinge. Also the other photos show the lower colour wrapping around to the inside. I don't doubt this is correct but at the time it seemed more logical that the colour change be hidden under the weatherstrip. In fact, I'm pretty sure that at some point I had checked this site to confirm the proper method. I think I must of convinced myself I was right.
I did know that the rear hatch lower colour was only applied on the outside. I chose to wrap the colour to inside the edge because I was afraid of seeing the upper colour on the edge. I regret doing this now as the lower colour inside doesn't look 'natural'.
The method your photos show would have saved a couple hours masking time. I'll know now for next time, Tho the next one will be a single colour double cab.
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snuffelupabus
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June 2013. Paint applied. I pretty much painted it and then forgot about it for a few months. Had a busy summer with other projects. I had a bit of orange peel in the paint and knew I'd have to sand an buff but that will not happen till fall.
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