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vdubsforlife
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 Posted: Thu May 15, 2025 10:44 am Post subject: Re: Septic tank single cab |
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Used the industrial parts washer at work to wash off the 60 plus years of oil and gunk. Came out pretty clean. Definitely looks like someone's been into it at some point. The safety wired ring gear bolts were all loose and the wire job they did looks hokey, they reused the fold over locks too. Preload nut was loose
Nosecone bushing is basically paper thin
Little wear on the reverse gear, kinda expected with the age and whatnot
Saw a rotisserie pop up on marketplace messaged about it and it sold. Took to long to decide if I really needed it. Then another one came up and I managed to get it atleast. Some of the homemade ones I've seen look great. But as you can see, the bus isn't in a shop with a concrete floor and all the room to rotate side to side, so I think it well be a great asset to have. No one likes overhead welding especially outside on the ground haha
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j.pickens
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2025 7:31 pm Post subject: Re: Septic tank single cab |
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I know Crukab Tom used his rotisserie to rotate his SC 90 degrees so he could stand up and weld the floor. Beats crawling into the treasure chest any day.
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vdubsforlife
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2025 9:06 pm Post subject: Re: Septic tank single cab |
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Sometimes it pays to be a hoarder haha, found that random scrap metal couple years ago. Figured I'd use it for something didn't think it'd be for mounting a bus to a rotisserie
Front beam bolts came out way easier than I expected. Especially considering how rusty this old gal is
More new parts showing up
Got it mocked up welded abit before it started raining hard
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1961 baja 6 rib/1800cc van motor
1964 baja 1500 s/p (rebuilding)
1974 bug so rotten the doors don't close (good shed)
1983 toyota 4x4/33 in mt baja claws
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vdubsforlife
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Location: Vernon b.c. Canada
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2025 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: Septic tank single cab |
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| I know Crukab Tom used his rotisserie to rotate his SC 90 degrees so he could stand up and weld the floor. Beats crawling into the treasure chest any day. |
Yeah I crawled in there to cut out the old floor and didn't love it. I'm sure welding would be much less enjoyable haha
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1964 baja 1500 s/p (rebuilding)
1974 bug so rotten the doors don't close (good shed)
1983 toyota 4x4/33 in mt baja claws
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vdubsforlife
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2025 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Septic tank single cab |
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Made some progress with it, came across some old school fog lights that should suit it pretty well. Plus an old 1/2 drive hazet ratchet to add to the collection of hazet tools.
Had to gusset and renforce my rear mount to the frame horns abit more but seems to work fine now and not be benting like it was previously.
Definitely a little sketchy at first but it's surprisingly quite stable especially considering its just on dirt outside haha. Should make cutting and welding in new metal much more enjoyable and better than overhead for all of it
We have liftoff
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1961 baja 6 rib/1800cc van motor
1964 baja 1500 s/p (rebuilding)
1974 bug so rotten the doors don't close (good shed)
1983 toyota 4x4/33 in mt baja claws
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vdubsforlife
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2025 5:58 pm Post subject: Re: Septic tank single cab |
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New floor for the treasure chest showed up. Technically for a bus so I'll need to do slight modifications but it will be much better than what I started off with. Pretty hard to beat the free shipping from cip1 and not like there's a ton of options to buy directly in Canada either
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1961 baja 6 rib/1800cc van motor
1964 baja 1500 s/p (rebuilding)
1974 bug so rotten the doors don't close (good shed)
1983 toyota 4x4/33 in mt baja claws
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