What did you do for your Bay recently?

[JaimeH]

I installed a ‘69 mirror I got from the classifieds. OMG what a difference. No more frequent adjustments trying in vain to see more than just headliner. Mirror even has anti-dazzle.
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1978 Transporter 2.0 FI, BA6
Special Thanks to Razor's Customs, Boscawen, NH

[Angus II]

Hello,
That's cool...

[andrewtf]

I have most things on my bus Murphy up to snuff now, so I am doing little fluffy odds and ends to make me happy.

My latest doo-dad is a little storage compartment behind the passenger seat. I had installed a swivel base and Vanagon seats. The space left at the back side of this has always bothered me, so I set out to find a solution.

The area just looks unfinished. I think the fact that we had to chop the bulkhead off ourselves and get the diagonal brace welded in, left things a lot more ragged looking than what a proper installation might be.

So I made a small plate out of steel and a little door out of wood and stuck them together with some left over piano hinge from the scrap pile. The small circle is a really strong magnet that holds the door closed.

I think it came out about as I hoped. Its no work of art, but it tidies up the spot a bit and making the top out of heavy metal means when it gets stepped on, it'll hold up. I admit not much fits in there (Yes - I know what those small areas are for. No Sandler videos - please) but I'll find something. Next I need to address the scruffy area at the brace. I'm open to suggestions.
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'75 Riviera - 'BIG EMMA' (Pan American highway trip paused for a make over)
'77 Riviera - Murphy' (being reborn.... slowly)
'63 Austin Healey

[andrewtf]

OK - I'll add another.
More fluff............

I was tired of the black tire cover on the front.

I took an old hubcap, taped off the logo, and painted it.
It is attached with two zip ties. One at the top and one at the bottom. The zip ties go thru the two holes for the hubcap puller and thru the holes in the wheel. I still need to trim the excess off the zip ties.
There is a hunk of dense foam wedged behind it to keep it from wiggling.

(I guess I need to center it a bit better.)
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'75 Riviera - 'BIG EMMA' (Pan American highway trip paused for a make over)
'77 Riviera - Murphy' (being reborn.... slowly)
'63 Austin Healey

[cmonSTART]

Or leave it like it is and see if anyone notices.

Looks good!
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'78 Bus 2.0FI
de K1IGS

[Angus II]

Hello, ^^^^.
It's those custom details...from the personal touch, that makes it yours.

[redhightop71]

Got my 71 Hightop running finally.

[HoboBus]

Got my awning configured and put up.

It's an 8x10 heavy duty tarp ($8 at Ocean State Job Lot, just a discount store.)

Horizontal poles are 3/4 emt conduit from Lowes ($6 for a 10 foot stick, bought 2)

I cut them in half and used an external sleeve made from a piece of tubing I had, and hitch pins ($3) to hold them together. One side bolts to the roof rack. The other side I flattened the ends of the emt 3" long and drilled a hole that slips over the pin on the top of my vertical poles.

The vertical poles and stakes and ropes I had. Those poles come apart for storage also.

So it all folds in half and all the poles get rolled up in the tarp, and it can store in the bus or on the roof rack.

For a total of about $23 it seems good, we'll see how it works when i get camping in a few weeks.

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Salt air it ain't thin, it'll stick right to your skin,
it'll make you feel fine. Makes you feel fine.
And I wanna be there. -- Jimmy Buffett

Just a beach-oriented camping Hobo with a bus.

[scubasteve321]

Hobo;


Very timely, a home-made awning was on my mind on the drive back from my last adventure in my Bus

Could you post more pictures of your connections between the vertical and horizontal poles, as well as the tarp to the poles, and the pole to the roof rack??


Super nice job by the way!
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1971 Campmobile Tin-Top
1971 Campmobile Pop-Top
1974 VW Bus

[HoboBus]

[scubasteve321]

Those help a lot; greatly appreciated!

Happy Busin'
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1971 Campmobile Tin-Top
1971 Campmobile Pop-Top
1974 VW Bus

[bvolks]

I finally got around to replacing the rear wheel bearing on the truck. It was toast when I bought it 26 years ago and had only gotten worse from yard driving over the years, so I just took the whole hub assembly from my '72 parts Bus. One thing I didn't notice was the hole for the wheel cylinder was threaded on the '71 but isn't on the '72. I had to use a nut and bolt to hold the wheel cylinder on. I assume the wheel cylinder must be threaded on the '72 and up.

I see where the outer bearing ended up.

It even wore the bottom off of the brake adjuster. Lol.

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1985 Diesel Jetta Coupe (temporarily retired at
756,000 km)
1971 Doublecab project
1995 Golf CL
1974 Beetle
1978 Westfalia

[cdennisg]

[veskovici]

Squeaking brakes? Done.

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Oval 1954
Barndoor1954
Doubledoorsunroof

[Angus II]

Hello,
Cool, that the shoes came already beveled for you. That would have been a great time to cleanup and grease the threaded adjuster stud and star wheel..... Maybe, next time.

[Fozzy]

I pulled the bumpers apart and in an attempt to gain some skills on using HVLP gun. Got the holes welded up, ground down and some of the dents and waves fixed. After primer, I should have worked more on the dents and waves. but, hey, they look 100% better than they did and I can now redo them when the urge strikes. I bought new rubber step pads, new plastic bumper end seals and new hardware kits for front and back.. All I need to do is give it another day to dry, reassemble the bumpers and brackets and put them back on.. its been well over a year since I removed them to repair the cancer on the body and front floor

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65 Sedan..
Adopted 07/15/17
this is the bug I've been looking for..

71 Tin Top Westy
Adopted Dec or so 2017

[HoboBus]

Rearranged how I put the mountain bike inside the bus.

I originally had it with the front wheel attached, and the bike on an angle inside. It fits that way, but makes it hard to access the rest of the interior, and pack stuff.

So I made this front support / bike stand. It's just made from a scrap 2x3 I had in the wood pile. It's a first attempt - it could surely be made from smaller material.

Works good though. Take off the front wheel with the quick connect. The stand just slips over the bare fork, and allows the bike to be off to the side so I can easily access the cargo area with the bike inside.

Riveting tech, I know. But it's way better this way.

Hobo

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Salt air it ain't thin, it'll stick right to your skin,
it'll make you feel fine. Makes you feel fine.
And I wanna be there. -- Jimmy Buffett

Just a beach-oriented camping Hobo with a bus.

[Davydomes]

[Fozzy]

I put the front and back bumpers together and then mounted them.. so far it was probably a bigger pain in the arse than rewelding the back corners on! lol
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65 Sedan..
Adopted 07/15/17
this is the bug I've been looking for..

71 Tin Top Westy
Adopted Dec or so 2017

[ernie norley]

G'day all. I took my bay to panelshop for blast repair & paint

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