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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two coats of POR 15. One more to go...

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Cool
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

First coat of green paint (Tremclad) on:

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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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PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Windshield is installed!

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Gap between the metal and the rubber here...

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...and here, probably because of my weld repair.

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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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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:33 pm    Post subject: Front Nose Replacment & windshield frame rust repair Reply with quote

The seam is very hard to detect. It's in the middle on top. It fit very well in my hacked & slashed window opening... Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm trying to find a new nose panel, are only used ones available for the low light buses?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joey wrote:

If I were to do it again I'd do it how this person did it:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5290725&highlight=#5290725

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Next I got to weld up the few small holes on the top frame and slap some POR 15 on it.


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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PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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??


Like this?

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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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mmmm Reevers.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon May 13, 2013 5:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon May 13, 2013 7:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take lots of pics!
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