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Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:39 am

those wheel wells look nice Nize, and your method of breaking the flange then shrinking it works well.

The other way to do it, which takes more time in buck making but can yeild a better result...is to make your bucks with the curvature of the rocker already in place, that way when you hammer the flange over, the metal will stretch and shrink to form exactly the shape you need.

I made a hammerform from MDF to make battery trays. I use a bead roller to make the depression for the battery. The short rocker was made just with a shrinker.

Keep up the good work nize, looking forward to updates!

Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:33 pm

Freaking awesome.

I made the same area for my DC. I did it in pretty much the same way. I used a shrinker to roll the rocker area.

Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:49 pm

Oh yes boys, that's the way to do it! :!: :D All of your work is looking great. And Nize's bus shows how you can save the most out of an old VW.
every square inch saved it's worth it in my opinion. patching is good. :D

Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:21 am

Last couple of days has been spent welding in the panels I made. The result is actually better than I thought it would be. It will be really nice to sort this repair out. It has been bugging me for a while.

Also tried to start a new tradition today. Always clean up the mess in the garage after cutting and grinding. :-)

Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:30 am

nize wrote: Has anyone got a god picture of how the pressing for the heater tubes looks in the part I am making? I have nothing left to look at :-)
Heater tube only cuts into the very lower edge
Appears seam welded all way round the tube
Same positioning if running a heater log or not

Click for larger images.

BD (cuts in below where ribs are close together):

Ribbing differs on non-BD:

Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:02 am

RockStock wrote: nize wrote: Has anyone got a god picture of how the pressing for the heater tubes looks in the part I am making? I have nothing left to look at :-)
Heater tube only cuts into the very lower edge
Appears seam welded all way round the tube
Same positioning if running a heater log or not

Click for larger images.

BD (cuts in below where ribs are close together):

Ribbing differs on non-BD:

Thanks alot! Then it is nothing major. I can fix those cuts later on. Thats good!

Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:43 am

:shock:

Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:23 pm

Hi max2919 I see that you are from Sweden just like me. Where do you live? Would be cool to see your 54!

Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:02 pm

Uppsala :wink:

Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:18 pm

max2919 wrote: Uppsala :wink:

What... I live in Enköping. I will PM you!

Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:09 pm

Cool project, keep the pictures flowing.

Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:03 pm

Spot on Nize, Love the repair panels!. More pics please 8)

Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:38 am

52panelvan wrote: Spot on Nize, Love the repair panels!. More pics please 8)

Thanks Mark and runewo

Lately I´ve been working on boring stuff such as adjusting and finetuning right rear corner and side panel. More pictures will come as soon as I do anythng worth a picture.

Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:16 am

Finally done...

The question now is what part of the bus to start with next?

Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:45 am

Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:51 am

gread work, and great skills you have... :shock: :D

Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:27 am

Today I started the build of the chassie.
I was supposed to have a jig in place for this but the guy supposed to build it did not have the time so I started with some spotwelds mocking it up in hopefully a good way. I use the drawing by 52Panelvan for this...

Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:54 am

Ok... so now I stand before the most complicated thing during the whole restoration process (at least so I think). I need to get the rear axle in place where it should be.

Today I realized that my workbench is perfect for the matter. This will probably keep my awake for some while during the coming nights.

Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:37 pm

Today I continued with turning my workbench into a chassis jig. I took a million measures and made up a support for the rear torsion beam. This is to adress that it sist 30mm higher than the frame rails.

After that I did some measures and centered the rear tosion tube in the supports and welded it shut in the supports where it should be (I hope).

Tomorrow I will try to get all the chassis together. Got to get some more material though. I cant wait untill the rear is attached to the middle section. Then all the fun begins.

Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:46 pm

holy moly, they don't sell those benches at IKEA, do they ?? :wink: :D