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MN Mike Balvin
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Here is a shot of where the roof sits for now, I have a lot of work to do before it doesn't leak in the rain. Cargo floors, crossmembers, and rockers to come hopefully later this summer after I get the Syncro mobile. |
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MN Mike Balvin
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| Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:08 am Post subject: Re: 1966 camper project |
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Only rattle can paint over seam sealer for now.
Tucked away next to my Syncro distraction, ready for MSRA back to the 50s next weekend |
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MN Mike Balvin
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| Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:06 am Post subject: Re: 1966 camper project |
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MN Mike Balvin
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MN Mike Balvin
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| Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:05 am Post subject: Re: 1966 camper project |
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MN Mike Balvin
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| Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:05 am Post subject: Re: 1966 camper project |
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Started working on it again this spring
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LAGrunthaner 
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2018 1:51 am Post subject: Re: 1966 camper project |
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That is great to hear. Please continue this thread with all your updates as it motivates others to work harder on their buses.
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MN Mike Balvin
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:07 am Post subject: Re: 1966 camper project |
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This poor thing has been pushed aside for a few years and has finally received new brake lines, master and wheel cylinders, shoes, cables, new gas tank, and etc. The engine stops at some point when hand turning so I am assuming valves are stuck. I dropped my 2387 in it to take it to MSRA Back to the 50s weekend and it was a hit! So many people couldn't believe it is driveable. And the typical people shouting rev it up while cruising thru the fairgrounds were obliged.
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MN Mike Balvin
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Welded in. |
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MN Mike Balvin
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Welded in. |
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MN Mike Balvin
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Pipe welded in |
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MN Mike Balvin
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I have some torsion ends I got off the Samba already, thanks for the offer though. I will sleeve the inside of the torsion tube and seam and plug weld the new ends back on. Here's the Double that I cut this bus up to fix
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williamM
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You read that off the tape didn't you 
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See what happens when you grow up with inches" I meant 5.51 inches.
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williamM
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See what happens when you grow up with inches" I meant 14 feet.
Size does matter.
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BulliBill
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:08 pm Post subject: Re: 1966 camper project |
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I have a really rough camper that was used as a parts bus for my x-double cab. Im going to repair the torsion housing and need some measurements, hoping someone could help me out. What is the measurement from the face of the frame to the outermost face of the torsion housing where the cap bolts on? And degrees from 0 of the casting to the frame.
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I don't think he meant 14 "mm" but rather 14"cm" ???
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vw7266
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| im parting a bus with your missing pieces...torsions etc. pm me if your interested Ill make you a good deal on it though it would have to be shipped from ohio. |
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otis_bartleh
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sick... 
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kirbyland
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| Crap- I just threw away a housing- and I'm an hour away. I HAD to move quickly, and couldn't keep everything- |
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MN Mike Balvin
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Thanks for the measurement. That will get me started, I can pick the angle up from a picture I have. The bus has been in those woods for twenty years, it was parked for a long while before then too. My friend who is the one with the chainsaw in the pic, bought it when he was a teenager. He drove it around the yard till it locked up and they parked it. We always figured since it wasn't a westy not worth it, or any number of excuses. I seen him at Back to the 50s car show here in St. Paul last year when I had been out of vw's for a long time, he told me I had to get another one. I didn't think he meant this one. I was driving this at the time.
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