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orangebug60guy Twin #1
Joined: June 28, 2003 Posts: 1516 Location: South Hadley Mass
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Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 7:40 am Post subject: |
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Last night I removed the old beam from the bus. There was a lot of hidden rust holes on the shock towers! Good thing I am replacing this mess. I am going to clean up and finish welding in the center frame piece and hopefully clean up the rest of the front area.
Huge hole:
Old vs new
Finally put new grease fittings in and pumped it full of grease. Front beams are pretty heavy when everything is attached to it! _________________ Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
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60vwnewengland Twin #2
Joined: June 25, 2003 Posts: 1784 Location: District of Columbia & Cape Cod
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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orangebug60guy wrote: |
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That's crazy!!! Not sure if I've ever seen a beam rust out in that spot? _________________ 77 Westy - Cape Cod Sage
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orangebug60guy Twin #1
Joined: June 28, 2003 Posts: 1516 Location: South Hadley Mass
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 9:54 am Post subject: |
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found some OG sea blue under 49 years of grease, dirt, more grease, and sand. Cleaned up the passenger side wheel well last night. Going to purple power then paint it. Gotta get the new beam back in it.
cleaned the area where the beam sits as well. Factory or was this painted grey?
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Pinetops Samba Member
Joined: March 24, 2007 Posts: 2987
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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orangebug60guy wrote: |
found some OG sea blue under 49 years of grease, dirt, more grease, and sand. Cleaned up the passenger side wheel well last night. Going to purple power then paint it. Gotta get the new beam back in it.
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I've sprayed paint over surface rust like that and within a few weeks the rust had come through the paint, I would've been better off just waxing or oiling it.
I'd suggest grinding that rust down until there is no red dust.
these work pretty good:
http://www.amazon.com/3M-9099DCNA-Large-Paint-Stripper/dp/B00004Z4DV
Then treat it with phosphoric acid or a product that uses it as a main ingredient. Clean that off and then use wax and grease remover, then zinc primer if you can get some, then paint. Otherwise that rust will likely just come back through in short order and still be eating away at the metal. _________________ "A rolling bus gathers no rust." |
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j.pickens Samba Member
Joined: December 03, 2002 Posts: 9791 Location: Exit 7, New Jersey
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I agree. Wire wheel or other abrasives down to as far as you can get to metal, ospho, solvent deglosser, then rust preventive paint like POR15 or Eastwood rust encapsulator. _________________ Founder and Chairman Emeritus, ECMSAS
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Clara Samba Member
Joined: June 14, 2003 Posts: 12401
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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just smear grease on it. _________________ The Obsolete Air-Cooled Documentation Project http://oacdp.org/ |
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2Pack Samba Member
Joined: September 20, 2005 Posts: 807 Location: Virginia
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 7:11 am Post subject: |
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KWZ Samba Member
Joined: July 11, 2004 Posts: 1341 Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 8:49 am Post subject: |
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Love this bus. Not to hijack, but anyone else notice this RHD standard slider in the vintage pics?
_________________ '57 sunroof Standard
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Who.Me? Samba Member
Joined: July 14, 2014 Posts: 2211 Location: UK (South)
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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:15 am Post subject: |
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KWZ wrote: |
Love this bus. Not to hijack, but anyone else notice this RHD standard slider in the vintage pics?
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Who.Me? Samba Member
Joined: July 14, 2014 Posts: 2211 Location: UK (South)
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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, and someone's flipped that image ^^^. It says 'Love' on the cab door, if you flip it. |
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KWZ Samba Member
Joined: July 11, 2004 Posts: 1341 Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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Who.Me? wrote: |
Oh, and someone's flipped that image ^^^. It says 'Love' on the cab door, if you flip it. |
Good catch. Can't quite make out a gas door though. _________________ '57 sunroof Standard
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Joined: April 11, 2000 Posts: 69830 Location: Phoenix Metro
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mandraks Samba Member
Joined: November 28, 2004 Posts: 7050 Location: Lawrenceville, Ga
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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i don't think the image was reversed.
if the blue car is a morris minor than it would have its' gas door on the left hand side, not on the right.
Also the way they are parked makes sense when you drive RHD.
either way, that would be a double door slider? _________________ regards
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orangebug60guy Twin #1
Joined: June 28, 2003 Posts: 1516 Location: South Hadley Mass
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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update on some metal work finally.
I just removed the out rigger and jackpoint in order to weld in new ones but without everything it looks like this!
outrigger had to modified to fit. It is shorter due to the inner rocker, same with the jackpoint.The inner rocker for the door was tricky. I have not had a chance to crawl under a bay window but is it the same.
placement:
messy mig welding but its strong and secure.
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orangebug60guy Twin #1
Joined: June 28, 2003 Posts: 1516 Location: South Hadley Mass
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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Update:
Got all the parts swapped from the old beam. Dampener, shocks. Now I'm just waiting on my spindles from Greg.
Also installed a new drag link.
Now I've been trying to find a sea blu color match from krylon. I thought that a while ago that global blue was a close match. WRONG. Still think true blue is the closest match. Not happy with the test. So i'm going to spray it back to grey for the underside.
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orangebug60guy Twin #1
Joined: June 28, 2003 Posts: 1516 Location: South Hadley Mass
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 10:32 am Post subject: |
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got some goodies in the mail yesterday. Freshly rebuilt spindles from campingbox with some very nice backing plates. Now out to the garage in this wicked heat.
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orangebug60guy Twin #1
Joined: June 28, 2003 Posts: 1516 Location: South Hadley Mass
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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So I spent yesterday and today putting the spindles on the beam and then wrestling it in place.
The spindles from Greg are so nice. Putting them on and and adjusting them was pretty straight forward.
My girlfriend helped me fly the beam in place. A little of this and a little of that some swearing and BAM! I also installed the drag link. Every moves great!
Tomorrow. Shift linkage and welding the last frame cross member. I figured it would be easier to install the linkage without that cross member there. Then front brakes. _________________ Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
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tisius Samba Member
Joined: July 11, 2011 Posts: 1570 Location: Rotterdam,NL (+Chicago,IL)
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Now that is by far the quickest conversion from LHD to RHD I've ever seen performed _________________ drive it like you just robbed the bank
you don't have to be crazy to be into VW's, but it sure helps!!
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vwbusman66 Samba Member
Joined: May 17, 2014 Posts: 386 Location: Kingsville, MD
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 5:42 am Post subject: |
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mandraks wrote: |
http://www.alanhschofield.com/
some of us old guys have been looking at his parts for a long time, since the late 80s early 90s Especially in Europe. |
My dad and Kelley Brown spent 8k on schofield parts back in the late 90's
Without him, our 66 21 wouldn't be kicking around. _________________ WANTED: Annis Morrill Corp. dealer information and stuff
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orangebug60guy Twin #1
Joined: June 28, 2003 Posts: 1516 Location: South Hadley Mass
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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finally got everything together.
Link
Welded in cross member support.
outside in the day light for the first time this year. I only have 6 days before school starts back up I better make it count.
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