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skills@eurocarsplus Samba Peckerhead
Joined: January 01, 2007 Posts: 16859 Location: sticksville, ct.
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:25 am Post subject: |
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and everyone's definition of restoration varies wildly...
congrats on the project. looks like fun _________________
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my reason for switching to subaru is my german car was turning chinese so i said fuck it and went japanese....... |
Jake Raby wrote: |
Thanks for the correction. I used to be a nice guy, then I ruined it by exposing myself to the public. |
Brian wrote: |
Also the fact that people are agreeing with Skills, it's a turn of events for samba history |
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:19 am Post subject: |
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skills@eurocarsplus wrote: |
and everyone's definition of restoration varies wildly...
congrats on the project. looks like fun |
Yeah, I'm not doing a full factory style restoration. I threw that idea out when I got it because the engine wasn't original to the bus. But I'll bring it back to a very solid bus with a nice basic retro interior. I plan on using it as my daily driver. |
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a1steaksauce Samba Member
Joined: September 23, 2010 Posts: 612
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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skills@eurocarsplus wrote: |
and everyone's definition of restoration varies wildly... |
That's putting it the nicest way possible lol |
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:01 pm Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration) |
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Got the floor welded in tonight. Not completely cleaned up yet but it's 1am... Monday night I got one of the outriggers in, patched the hole from a PO and made+installed the flat triangular shaped peices of metal under the floor board. Starting to make progress. I like it. Can't wait to have this back on the road again. And yes, I did clean and undercoat before installing the floor.
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:20 pm Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration) |
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So, we got a few things done now. We got the front inner welded in. As well as the front nose section, which we found we needed to patch the passenger side right near the headlight, so we did some dent pulling and made a patch. I think it looks pretty good. We also got the sliding door working, and welded in the lower rail. and welded in the passenger quarter panel. It's like I'm getting the van back together! I also did some cleaning up of the driver side window wells and seams (we are going seamless on this van, hate it all you want. I may too when this is all done, but we'll see.) Here are some pictures.
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
Joined: January 08, 2011 Posts: 3104 Location: Tulsa, OK
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:42 am Post subject: |
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hooo doggies that's looking real clean. Are you planning on making it green on the outside again? I love a green early bay. I do!
Anyway, sick work. Congrats _________________ -Tony
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:10 am Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration) |
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secretsubmariner wrote: |
hooo doggies that's looking real clean. Are you planning on making it green on the outside again? I love a green early bay. I do!
Anyway, sick work. Congrats |
We actually plan on having it white on the interior and aqua on the outside with a white roof.
In other news, I got the floor welded up some more. So my door rail is solid now. Which should help the door shut much nicer now. |
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milly the bus Samba Member
Joined: September 17, 2015 Posts: 9 Location: under the eliphants tail
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:13 am Post subject: |
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thank you for the update. i cannot wait to see more of the restoration process. I don't like seeing polished parked cars. Driving, enjoying and sometimes fixing makes me happy. You meet the nicest people when you drive a vw |
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secretsubmariner Champagne Wrangler
Joined: January 08, 2011 Posts: 3104 Location: Tulsa, OK
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:22 am Post subject: |
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milly the bus wrote: |
You meet the nicest people when you drive a vw |
Yeah, no shit! I've made many life-long friends of all ages and backgrounds, from Vietnam Vets to professional welders, to Old Salty Badgers who just don't give a f*ck. Gotta love 'em.
You also run into absolute jackasses, too. But they aren't 'with it'
sadly, those type of folks are without.
That slider door track is on point. Keep it up! _________________ -Tony
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:54 am Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 Transporter (Restoration) |
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Thanks guys! I plan on this being my daily driver (At least spring through fall, I have all my friends telling me I cant drive it during the winter because its gonna rust back through. Meh, that's just gonna happen. But I don't have heat, so i probably wont drive it in the winter unless I have to.)
Anyways, Thank you for the support. It's becoming a much longer project than I was hoping it would be, I was real frustrated with it for a while, but it is starting to get near the end. Just have to do some more fabrication for the A-pillars and behind the doglegs. And maybe under the front windshield.
I'll make sure to keep everyone posted on progress |
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:15 pm Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration) |
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Tonight was not as productive as I had hoped, but we did get the inner of the drivers dogleg in and self tapped the dog leg. I also welded in the front outfitter on the passenger side (no pic) and I prepped the rear outrigger on the passenger side. Hopefully Saturday I'll get the last two outriggers welded in and cleaned up while my buddy gets the dog leg welded in and ready to go
Here's a picture of the dog leg screwed into place. |
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ping349n Samba Member
Joined: July 28, 2011 Posts: 144 Location: Senoia GA
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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GREAT WORK!!! This is coming along nicely and very quickly. Nice to see the updates.
I see you got the Klassic Fab front floor and looks great. Just curious as to where you got your replacement metal from and how happy are you with the fit? In particular, the doglegs you just did. |
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 2:43 pm Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration) |
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ping349n wrote: |
GREAT WORK!!! This is coming along nicely and very quickly. Nice to see the updates.
I see you got the Klassic Fab front floor and looks great. Just curious as to where you got your replacement metal from and how happy are you with the fit? In particular, the doglegs you just did. |
Thanks! We actually just got the dog leg for the drivers side in. And that piece was awful!!!! It was better than nothing but the metal is soft and it was off by quite a bit, and we weren't able to get it completely straight and lined up with the door, so I'll have to do a little duraglass or bando work. If you can find one at Klassic fab instead I'd get that. It would be well worth the extra money. But I got the black pieces off of Wolfsburg west.
Here are some pictures. I'll post some more perhaps tomorrow night when it is completely in. |
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 6:56 am Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration) |
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ping349n wrote: |
GREAT WORK!!! This is coming along nicely and very quickly. Nice to see the updates.
I see you got the Klassic Fab front floor and looks great. Just curious as to where you got your replacement metal from and how happy are you with the fit? In particular, the doglegs you just did. |
So I got some more pictures of the dog leg last night. You can see that the dog leg just isn't quite right. There were gaps in places, it didn't line up with the floor so I had to make a shim. It doesn't follow the curvature of the door, and the metal is just soft. I plan on removing all the crappy paint they put on it and using probably POR 15 over the whole thing to try and keep out the rust. And just for the record I had a collision repair specialist helping me fit this for two hours. It wasn't the issue of experience or not putting it in correct, the curve of the dogleg just wasn't correct.
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 7:01 am Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration) |
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And I did some work last night. I patched the floor, the bottom of the dogleg, and the seat belt plate. I plan on just drilling through and welding the nut on the other side along with a large washer.
The black lining you see is panel bond, used as a filler and water seal. |
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 12:24 pm Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration) |
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So, a quick update. We went to line up the passenger dogleg and when we put the door on it stuck out at the bottom about two inches... Hmm... Weird. So I took a grinder to it, and there is more than an inch of Bondo on it... I have to get a new door... Sad day. We also took off the front windshield, the section under the front windshield also needs replaced (I'll be doing that tonight). None the less, we are short a dogleg, under the windshield, and the extra supports we are putting in under the main floor. After those get addressed the metal work will be completed. Here are some pictures. Enjoy. (Btw I'll 've going to find a door this Saturday at a local ish place, if they don't have one I'll have to find one on the samba)
The Bondo on the door... >.<
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 6:13 am Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration) |
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So, I told you guys I would have updates. I took out the old section under the windshield last night and cleaned it up, fit the new piece, and welded it about 95% in. I'm really happy with the top fitment, not as happy with the bottom fitment, but I'll be able to work with it for sure. I also took a "little"i bando off the sliding door to see the severity of the damage.
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scrivyscriv Samba Electrician
Joined: October 04, 2011 Posts: 2922 Location: Memphis
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Hey just some food for thought on the engine, you might end up running a little warmer than you want to...VW bumped up the air intake size when the T4 engine was introduced in the bus, you got any plans for extra air intake if CHT shows too hot?
It's a power downgrade but you could swap in a T1 and make bank on the T4 if it's as good as you're saying... then everything would be plug n play vs more fabrication and engineering for a bit of a bastard setup. Although I have to say you're the first guy I've seen putting a T4 into an early bay... Props for that! _________________ Robert in Memphis
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Engine rebuild thread
If you're ever in the Memphis area, you are welcome to stop by for advice and help. |
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 7:44 pm Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration) |
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scrivyscriv wrote: |
Hey just some food for thought on the engine, you might end up running a little warmer than you want to...VW bumped up the air intake size when the T4 engine was introduced in the bus, you got any plans for extra air intake if CHT shows too hot?
It's a power downgrade but you could swap in a T1 and make bank on the T4 if it's as good as you're saying... then everything would be plug n play vs more fabrication and engineering for a bit of a bastard setup. Although I have to say you're the first guy I've seen putting a T4 into an early bay... Props for that! |
1) Is a t4 really worth that much more than a t1?
2) since purchase I have found it is missing a thermostat, and perhaps a heat flap that the thermostat activates?
3) I have a few ideas on how to keep the temperature down, I expect it to read high initially. I plan on first fabricating some tin for the engine to seal it up a bit. Second defense if it still runs hot will be heat wrapping the exhaust, and then after that I will be looking into makshifting a engine seal? The t4 seal won't work nor will a t1... Or maybe I'll just have to 're-fab my engine tin. Ideas? Thoughts? Any I've tried that befores? |
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Spike0180 Samba Member
Joined: June 06, 2015 Posts: 2269 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:49 pm Post subject: My soon to be new 1970 vw transporter (restoration) |
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After getting back from my vacation last weekend, I got back and had a pleasant suprise! My door had come in the mail! So here are some pictures of that for you. It is fitting much better, I still have to get it to slide really smooth though. It gets caught right as it goes around the bend... Other bad news, the front window piece I just got done putting in was dented while I was gone... 😠
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