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Mon Apr 07, 2025 10:12 pm

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Tue Apr 08, 2025 6:20 pm

i wonder if i have seen the bus this door came from.

Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:59 pm

mandraks wrote: i wonder if i have seen the bus this door came from.

Possible!

Next part of the pillar:

-Christian

Thu Apr 17, 2025 2:13 pm

Booked a ticket for this one for the famous Grundmann Meeting in Hessisch Oldendorf next year -HO26

A long way and not mich time, wish me luck!

More work on that pillar:

Sadly the weld have another color, can you see it?:

Anyone alse see that the Barndoor lower hinge is higher then the later lower hinge and the Klassic fab Barndoor pillar is like later low hinge pillar?

Thu Apr 17, 2025 2:54 pm

Huetti_1989 wrote:
Sadly the weld have another color, can you see it?:

Sure, but your welding is still outstanding.

Sat Apr 19, 2025 1:46 am

depending on filler rod, and gas, your weld will always have a different texture than the base material. I have also witnessed that the welds may draw metal chips like a magnet, I guess that would be from friction while grinding it down.
Fantastic work.
You were right on time for Hessisch, their site already says that registration is closed.

Sun Apr 20, 2025 11:20 pm

Thank you guys!

More work on the Pillar and the inner parts of the short sidewall:

-Christian

Mon Apr 21, 2025 1:22 pm

Do you treat the surface rust and add rust protection before welding in the panel strengtheners?

Mon Apr 21, 2025 2:06 pm

ddutch wrote: Do you treat the surface rust and add rust protection before welding in the panel strengtheners?

No, like original no paint inside, I brushed out all the surface rust, later i fill that areas with rust protection oil and grease i think.

It should stay a car with traces, no Restauration here if you know what i mean?

-Christian

Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:05 pm

Huetti_1989 wrote: ddutch wrote: Do you treat the surface rust and add rust protection before welding in the panel strengtheners?

No, like original no paint inside, I brushed out all the surface rust, later i fill that areas with rust protection oil and grease i think.

It should stay a car with traces, no Restauration here if you know what i mean?

Sure, a bus that shows the life it had. Thanks

Fri May 23, 2025 7:03 am

Hello Christian, any up dates? Love this build.

Sat May 24, 2025 4:38 pm

Me Too! I've been watching this closely. Can't wait to see every step!

Sun May 25, 2025 3:59 am

Sorry guys for the delay, some busy times here. Much work to get the running cats ouf of winter storage. Two big meetings and a quick engine rebuild and paint job on a vanagon from a female friend with benefits (the benefits mean that i repair her the bus car for free) :wink:

Slowly coming back to the barndoor:

Some work on the recreation of the inner cargo door frames:

Some nasty job the done on the nos doors:

Sun May 25, 2025 9:27 am

[quote="Huetti_1989"] ddutch wrote: Do you treat the surface rust and add rust protection before welding in the panel strengtheners?

No, like original no paint inside, I brushed out all the surface rust, later i fill that areas with rust protection oil and grease i think.

It should stay a car with traces, no Restauration here if you know what i mean?

-Christian

I though phosphoric acid dipping was standard on early bugs from very early. I've seen factory photos of type 1's where they are completely submerged in acid, and the workers in complete rubber suits.
Surely the type 2's as well?
I've used phosphoric acid Metal Prep by DuPont and others since I started metal work. It now seems hard to find in US body supply chains, but one can get concentrated pretty easily. and dilute it.
Is this not normal metal prepping in Europe?
Some may call it pickeling.

Mon May 26, 2025 1:39 pm

I can only speek from my knowledge, bugs where dipping yes, but in Wolfburg build splitwindow not i think that because i seen no traces of that. On my 57 hannover build split i seen the traces of the dipping.

Some more work done on the inner door frames today, a lot of hours gone in that part.

-Christian

Tricky thick metal folding:

Test spotwelds on that parts:

Mon May 26, 2025 7:01 pm

Wonderful reproduction of inner-frame parts. Good to see you working on the Barndoor again, I missed it.

Wed May 28, 2025 10:59 am

ddutch wrote: Wonderful reproduction of inner-frame parts. Good to see you working on the Barndoor again, I missed it.

Thanks, i am happy too, but i still have anything like 6 cars in the barn that needs a checkup this spring..

I look closer at the doors of my 52, the look like dipped in paint! So they maybe put only the "small" parts in the dipping? I don't know.

More work on the door, done some spot welding where it's possible.

-Christian

Thu May 29, 2025 2:21 pm

Spent nearly the whole day to weld the inner reinforcements into the door with good alignment.
I am not happy with the gaps for now, but i coming closer when i think how that side looks before.

Also start the work on the second cargo door.

-Christian

Mon Jun 09, 2025 2:22 pm

start to build a new frame for the next door

-Christian

Wed Jul 16, 2025 12:26 pm

Still no movement here, enjoying the summer while bring the early Bay westy back on the road and deive that old stuff all day long!

Sidequest finished, the gearbox i put out of that car gets some love.

All that parts looked very good so far, unfortunately it looks like a later? Austausch case? Can anyone confirm the date of this?

Would love to drive that with the later bignut outer gears to get the same ratio as 67. Is that possible in the barndoor cases?

-Christian