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volksfahrer.nl
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hope I don't sound like an ass but masking those things on your dash probably cost the same amount of time as taking them of.
Serious! The switches are of in a second!
Same for the grab and the speedo

Bad ass job for getting this bus on the road!


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent work, mate. Very Happy
If I had half the initiative my '62 would be rolling.
Better go do those rear brakes........ Embarassed
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks guys! And as for the taping off, I just got lazy and left everything on...The gas gauge screws were stuck and the speedometer screws didn't budge either, so I gave up and got the tape out... Laughing

When I paint the dash white later on I'm gonna pull everything off and do it right...
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Daniel you're awesome, cant believe you didnt use car tags on your front floor!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was tempted but I decided against it...There just wasn't enough floor left to attach the car tags to... Laughing

When are we going to start on yours? You know I'll be there to help!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

To much other stuff to do 1st.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is a small update....

Tie rods I bought from Campingbox:

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Frame patch trimmed some more:

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And welded in:

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And the passenger's side of the frame:

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I was kind of ashamed to post these pictures since the welds look so terrible. I couldn't see what the hell I was doing due to space constraints...And the metal was so thin on the driver's side it kept blowing through. But once I grind them down it should look much better...

Well that's all for now.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have still been slowly working on the bus if anyone has been wondering. I work in retail so you can imagine how busy it is this time of year...

Here's what I got done so far:

Cross-members welded in and part of the frame painted with Masterseries.

Pulled the wiring harness back through the frame and labeled all the wires.

Re-installed the gas tank.

Pulled the spring plates off and painted them and the covers.

Removed and cleaned the transaxle up.

Hopefully on my next off day I can have the spring plates reset and some pics of my progress uploaded...
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lookin' good. You'll have her back on the road in no time.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 6:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good work man. Slow and steady wins the race! Smile
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 1:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well things did not go as planned today so unfortunately I didn't get much done on the bus...But I do have some pictures of the past work I have done to it...

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My rear shift rod is bent too, so I am going to have to cut the bent part out and splice a new piece in. Whoever pulled the beam out in the junkyard bent it so much it wouldn't come out of the tube without me cutting it first.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not much of an update but I finally got the spring plates back on...

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And I spent the rest of the night scraping off undercoating. Fun times!

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I haven't given up on the bus, if anyone was wondering. I have still been working on it, just not updating the thread regularly. If everything goes to plan I will be driving to Charlotte Transporter show next month. I will update the thread here in a day or two...
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

good work!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

KombiMarc wrote:
good work!

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

great save, please keep those pictures coming those are great!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Daniel G wrote:
I haven't given up on the bus, if anyone was wondering. I have still been working on it, just not updating the thread regularly. If everything goes to plan I will be driving to Charlotte Transporter show next month. I will update the thread here in a day or two...


Looking forward to the update.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RPGreg2600 wrote:
Daniel G wrote:
I haven't given up on the bus, if anyone was wondering. I have still been working on it, just not updating the thread regularly. If everything goes to plan I will be driving to Charlotte Transporter show next month. I will update the thread here in a day or two...


Looking forward to the update.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As fun as it is to have someone riding in the Bus with me on the Charlotte trip, I really hope that instead I'll be sharing the road with your Bus this year.
Get on it!
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is what took me so long to fix...

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That is a broken front beam bolt..With an EZ-out broken off in said bolt. Ruh-Roh.

Here is my solution to that problem...

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My dad whittled these out on the lathe for me...I ended up cutting the frame open on the other side too because the insert was almost rusted completely through. I have pics of that to post later...

I also had to replace the shifter base because my repairs didn't work...Pics of that to follow...I also replaced the transaxle as the one I had put in before had bad reduction box bearings. Plus it came out of a bus that was parked for years, so I had no idea if it was good or not.

Here is how the bus looks now...

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