New Bus build. Patch Panels and Repairs.

dannyogorman44

Customer came in with this bus. He wanted it back to Original look. Bus has had wheel wells cut out, baywindow lights and bay windows put in and vents welded up for plastic scoops. Im going to unfu@ck the bus and put it back to original.

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dannyogorman44 · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:24 pm Post subject:

tailights patched.

wheel wells repaired and vent welded back in left side.

On to the right side

Trouble in paradise. A bunch of nasty repairs and rust behind everything. Needs inner rocker, outer rocker, tophats, jack points, B piller and C piller.

dannyogorman44 · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:29 pm Post subject:

Got everything almost all cut out. Waiting on metal and Ill do the floor and everything between

dannyogorman44 · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:36 pm Post subject:

Everything inside almost all finsished. waiting on more metal.

starting outer right side. took a WW panel and a KF panel to make a whole correct piece.

All welded up

Floor in.

dannyogorman44 · Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:39 pm Post subject:

Rocker in.

Left Side Primed.

Thats all for now. Waiting on a window section to repair where hey put in the bay windows and a few other pieces. stay tuned

buses 'n bikes · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 2:13 am Post subject:

Wow, great work! Always great to see wheel wells being repaired, too!
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type47fan1 · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 6:13 am Post subject:

Nice to see this one going back to original. I remember it in the whine thread earlier in the year. Great work so far.
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bugcollections · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 8:46 am Post subject: patches

Great work!

RHD Notch · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 9:40 am Post subject:

That bus is going to have a really nice result...great work.
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quartermilecamel · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 6:37 pm Post subject:

I have WW wheel well repair pieces to weld in too. Did your WW panels have wrinkles at both ends where the raised lip dissapears. Mine have these wrinkles and I wondered how you got rid of them if you had the same issues.
Nice work too.
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dannyogorman44 · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 9:13 pm Post subject:

Yes the black WW repair panels were wrong in every way. The wheel lip profile was even wrong. I had to split it and reshape it and weld it back together to get the stock lip profile appearance. I went here locally to Ronnies Garage AKA Bustoration.com and bought the correct pieces. I had to splice into the back to get the correct flange to corner for spot welding and get the short rocker i think he calls it to splice in to the fornt for a door jamb opening and flange and also Ronnies pieces have the door hinge hole and hinge bolts holes already in them. The WW is also worng on the bottom as there is not enough room to correctly spot weld onto the the inner rocker. Give Ronnie a call at Bustoration.com and he would be glad to help you. The worse part for me was working with the black WW panels period. They are a nightmare to weld on and a nightmare to hammer and dolly or shrink. The green metal by far is a superior product. Not that Ronnie is a friend of mine being a biased opinion on green metal, but it is night and day working with the two metals. If you need more pictures of how I spliced all 3 pieces together to make one PM me your adress and I'll send you some close up pictures to help you out. Maybe just sell those WW panels at the next swap and buy the Green metal KF panels and have it right the first time. If I ever have to do these repairs again I'll never use the black WW panels. Hope this helps.

dannyogorman44 · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 9:16 pm Post subject:

Sorry to everyone waiting on more pictures. The holiday week has been crazy. I did finish up Joes White bus and I will post pictures tommorow. I have been working on a Double cab for the last couple nights cutting out rust and putting new green metal in. I will start a thread on this tommorow or the next day also. Thanks for all the great responses so far! It keeps me motivated to see people like the work that is getting done.

jeffreyned · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 9:24 pm Post subject:

Nice work! Thanks for the pics!
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dannyogorman44 · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 10:28 pm Post subject:

If I leave you guys stranded I'm also working on a doublecab so swap back and forth on the posts to see what is getting done. Thanks! Heres the posting link to the double cab.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6419595

dannyogorman44 · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 6:51 pm Post subject:

The saga continues. I had some time in between my other busses to work on this bus some more. He brought it back over this morning for me to take out the wrong baywindow windows that were installed and repair it with a 3 window section that he salvaged.

dannyogorman44 · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 6:52 pm Post subject:

dannyogorman44 · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 6:55 pm Post subject:

I was trying and planning on putting it on in one piece, but it wasn't working out. I split the panels, took out the pillars so I can repair those and I will reassemble it right. It is a lot of work, but will be worth it when its all done.
more pictures to come tommorow.

RPGreg2600 · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 6:57 pm Post subject:

Isn't it supposed to be a panel?

type47fan1 · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 6:59 pm Post subject:

dannyogorman44 · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 7:11 pm Post subject:

supposed to be a panel yes. I tried until I was blue in the face to make it back into a panel, but this is what he wants.


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