latest project 65 standard

Mitch Case · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: latest project 65 standard

I finished my last project so I picked up a new one. This bus belongs to a friend of mine. Were going to just pull the dents straighten it up and put it in a flat finish most likely a two tone.

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Mitch Case · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:58 pm Post subject:

The bus is actually a really nice bus no rust and only some minor dents.

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Culito · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject:

Nice bus.

You need to drop that front end down a few inches to level 'er out!
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MrBusCo · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject:

you are gonna keep the stinger, right?

Mitch Case · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:01 am Post subject: a little more progress

I started by using the long board sander to take off the primer and show any small dents. I pulled the dents filled them and striped the passenger front door. I am planning on using a high fill polyester primer. Then blocking that and finishing with a colored primer or hot rod flatz paint. I will be painting the front doors on the interior with L87 Pearlwies to match the dash. As this bus was a true Kombi the cargo area was left in primer from the factory.

The nose has a few dents so I am going to work on that tomorow and finish stripping the nose as its really rock chiped under the primer.

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Tone Dog · Samba Member Joined: December 19, 2003 Posts: 57

REally nice work Mitch and the bus is looking good..Peace Tone DOg

Mitch Case · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:34 am Post subject:

Another productive day. Jody and Cora came over to play in the garage.
Cora striped the nose and I began pulling the dents.

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Mitch Case · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:39 am Post subject:

The driver qtr was next. The bus must have been hit some time in its history then a bad repair was done but not finished. Its dificult to see in the pictures but the belt line area was hit and it pushed in the jam. I welded a pull on the jam to get a grip and pull it out. You may have to use your imagine ation here as the pictures don't show all.

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Mitch Case · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:41 am Post subject:

I welded another plate to the belt line and pulled it out as well.

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BarryL · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:09 am Post subject:

So that's how that's done! On the nose pull and miscellaneous small dents do you use one of those little stud puller things or what? You are amazing and inspiring. Thanks for showing the how-to and progress.

Mitch Case · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:27 am Post subject:

There is a few ways to pull dents from a double panel. The most common is to use a weld on copper nail and use a slide hammer that grabs the nail. This has been shown on many other forums. I used to do it that way, but it was time consuming and you had to take off the nails and grind the spot where it welded itself to. I got good at taking it off with out leaving the head of the nail but sometimes it welded itself to much and I had to grind off the nail head. I saw a guy using a pro spot PR2 dent pulling system so I bought that. It was expensive but I would never go back. Its basically a one sided spot welder that actually welds the slide hammer directly to the panel to be pulled. With a quick slide of the hammer and a twist of the handle the dent pulls right out and the handle comes off.

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Mitch Case · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject: away for a while

I'm back its been a while that I had the feeling of wanting to work on this project. I was hell bent on getting another project moved along. I started out tonight with a few cold beers cleaning up the garage. Then I fired up this bus and it just called to me to work on it. I cranked up the sterio as loud as I could blasting Robert Earl King the road goes on for ever and away I went. Here are some shots of the latest progress.

I started striping the driver long pannel and ofcourse its worse than what you first think.

What looks like some harmless surface rust only hides what is really hiding underneath.

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Mitch Case · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject:

I want to go step by step on the process I use to fix a small rust out section like this. If I had the time and space I would have sand blasted this inside area and used por 15 to seal it up. I just used por 15 and did the best I could.

I used a long blower and a vacume and sucked out what I could on either side of the whole.
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Mitch Case · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject:

To start I took some masking tape and coverd the whole.

I cut it out and transfered it to my new piece of metal.

I used a pair of cutting sheers and made the ruff cut.

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Mitch Case · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

I used a 3 inch roloc grinder to trim the metal so it just fit in the whole. I bent it over a hard roll of papper a welding gas tank would work as well. I held it up to the existing rocker to check for the right contour.

I used a few tack welds to hold it in place then I weld along the seem about a 1/2 inch then skip a 1/2 inch and go around the panel so as to not make it to hot and warp it.

Some grinding with a flapper disc with 60 grit and I'm done.

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Mitch Case · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:

some more work done. I striped the rear corner which I thought was good but of course more dents hidden with filler.

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ConcreteBalloon · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:16 pm Post subject:

wow, amazing work!

Mitch Case · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject: progress 5/5/08

I got some more done on the bus I have been waiting for a nice day to primer the bus so in the mean time I started on the rocker replacement. Gearsons parts are the bomb they fit very well with little to no tweaking.