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passoa55 
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 Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:55 am Post subject: 1967 walk trough pannel with accidental dammage! |
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I've restored this bus 5 years ago.
It was realy nice till now!
A SMART drove into the left rear side of the bus, turned around and hit the door, dogleg and frontbumper.
A luck he haves a good insurance and a good friend! 
A luck you can still find NOS parts.
Take a look!
http://forums.pre67vw.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=16298
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1955 lowlight lizard green
1955 original paint oval
1956 1600 super V-sunroof Porsche
1958 lowlight ghia black
1963 firetruckred 23 window
1967 SO42 westy
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microbus
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nice work...
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Aaron
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Looks good. How did you weld up high on the vertical forward seam on that? (Not the horizontal butt weld.) This area is hard to get to anyway and you are working on a walkthur so have to get around the tire holder.
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BarryL
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| Nos is sooooo nice. Are there a lot of these items still on earth? Yeah, how did you weld the upper part by the vents? From what little I know about it it's a good job. |
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Runboy
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You can see that he seemed it a couple inches below the beltline. That is why there is solid filler there to smooth out the weld.
Mike |
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passoa55
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The vertical part is glued with 3M glue for metalparts.
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1955 lowlight lizard green
1955 original paint oval
1956 1600 super V-sunroof Porsche
1958 lowlight ghia black
1963 firetruckred 23 window
1967 SO42 westy
1969 original paint Westy
1970 one owner 1300L bug |
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Aaron
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Runboy:
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| Looks good. How did you weld up high on the vertical forward seam on that? (Not the horizontal butt weld.) This area is hard to get to anyway and you are working on a walkthur so have to get around the tire holder. |
Passoa55:
thanks for the info. I thought maybe you had a special set of jaws for a spotwelder, or a really good trick for me. I have opened a "window" in the inner skin before to access upper most part of this area, it works but is a 1 step back, 2 steps forward kind of deal. I just pre-drilled the flange on the donor corner and plug welded bind, by feel, most of the way up.
Anyway, thanks for the info....
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Runboy
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| Aaron wrote: |
Runboy:
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| Looks good. How did you weld up high on the vertical forward seam on that? (Not the horizontal butt weld.) This area is hard to get to anyway and you are working on a walkthur so have to get around the tire holder. |
Passoa55:
thanks for the info. I thought maybe you had a special set of jaws for a spotwelder, or a really good trick for me. I have opened a "window" in the inner skin before to access upper most part of this area, it works but is a 1 step back, 2 steps forward kind of deal. I just pre-drilled the flange on the donor corner and plug welded bind, by feel, most of the way up.
Anyway, thanks for the info.... |
Ya, I gotcha.
The 3M panel adhesive is good stuff but I would at least want a nice plug weld at the top and bottom of that flange. I think your idea of cutting a window for accessing the very top for a plug weld, plug weld at the bottom, combined with the panel adhesive the rest of the way down may be a good option.
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BarryL
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| I used aircraft bolts in mine in each spot-weld hole. It took two guys to tighten them and start them; a major nightmare. I love the NOS stuff. |
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passoa55
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Ya, I gotcha.
The 3M panel adhesive is good stuff but I would at least want a nice plug weld at the top and bottom of that flange. I think your idea of cutting a window for accessing the very top for a plug weld, plug weld at the bottom, combined with the panel adhesive the rest of the way down may be a good option.
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It had some plug welds at the bottom near the splashpannel.
Is back in primer now.
Tomorrow painting inside.
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1950 Hebmuller #458
1955 lowlight lizard green
1955 original paint oval
1956 1600 super V-sunroof Porsche
1958 lowlight ghia black
1963 firetruckred 23 window
1967 SO42 westy
1969 original paint Westy
1970 one owner 1300L bug |
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LAGrunthaner
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| The vertical part is glued with 3M glue for metalparts. |
passoa55,
Wow very impressive. I did a search but I can't figure out which one you used. Can you get me the product number? I will use my MIG on my project but there are some areas I would like to try that stuff out on.
Thanks a ton,
Linda
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passoa55
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I will check what the number of the product is.
Some new pictures!
Bus is painted! 
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1950 Hebmuller #458
1955 lowlight lizard green
1955 original paint oval
1956 1600 super V-sunroof Porsche
1958 lowlight ghia black
1963 firetruckred 23 window
1967 SO42 westy
1969 original paint Westy
1970 one owner 1300L bug |
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passoa55
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That's all folks for this year! 
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1950 Hebmuller #458
1955 lowlight lizard green
1955 original paint oval
1956 1600 super V-sunroof Porsche
1958 lowlight ghia black
1963 firetruckred 23 window
1967 SO42 westy
1969 original paint Westy
1970 one owner 1300L bug |
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passoa55
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I've posted some pictures of the 3M glue that I used for the corner.
http://forums.pre67vw.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=16298
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1950 Hebmuller #458
1955 lowlight lizard green
1955 original paint oval
1956 1600 super V-sunroof Porsche
1958 lowlight ghia black
1963 firetruckred 23 window
1967 SO42 westy
1969 original paint Westy
1970 one owner 1300L bug |
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passoa55
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Last pictures are posted,
Looks nice to me!
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1955 lowlight lizard green
1955 original paint oval
1956 1600 super V-sunroof Porsche
1958 lowlight ghia black
1963 firetruckred 23 window
1967 SO42 westy
1969 original paint Westy
1970 one owner 1300L bug |
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zozo
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It's beautiful. Congrats.
Now come to Texas and fix mine.  |
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Major Woody
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| Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:50 pm Post subject: ! |
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| It looks really good. Nice! |
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passoa55
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It's beautiful. Congrats.
Now come to Texas and fix mine. |
That would be a long distance restoration!
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1950 Hebmuller #458
1955 lowlight lizard green
1955 original paint oval
1956 1600 super V-sunroof Porsche
1958 lowlight ghia black
1963 firetruckred 23 window
1967 SO42 westy
1969 original paint Westy
1970 one owner 1300L bug |
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