79 sage green/mexico beige kombi

[1967250s]

Maybe just new cv boots, cv's are tough, don't replace unless they "clunk". definite cleaning needed, though.

[consvws]

[consvws]

Cleaned up the under side of the engine today. I scraped the heater boxes & tin down with a razor blade then rubbed them down with some lacquer thinner & painted them.

Then i drove the bus up the ramps to run the gas all down to one side while i replaced the rest of the fuel lines.

Looks pretty good under the pedal cluster pan too!

And, one last pic before the the day is over.

[consvws]

pulled the belly pan off today. Here are a few pics of the gas heater setup.

and here is the pan after i hosed it off

[1967250s]

Looks like you have your work cut out for you. Still, looks pretty damn good.

[consvws]

Replaced this oil soaked OPS, and was hoping that it was what was leaking, but i think oil cooler seals are next.

Then I put together my new CV boots. Ended up using my old CV's cause they were lookin' good & haven't been making noise.

[Outlaw70]

That thing is looking good man! ill have to drive up and check it out..
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85 Vanagon

[consvws]

[consvws]

Tore the engine down a bit so i could replace the oil cooler seals & weld up the exhaust pipes (hacked out the CAT). I ended up putting it all back together minus the AC for now, but she sounds much better & doesn't leak oil anymore

and while i was at it, replaced the old petrified dipstick boot with a new one

[consvws]

belly pans all sandblasted & painted

[Zhaph]

Just checked out this thread for the first time today; awesome bus and great pictures! Looks like your restoration is going really well; your attention to detail while cleaning and painting is admirable. Keep on keeping on, and nice work!
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1974 Westy - REBUS
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[notchboy]

^^DAYUM Sexy Work ^^

Nothing like taking the old OG and making it new....Progress on the BA6?
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[eche_bus]

Wow This is really coming along nicely! Great work! What did you use for paint on those pans?

[consvws]

Yeah, the bus is coming right along. My friend gets all the credit for the pans, he paints for a living & i'm known to leave runs in my paint I think he used epoxy primer & clear. They do look pretty sweet though huh!

As for the BA6 i haven't done much. I pulled off the exhaust pipe from it & a buncha rust came out. Also found a tear in the rubber boot thingy right where the wires are sticking out of it. You can see in the right side of this pic

I think i'm going to just pop the whole thing out of there and try to make it run on the bench.

[consvws]

Decided to replace all these crispy old vacuum lines & in the process found a big leak in the tube going to the aux. air valve. The tube was like what i use on my fish pond pump & was barely zip tied on there.

[consvws]

Pulled the gas heater, and i'm going to see if i can fire it up this week.

cool old eberspacher fuel pump

here is the ignition coil

and here is where fuel meets up with spark & makes fire hopefully

I also gutted the bus back out to clean it up some more

sanded down the cb steps a little & painted them with some Rustoleum green paint i had laying around

Then i hammered out a the little dent in the side from under the back seat & tatted it up with some of that paint too. Not a perfect match but it'll work until i get some paint mixed up if i ever fix the nose up all nice.

[consvws]

Got the gas heater laying here. The fuel pump spits gas, i've got a bunch of wires & i was hoping to make a quick wiring harness so i can make it run. Do i need to remove the switch from the dash & all the wiring loom to hook this up proper, or does anyone have a simpler way to bench test them? I found some black & white wiring diagrams that are pretty hard to figure out.

[consvws]

front pedal cluster pan back on, some more cleaning the under chassis, and the scrubbed the floors down

[1979westie]

I love you guys out in Oregon....you just happen across an old bus that looks like it has been in a ditch for 20 years, pull it out and with some elbow grease find the original paint under the wheel arches to be far better than my bus has ever looked. You have no idea (or maybe you do) what it is like to live on the east coast where rust eats these things alive.

Will someone please keep an eye out for me for a 78-79 deluxe westy out there? It can be ratty, no engine, no trans, no interior...just a clean, rust free body and beam. I'll toss in a finders fee too.

Great bus and good luck!
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Your car may do 0-60 in under 5 seconds, but can it sleep 4 and cook a meal?

1979 Deluxe Campmobile (quickly rusting away)
33K miles when bought, now at 61K
Proud Member #2 SBS (Stock Bus Society)

[ejon]

Did you forget where oregon is ? like west coast.

That big ol ocean out here is not fresh water. What we don't have is salted hyways. it freeze's or snows we're just SOL. The plus here is the rusted cars of any brand, come off the coast. There's a large mountain range within a mile of the ocean, which blocks the salt air.

so 10 miles inland and your out of the cancer zone.. but the rain .. these buses here just like you, when they sit the windshield, floors rain gutters so on get rusted out just like any where else