I'm the PO - Re-Restoring a Restoration

[Loren]

Any updates?

[Clatter]

[airschooled]

Paging abscate, we need to discuss left vs. right side air molecules again.

Looking good brother. That O2 bung adapter would sell for big bucks if you need a side hustle.

Race ya up the 17 in August?
Robbie
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[Clatter]

[Xevin]

[orwell84]

Getting the slider back on is a bit of a milestone especially if you have taken off all the bits to paint. The happy Gestalt of all those sproinky springs and catches can be difficult to recreate. Perhaps the sound I most associate with Baywindow buses is the sound of the sliding door skidding (not rolling) down the track as someone heaves it closed.

Tidy engine. I paint my tin a light gray so I can see the stuff I drop better. I buffed my fan shroud out to a mirror finish. It looked fantastic for a couple of weeks.

Excellent work as usual.

[Clatter]

Warms my heart to be back here again gentlemen.

Been a flog..!

Hard to put back together a whole bus that was taken apart years ago!
Even worse when some dumbass PO (me) who didn't keep track of every washer/screw and mixed things all up and...

Takes forever to look up in the manual and figure out what goes where.

Ack!

Messes messes everywhere!

Helps to have completely taken apart a bus for parts.
Fasteners that have been misplaced can be sourced and used again somewhere else.

Break it down into small bites.
Eating the elephant.
A father and son can bicker and cuss like no other,
Especially struggling against a swoolen old seal!

And, yeah, a sussed-out well-lubricated/adjusted slider with good parts is a joy to behold.
The scrapey/crunchy takes-multiple-tries sorryass sliders most of us live with cause an inner anger to those in the know.

Some things, we take clear apart, soda-blast and paint.

Here's how to know if a latch is going to cause anger and frustration.
Hard to tell from the pic, but years of loose maladjusted slamming have thrown up a huge burr and worn a groove in the latch pawl.
On left:

We also had the cable connecting the mechs broken at the threaded adjuster section.
Didn't get a pic...


Everything cleaned and re-greased.
"New" wear parts like the fiber block.
(That same fiber block i got new from the dealer in 1994 BTW )
We're getting there. Sliding door nirvana.

Elephant... Bite bite.

Nobody restores a camper.
It's simply too much work.
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Bus Motor Build

I have excellent news for the world...
There is no such thing as patina.
It does not exist!

[SGKent]

hang in there. A journey of a 1000 miles is one step at a time.
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[Clatter]

Another day,
A half day but with a helper..

Finished getting all the best of my door stuff cleaned, lubed and properly fastened down.

Owen got out the vinyl dye and did the plastic trim pieces all
Prettypretty.
Drilled/tapped the bracket for a machine screw and even painted it to hide.

Retentivity obviously runs in families…



Got the door hung and the window in but didn’t get a pic.
Plenty more adjustments to be made before we reach slider nirvana.
And, really, that track isn’t the best.
Trying to talk myself into NOT welding on another at this point.
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Bus Motor Build

I have excellent news for the world...
There is no such thing as patina.
It does not exist!

[Clatter]

Couple more days.
Sliding door tweaks and door assembly nonsense.

WW repop scrapers are -sweet-!
SO nice to be happy with aftermarket parts for a change!

Vent wings are their own adventure.
HD rivet smasher made it kinda fun, even.

Prepping channels for new felt tracks.

Scraping old gasket glue.
Adhesive remover is the key ingredient.

Here's big brother pushing his dad to hurry up.

Got in a big enough hurry to ruin a new scraper.

No matter.
With the right hair,
You can do anything.

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Bus Motor Build

I have excellent news for the world...
There is no such thing as patina.
It does not exist!

[WildIdea]

Way to go! Looks like you’re well on your way back out of this project Clatter. Always pushing yourself going the distance on details and never looking to cut corners or effort.

Easy to have to pause for the weather conditions or something and get distracted on a side quest, God forbid, fixing things around the house or yard work….. I’m back to a soft reboot on one of my projects doing tiny tasks here and there, I’m starting to get excited seeing some results and it’s becoming the priority again. I appreciate your documentation and showing realistically how much goes into each step to get a desirable result.
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1977 Sage Green Westy
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=691987
1965 SWR Walk-Through Standard
1960 211 Panel American Camper Conversion

[Xevin]

^^^

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Keep on Busin'

[twinfin]

Man I Love that Song!
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"It's knowledge to learn from your mistakes. But it's wisdom to learn from others!"
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"The Blue Submarine"
1977 Campmobile, Type 4 2.0 liter Federal, Non-Catalyst, Fuel Injected with Valvetrain from the type4store, 411 Heat Exchanger Preheaters, S&S Header, Supertrapp Silencer. ...and a lot of help from Clatter and TCash and friends!

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