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Don66bus
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scottvw
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Location: Centennial, CO
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Put these in the tail lights on my bus and love them. They function perfectly and are much, much brighter than "normal" bulbs. I'll be way more comfortable driving with the knowledge that my brake and turn signal lights are on par with modern vehicles. (If I still get hit it's because nothing is idiot proof to a sufficiently talented idiot.)
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Are those bulbs direct replacements or do you have to wire something up custom or separate from the original wiring? |
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rennie
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Location: Orange County, CA
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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Gave the ol' girl front disc brakes. I don't mind drums but the downhill stops love the DB's - a world of difference.
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Red Fau Veh
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Location: Prescott Az.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:50 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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I took my starter out and then used a tap with a T handle and screwed it into the brass bushing until it started turning inside the bore, then I just pulled and it came out! I never did that before, pretty easy to do and the hole was egged out so it needed a new one. Now I need a new one of these 6 volt transmission to 12 volt starter bushings though, I have the wrong one to replace it. And I don't know how to press in a new one. What works best?
I also put on these new to me og paint light grey hub caps! I was running around with dove grey ones until I finally got a complete set of these in good shape. I have 2 more I collected but they are ratty so these 4 are the ones!
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1971 Deluxe Sunroof Bay 1905 stroker, dual idf40's, 74mm Scat forged crank, engle 110 cam. CB 044 heads, AutoCraft rockers, chromoly push rods
1973 Orange transporter stock type 4 with dual 40 Dellortos and Empi single quiet pack
1969 Adventurewagen blue whale Gene Berg 1776 built by Dave Kawell dual 36 DRLA's, Vintage Speed exhaust, Bosch 019 screamer
1961 Swivel Seat camper, L345 grey
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EeVeeWee
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Location: Amersfoort, Netherlands
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| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:12 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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I cut a piece from the roof. 
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Daddybus
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 10:42 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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| Red Fau Veh wrote: |
| I took my starter out and then used a tap with a T handle and screwed it into the brass bushing until it started turning inside the bore, then I just pulled and it came out! I never did that before, pretty easy to do and the hole was egged out so it needed a new one. Now I need a new one of these 6 volt transmission to 12 volt starter bushings though, I have the wrong one to replace it. And I don't know how to press in a new one. What works best? |
What works best is a self-supporting starter from an automatic transmission Air-cooled VW. It doesn't use a bushing. If you buy it from the large nation-wide auto parts chains like O'Reilly's or Autozone, it may come with a lifetime warrantee. |
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Red Fau Veh
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Location: Prescott Az.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:16 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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Well I called Bob at Arizona Transaxle Exchange and he sent me a new proper bushing. He used a caliper and said to only ever buy the bushings that are .650 in outside diameter. It fit perfectly and only needed a small amount of tapping to get it flush with the case. He told me that if I use a good high temp grease on it and the starter end, it will last for many years and no need to buy a auto starter.  I do have an auto starter here so maybe I will carry it with me as a spare just in case.
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1971 Deluxe Sunroof Bay 1905 stroker, dual idf40's, 74mm Scat forged crank, engle 110 cam. CB 044 heads, AutoCraft rockers, chromoly push rods
1973 Orange transporter stock type 4 with dual 40 Dellortos and Empi single quiet pack
1969 Adventurewagen blue whale Gene Berg 1776 built by Dave Kawell dual 36 DRLA's, Vintage Speed exhaust, Bosch 019 screamer
1961 Swivel Seat camper, L345 grey
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cdennisg
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Location: Sandpoint, ID
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:54 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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| Red Fau Veh wrote: |
| Well I called Bob at Arizona Transaxle Exchange and he sent me a new proper bushing. He used a caliper and said to only ever buy the bushings that are .650 in outside diameter. It fit perfectly and only needed a small amount of tapping to get it flush with the case. He told me that if I use a good high temp grease on it and the starter end, it will last for many years and no need to buy a auto starter. I do have an auto starter here so maybe I will carry it with me as a spare just in case. |
^^ All of that is good advice. As long as the new bushing fits snug in the tranny case, you should be fine. But once that thing gets egged out (as often happens when the bushing wears but does not get replaced immediately), the auto starter is your best bet.
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crofty
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Location: Land of Whine and Phonies
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 8:17 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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Replaced the drag link and steering damper yesterday in the '62. Like having a new car!
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veskovici
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Location: Belgrade
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 3:53 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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This one was parked in a junk yard and me and my friends were cutting parts of it as we needed to do so.
I have cut front part of chassis few years ago.
Fortunately front part remained beside the bus.
Recently i bought remains of the bus and collected all parts that has been cut of from my friends .
Now it is reparation time.
Few pictures.
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BulliBill
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Location: St Charles, MO
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:26 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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Way to go! Put that cool logoed Panel back together, and post lots of pictures in it's own build thread so others can learn from your progress! Good on you!
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Mission VW - San Fernando
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crofty
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Location: Land of Whine and Phonies
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 10:16 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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Started assembling the 1776cc for the Flipseat
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cdennisg
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Location: Sandpoint, ID
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 6:57 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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^^^ Living room a table? I like your style. I have a 1776 awaiting assembly, too.
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Daddybus
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:13 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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| Took out 2 degrees of preload to get the BFGs to sit flat in the rear of the daddybus. |
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motofly196
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 10:04 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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This one was parked in a junk yard and me and my friends were cutting parts of it as we needed to do so.
I have cut front part of chassis few years ago.
Fortunately front part remained beside the bus.
Recently i bought remains of the bus and collected all parts that has been cut of from my friends .
Now it is reparation time.
Few pictures.
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I really hope you guys are going to be welding some inner structure (sleeve) on the inside of the frame rail besides the gusset? Even though this cut is forward of the suspension, your ass is sitting directly above that area, not to mention all of the weight of the nose and floor. Probably a lot of flex going on there. |
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crofty
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 9:30 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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| ^^^ Living room a table? I like your style. I have a 1776 awaiting assembly, too. |
Coffee table- bachelor style!
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Stocknazi
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 4:09 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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This one was parked in a junk yard and me and my friends were cutting parts of it as we needed to do so.
I have cut front part of chassis few years ago.
Fortunately front part remained beside the bus.
Recently i bought remains of the bus and collected all parts that has been cut of from my friends .
Now it is reparation time.
Few pictures.
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Cool, a Durkopp bearing bus. What was once junk. . . . Great to see buses like this fixed and saved.
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RHD Notch
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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| ^^^ Living room a table? I like your style. I have a 1776 awaiting assembly, too. |
Coffee table- bachelor style! |
This exchange made me laugh and reminded me of selling a WW2 bomber oxygen tank at OCTO last weekend...as the buyer was walking away with it, my wife said "I'm glad that thing will finally be out of the living room".
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| I am at the point where I hardly want to own anything that isn't original paint. |
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| I have some other projects I'd like to finish first and I want to drive this bus while I'm working on those to help stay motivated. |
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veskovici
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:32 am Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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| veskovici wrote: |
This one was parked in a junk yard and me and my friends were cutting parts of it as we needed to do so.
I have cut front part of chassis few years ago.
Fortunately front part remained beside the bus.
Recently i bought remains of the bus and collected all parts that has been cut of from my friends .
Now it is reparation time.
Few pictures.
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I really hope you guys are going to be welding some inner structure (sleeve) on the inside of the frame rail besides the gusset? Even though this cut is forward of the suspension, your ass is sitting directly above that area, not to mention all of the weight of the nose and floor. Probably a lot of flex going on there. |
Main rail frame was welded both sides out and in and reinforcement piece is welded to. But, as you mentioned yes my ass is sitting above and this is forward of the suspension but it is not just hanging in the air , it is also connected to the roof and dog legs and a and b pillars and that way to whole bus. The way i see it, all welds are for them self but also connected together in one whole structure where all forces are interacting and supporting each other.
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mastorna
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2016 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do for your Bus today? |
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Cracked some stationary glass when trying to install new rubber. Went absolutely ballistic when it cracked. Now gotta hunt down another sigla drivers side replacement.
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