What did you do for your Bus today?

[LAGrunthaner]

iubhounds, I love how she is coming along, cool that you have the last year 1960 for the semaphores. Totally agree on the aluminum tape it's amazing. Can I assume the PO installed the bullet blinkers?

[iubhounds]

Thank LAGrunthaner ... more plans still on the list. I can only assume the PO or previous PO's installed the bullet blinkers as they were there when I bought it. Registered as a 1960 with a build date of September 24, 1959.

[iubhounds]

I turned the 60 DD around in my driveway so the back of it was facing my garage. I wanted to take off the plate the seller let me use, which I found out belonged to a 64 Impala based on what was written on the back of it. I taped on my temporary paper plate from Arizona's MVD. Looking at the gas lid they had sprayed primer over the chrome lock assembly. I wanted to clean it off to get to the 60 year old chrome and refirbish the mechanism.

Without too much trouble the mechanism came apart okay ... but user error at the end cost me. I went a little too far screwing it back together and broke off the screw that is built into the center piece of the lock mechanism.

I will look for a used one for sale here on Samba and last resort buy a new one and just use that center piece after I scuff it up a little to take the shine off. It was positined wrong so I put it back where it should be, pointing downward.

I know when I started the 64 DD up, I wanted to take off or a drive so bad but all I could imagine was leaving a trail of gear fluid behind me and possibly end up with no brakes.
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1960 VW Single Cab

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[iubhounds]

It was a North American export (UA).

[mandraks]

certainly looks like a German spec bus.

i looked in your gallery. looks like you have a swingaxle rear end with disc brakes:

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Uli

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'53 3-Fold Oval, L35 Metallic Blue, looking for a narrow hatch panel

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[iubhounds]

Looking at the edges of the semaphore cutout, they look original to the bus. No signs of a DYI job. Currently the left one works and I thought the right one worked when I left on the trip home, but that is not the case now. I am still researching if the bullet turn signals in front and the red lights in back should work at the same time as the semaphores.

As you will see from the photos any engine numbers in the engine bay or behind the passenger seat were painted over or possibly sanded over. No hint of even part of a number is visable anywhere.

The way the M-Code plate is not flush with the bulkhead tells it has been removed in the past. Is it the real one? Hard to say. The VIN on the plate has been titled for the past 3 owners counting myself. The seller told me the guy he bought this from had it for 14 years, but who knows what the VIN was the prior 40+ years if it is not the original.

They sanded all the outside and inside before etch primer yet they left the two window vent frames original. There you see some nice dark green over some salmon over the original dove blue. In photos sent by the seller before I bought it, I could see the rear was painted salmon color.

Here is the code from the plate:

24 09 9
360 175
UA 215 Blue 513***

Should I move this discussion to a different category instead of the current one?

[thom]

Took my engine out this weekend to replace the main seal, and installed new heater cables and connectors while I was at it.

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-Thom
1956 Single Cab
1957 Porsche 356A Sunroof
1957 23-Window Deluxe
1957 Mercedes Westfalia single cab
1963 Unimog 404
1965 E-Type

[guatebus]

Noticed some funkiness at the right rear when I was flushing my brake fluid the other day. I try to flush the system every couple of years as a good preventative maintenance item.

Disassembled today and found a frozen cylinder with a bad seal (see left piston in photo) and the bore looks like it's not worth honing. Cylinders were FTE (German) and installed in 2016. Disappointed that they didn't last that long.

Gonna install new cylinders/shoes and probably spring for new drums as well. And now that I think of it, my MC is 10 years old so I may replace that too (though that means thinking about if I want to do the dual circuit conversion, etc.).

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'64 standard microbus
'69 deluxe microbus

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[pyrOman]

Washed it... for the second and last time this lousy year!
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Some people are so busy being clever they don't have time enough to be wise.

[iubhounds]

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[iubhounds]

[mandraks]

[Busted-bolt]

[quote="guatebus"]Noticed some funkiness at the right rear when I was flushing my brake fluid the other day. I try to flush the system every couple of years as a good preventative maintenance item.

Disassembled today and found a frozen cylinder with a bad seal (see left piston in photo) and the bore looks like it's not worth honing. Cylinders were FTE (German) and installed in 2016. Disappointed that they didn't last that long.

Gonna install new cylinders/shoes and probably spring for new drums as well. And now that I think of it, my MC is 10 years old so I may replace that too (though that means thinking about if I want to do the dual circuit conversion, etc.).
I have noticed that when I ran my bus for even a short time with out the pedal splash pan in the rain, the cap on my master cylinder would get soaked with water. And thus I had the same problem with my front wheel cylinder about a year later. The master cylinder cap just has a vent hole so water intrusion is imminent when it is exposed to moisture .Some times in very humid climates water will contaminate the fluid regardless of any measures taken.

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Vw collection 60 combi ,61 panel ,62 deluxe micro,82 diesel Westfalia,88 Vanagon synchro,98 Jetta tdi,11 Jetta tdi mt ,11 Jetta tdi dsg.
I do all my own work,body,engine and transmission.

[Oldboxman]

Thank you!

[iubhounds]

I just looked back through this topic "what did you do for your Bus today?" ... all I see is what I did to the bus that day. Making some repairs to a 60 year old bus. I didn't see anywhere I was "crying and blaming the seller" ... but I was posting photos of what I was talking about and were discrepancies. Maybe you are feeling a little self guilt?

You didnt mention my last email to you yesterday when I did accept responsibility and said "a huge lesson learned" and that I would never pay for another bus sight unseen. The money was already in your account by the time I arrived and inspected the panel. You sent me on a 200+ mile trip knowing the the rear axle boots were leaking as well as in the area of the tranmission. What was your comment early in our email discussions after the purchase?? Something to the effect of you were glad you gave me that $2000 decrease at the last moment to "make corrections" ... you just admitted there you sales ad on samba was not accurate.

I am not crying and pouting publically, I am just making other potential Samba buyers aware of your game.

You took no responsibilty when you said you were "puzzled" and "sad this has happened" ... so you can man up Allan Miller. The van is being fixed, the backward windows and upside down headlights have and will be fixed, as well as other few things.

I will not take this to this forum anymore. This is my last comment here on Samba to you. You know where I live, come one down and we can discuss it face to face if you want. I have no problem with that. But like I said yesterday there is nothing to discuss in my email, I am getting the bus fixed and road worthy and that is all that matters.

[iubhounds]

The bumper on my 59 single cab sits a little bit like yours does. I am not sure of the cause since that bumper has been with the sc for many years based on previous owner photos.