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Breck
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Yeah my rear bumper is orange too. Pics in my gallery...
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Wow I really love the simple uncluttered interior of your bus!! My rear bumper is in the process of being stripped for repainting. It is white rt now. After seeing your pics I am leaning towards painting it the Neptune blue like the bus. Love your bus man!! looks awesome!!  |
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airschooled
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| asiab3 wrote: |
Yeah my rear bumper is orange too. Pics in my gallery...
Are you going to leave yours like they are? |
Wow I really love the simple uncluttered interior of your bus!! My rear bumper is in the process of being stripped for repainting. It is white rt now. After seeing your pics I am leaning towards painting it the Neptune blue like the bus. Love your bus man!! looks awesome!! |
Thanks! I photoshopped some white bumpers on my bus a while back, and I really liked the look. But the consistent color makes my bus unique, so I'll hold off for a few more years. Having limited funds helps too……
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Breck
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| asiab3 wrote: |
Yeah my rear bumper is orange too. Pics in my gallery...
Are you going to leave yours like they are? |
Wow I really love the simple uncluttered interior of your bus!! My rear bumper is in the process of being stripped for repainting. It is white rt now. After seeing your pics I am leaning towards painting it the Neptune blue like the bus. Love your bus man!! looks awesome!! |
Thanks! I photoshopped some white bumpers on my bus a while back, and I really liked the look. But the consistent color makes my bus unique, so I'll hold off for a few more years. Having limited funds helps too…… |
If I can get a color match I will paint my rear bumper blue, If I don't like it I can always change it back.. |
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Breck
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Put my new tail light assemblies in today!!!! Now my brake lights don't work    Looks like I am gonna get to chase some electrical gremlins!! My brake lights have always been intermittent....now they aren't!! |
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airschooled
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| Put my new tail light assemblies in today!!!! Now my brake lights don't work Looks like I am gonna get to chase some electrical gremlins!! My brake lights have always been intermittent....now they aren't!! |
Clean ALLLLLL the grounds in the engine compartment 
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Breck
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| Put my new tail light assemblies in today!!!! Now my brake lights don't work Looks like I am gonna get to chase some electrical gremlins!! My brake lights have always been intermittent....now they aren't!! |
Clean ALLLLLL the grounds in the engine compartment |
Got it will do! |
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Breck
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All lights are in working order now!! It was a dodgy hazard flasher unit causing the problem, had the dash out then back in, all lights work but........now my speedo is not  Guess the dash is coming back out on my next weekend!! Breck |
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Breck
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This weekend was the time to make a temporary repair to my rusty front floors. Now lets all play nicely!!! I am a function over form guy and I am building this bus for camping adventures. One day, prolly in the winter, I will have new floors and two new dog legs put in but for now here are some pictures of the process that I used to keep it running for the summer. The first picture shows the PO's previous temp repair.
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The first thing that I did was to pop out all the old fiberglass that the PO had installed. Then using a variety of tools cleaned all the rust out, cleaned the area with acetone then painted with poor mans por-15.
Here is what it looked like after the prep work was done.
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Breck
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Here is a picture showing all the old stuff that I removed.
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Breck
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Because the passenger side was wasted on two sides I decided to add a little strength. I used some 1/8" aluminium plate and some rivets before laying down some 6 lb cloth then followed with 12 lb cloth multiple layers of each. I used west marines 105 resin for all the repairs. I have had real good success with adhesion with the west marine's products all be it a little spendy.
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Breck
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Drivers side was not as bad so only one small plate.
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Breck
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First layers of the lighter cloth.
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Second layer of the heavier cloth.
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Breck
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After resin.
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Breck
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Now the other side.
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Next weekend I will be covering the whole repair with Hurculiner roll on truck bed protector. I plan to do the same through out the whole bus.
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