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 Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2022 1:35 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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Ugh, 3 years since my last post. Stupid covid and being a "essential employee mailman".
Anyways, Caleb and I agreed it was time to let Weld go, he has a job in Mass and doesnt have the time or the room for it anymore, and I need a wrangler to keep focused.
I sold both buses to a Samba member who will work on them with his sons.
Caleb and I had alot fo good times wrenching on this, and hes said several times that what hed learned had come in handy.
So, both Caleb and i would like to thank everyone who has helped out over the years.
Im not leaving the aircooled world entirely,
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=771024&sid=90d09f92fa9bff8bf8b8d6481977854e
I did ask my doctor for a prescritpion for soem sort of ointment to cure shipwrights disease.
This one is more manageable
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| Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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yes, the wiring harness (i think we got it from aircooled.net?) was supergood. a few of the black wires with a stripe you do have to look at twice to make sure its the right one though, but overall im really pleased with it.
i did manage to get every terminal through that back grommet, ill post up some pix soon. Its really not THAT hard..maybe its just how i think that it seemed itd be harder.
BUT... well, Lebs tailights were shot, so i made the mistake of getting new ones.The "new" seals were so deformed it was impossible to put them in, so i should have just done "buy once, cry once" , but truth be told getting a used set that i need to refurb and wolfsburg west seals would have only been 25 more in the long run. With a lot less swearing and destruction (the plastic ones had literally half of the "chrome" shredded by manipulating it in the hole)
so i gotta refurb some I got from DannyZ
Plus theres a bit of bendiness in one of the holes, and i had it "good enuff" fixed with pliers (or so i thought-- that wasnt the side i wrecked the new light one, so it probably wouldnt have worked anyways) so i need to do the tack weld and slide hammer to straighten it up a bit
So thatll be the project for the next time he comes home, and maybe put the windshield wiper motor in.
Ive been thinking of doing it as a surprise b4 he gets home, but leaf fighting season has begun,
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the Blubaru has been treating me poorly, so ive had to devote my limited attention span to getting that running
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| Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:18 am Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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Woohoo! Glad to see y’all back at it, even if progress is slow.
Have you started hooking up wires yet? Does thebharness have all the correct terminals and colors?
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Yarkle
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| Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:03 am Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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and the actual OWNER of the bus working on it
last time he came home from school we got a little bit more done but my daily blubaru is being a real PITA so I havent gotten much volkswerkin done.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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Its actually one of the easiest things weve done! I thought it was going to take like days but it was only a few hours.
Caleb did get the old camper interior out on his days off (i think we literally had two days all summer we both had the same day off) , it was in pretty bad shape and on the early bays it really blocks your visibility, so he just kept the Z bed mechanicals and plans on making his own custome interior
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| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:48 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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Since itll be a bit before we start plugging things back in , i left frog tape on the terminal ends .
Im a little puzzled as to how to get all of the wires stuffed through the firewall grommet though
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| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:44 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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Once you get it out the hole in the frame, you then just pull it through the firewall.
Then you gotta unwrap all that frog tape, which i think actually took longer than pulling the harness.
We ended up unwrapping it, then stuffing the stuff for the starter back through the firewall. Once we got that roughly in place
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| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:40 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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One thing I forgot to mention, we left the new harness (i think we got it from aircooled.net) out in the sun for a half hour or so to make it kore pliable, amd Caleb kinda massaged it so it was relatively flat.
He then began to tug on the rear string as I fed it in the hole that goes through the frame
Youll have to kinda fiddle with it a bit to get it over the torsion tube
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| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:17 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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The previous pictures are in reverse order, sorry.. trying to do this on the ipad.
Once tou get here you are going to have to manually feed it in therough the hole as your helper tugs
Then hell gradually be able to bring it up past the dash as you feed it in
I then tied the string off on the steering wheel cuz you dont know how much slack youll have for the back end
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| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:16 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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Nice! Glad you still going at it
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| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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Then you wiggle underneath, and basically have your helper, GENTLY start to pull. I think its easiest to start with the front, so have him take out the slack on the string as you feed the front part in through that center hole
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| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:05 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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Im not going to name any names, but someone (Caleb) likes to pull a little hard, so i made sure to tie off the one piece of string on each end that wasnt in use
Once i had strings going from both ends (heres the front)
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| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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Good to see you still plugging away, my friend! I had to do harness on my old baja, would not want to even think about doing it on a bus!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 4:58 pm Post subject: Re: 69 bay bus "Weld Busler" |
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Ok, long time with no update, but Caleb was gone all last summer fighting zebra mussels and then managed to hurt himself, so we didnt get a lot of work do e, and hes headed back to school next week. BUT.. we did manage to get that gawdawful hacked wiring harness out and put the new one in. There are alot of threads that talk about it, but I was pretty perplexed as to how to get it back in.
I think the removal pictures are on calebs ipod, if i can find them ill post them, but the trick was to use 550 cord (or parachute\survival cord) “gut”. I hooked two strands of it to the front of the old wiring harness, then two strands of it to the back, using duct tape.
You lift up all the tab things that keep it into place. I actually videod myself taking it out so I wouldnt forget
I then pulled it out from the middle, leaving two pieces of gut hanging from the dash to the middle and two pieces hanging from the engine bay to the middle of the frame, figuring if one piece broke, I could always use the second piece
Somehow the rear string got messed up, so I used an electricians flexible rod to just run two lengths from the back.. its a short run
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