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Joey
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Two coats of POR 15. One more to go...
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skills@eurocarsplus
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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good work! but i have to ask, if your nose keeps evaporating every few years, what the hell does the bottom of your bus look like?
i like rust too. click my "click here" in my sig line. i can appreciate the work you're doing 
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Joey
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:22 am Post subject: |
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Actually, the bottom is still solid, including the rockers.. I've been applying Rust Check to the chassis, inside the rockers, doors, outriggers, front beam and any other place I can get it for the last ten years.
Here some other pic of what I repaired over the last few months:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150309...amp;type=1
It's my winter vehicle so I know it's going to rust. When the chassis or beam starts to rot out then I will call it a day.
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Joey
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First coat of green paint (Tremclad) on:
You can kinda see I didn't bother to fully grind down the weld on the bottom of the repair... I'm going for the Frankenstein look.
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kuleinc
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I need to do this to my bus, its a 68, and the nose is dented from a previous owner's misjudgement of the stoppingness of the brakes. I'm having a hard time locating a low light nose though...
I like your work, makes me want to learn to weld!
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Joey
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Windshield is installed!
Gap between the metal and the rubber here...
...and here, probably because of my weld repair.
The windshield rubber seal (http://www.cip1.ca/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=C16%2D241%2D121COE) was a bitch to get on the glass. I had to get the wife to help hold it on on one corner as I worked it around the glass. Once it was on it fit real good. She also helped with the install, she pulled the string from the inside as I pushed on the glass from the outside. Once the paint hardens a bit more I'll shoot some windshield urethane adhesive under the windshield rubber to seal things up.
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Westfabulous
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I just bought that German seal for my bus. Haven't installed it yet, but it looks to be a very good quality seal at a very fair price. I couldn't find a seam on mine anywhere; it was like a continuous piece.
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Joey
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:33 pm Post subject: Front Nose Replacment & windshield frame rust repair |
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The seam is very hard to detect. It's in the middle on top. It fit very well in my hacked & slashed window opening... 
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kuleinc
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I'm trying to find a new nose panel, are only used ones available for the low light buses?
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maximan1
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Sweet! My thread was used as an example again!
For the record though, my left body line was off too. I just beat a new body line into it though. Seems like this is kind of a common issue with Gerson panels...
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chris roop
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Great results from a leap of faith!
I brought home a 71 today that will need a nosectomy, but it comes with the virgin donor replacement from another bus. If rust wasn't an issue, can you just linish the skin from the door openings and then cut horizontally wherever top and bottom??
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Joey
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| chris roop wrote: | Great results from a leap of faith!
I brought home a 71 today that will need a nosectomy, but it comes with the virgin donor replacement from another bus. If rust wasn't an issue, can you just linish the skin from the door openings and then cut horizontally wherever top and bottom?? |
Like this?
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=400853
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chris roop
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| Joey wrote: | | chris roop wrote: | Great results from a leap of faith!
I brought home a 71 today that will need a nosectomy, but it comes with the virgin donor replacement from another bus. If rust wasn't an issue, can you just linish the skin from the door openings and then cut horizontally wherever top and bottom?? |
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http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=400853 |
That was an excellent tutorial! Thank you! Once things settle down around here a little, I'll have to check that out some more. My welding skills might produce something looking akin to what the Reevers would fly, but hey.
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kuleinc
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themadcap
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I did the same thing, but for the life of me I can't get the darn headlights to mount correctly. Your front panel looks just like mine, did you have to do anything different? Please help.
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Nigelbug
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| Joey, I don't know why you bothered it's always going to be a bay window. Sell it and buy a split screen. |
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Chad aka Chud
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| Very interesting. I am getting ready to do the same, but I am going to go from the middle of the floor to above the wind shield... |
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Joey
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Take lots of pics!
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