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Dpugle
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 Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:59 pm Post subject: Re: Bringing a '73 Westy back to life... |
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| Hey man! I just got a 1970 vw hightop with 83 westfalia interior thats coming with it. What would you say was the hardest part about installing that into your 73? any advice? Thanks! great build by the way, and also another good reason to buy the Blaze cut. |
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levi20AE
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:06 am Post subject: Re: Bringing a '73 Westy back to life... |
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The most difficult part was figuring out how to mount the bed on the opposite side. I ended up modifying the '73 brackets and welding in nuts to the firewall to bolt on to. The later vanagon brackets are much nicer but became too much work to adapt since the rear area with the engine hatch is a few inches lower in the vanagon. Making the cabinets fit was pretty straight forward. I trimmed a little off the back at a time to make them fit tighter to the curved sides of a baywindow. The vanagons are almost perfectly vertical with no curve so the cabinets come very square. If you want to run the vanagon water tank you have to butcher up the interior of that cabinet but looking back I would not have bothered installing it probably been easier to fit a five gallon Jerry can somewhere and adapt a feed line for the sink.
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curtp07
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:14 am Post subject: Re: Bringing a '73 Westy back to life... |
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Wow! A Blazecut success story. Thanks for sharing!
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Dpugle
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:28 pm Post subject: Re: Bringing a '73 Westy back to life... |
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| The most difficult part was figuring out how to mount the bed on the opposite side. I ended up modifying the '73 brackets and welding in nuts to the firewall to bolt on to. The later vanagon brackets are much nicer but became too much work to adapt since the rear area with the engine hatch is a few inches lower in the vanagon. Making the cabinets fit was pretty straight forward. I trimmed a little off the back at a time to make them fit tighter to the curved sides of a baywindow. The vanagons are almost perfectly vertical with no curve so the cabinets come very square. If you want to run the vanagon water tank you have to butcher up the interior of that cabinet but looking back I would not have bothered installing it probably been easier to fit a five gallon Jerry can somewhere and adapt a feed line for the sink. |
Awesome! good info, I appreciate all the advice! yeah we will probably just do a jerry can for water. |
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sethpat
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| Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:01 am Post subject: Re: Bringing a '73 Westy back to life... |
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| I've read through this thread about three times now, you have an awesome build here. Early on, what type of paint did you use when you were doing rust repair and welding in new panels? Thanks for your time |
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Stuartzickefoose
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| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 7:18 am Post subject: Re: Bringing a '73 Westy back to life... |
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Any new updates? 
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