1964 Light Grey Kombi

[junichi]

Thanks, Dubskii. I wish mine was a 57 too!

Your paint stripping inspired me to do a bit more today. It sure what the bright yellow is but it's on there pretty good!

I am surprised how beige the "light grey" is.
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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[junichi]

Here is a better look and unfortunately there is not much light grey in here. The main light beigy colour is bondo. I should have known this was there as I can actually see the dent from inside

The rear cargo door is bad too. For now I think I will put this on hold and get back to welding. This will have to get fixed eventually. I may try a few test patches on the other side, which looks more promising.

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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[junichi]

I should be sleeping but I couldn't resist a little more investigation. It looks promising as I get past the damaged area...

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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[Gwdghiaguy]

Just read the whole thread and thanks for all the detail. I'll be doing a lot of the same stuff so I appreciate your help! Great bus!

byron
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[junichi]

Thanks and good luck with your project!
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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[junichi]

Out and about today. Still running a bit off and wants to stall intermittently, but I don't want to mess with it as it's running the best it's been.

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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[junichi]

So we had a great and long summer here and I got to drive and enjoy the bus a bit with my family. Just a few shirt trips since I am still working out the mechanical bugs and much of the metal work is still incomplete.

Insurance expired in October but I have not been very motivated. Did a little on my boat resto project but not much, and nothing with the bus. Now the rain is here...

Got a little motivation and started welding up my floor patches.

I have to seam weld the length of the cargo floor 4 times! I tell you, next time I wouldn't bother with patching in to save $$. This is going to take me 10x longer than if I bought the floor half sections...
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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[junichi]

Getting there on the floor seam welds. One more to go and then some finish grinding.

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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[Skim]

[ryans65]

Same with the front floor, even if you took a brand new complete floor, cut it down the center at the heater tube (so you don't have to pull the heater tube) then butt welded the two halves together and plugged the rest it would still be hours (days?) less work and mess than the outer patch panels.

[junichi]

I'm sure you're right about the front floor...but I already made that mistake too!

Not much progress despite the holidays..family time, replacing floors at home, not time wasted.

Saw the "mig light" and had to have one. Made it out of leftover cargo floor. Works great- highly recommended. No matter how it where I set up my lights, I always seem to cast a shadow on the gun tip...this fixes it.

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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[junichi]

Nose is coming along... Weld, grind, repeat:

And the floor is no longer full of gaps and holes, though still a lot of grinding to do:

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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[junichi]

I had a day off today. I did a bit of welding and grinding on the front floor.

And started the driver's side:

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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[junichi]

The gauges will stay, but the wiring dangling through the front floor had to go. I will find a new way to mount them.

Nowhere near done, but I got it roughed in..

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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[zuggbug]

Nice work
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[junichi]

It took most of today to do the final prep, fitting, and welding. Still have to seam weld and grind the side of the new panel. Wolfsburg West front floor panel was a great fit. It only needed some trimming/resending at the a-pillar and a bit near the seat stand, and I had to carve out the hole a bit where the headlight wires pass through. Highly recommend this part.

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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[junichi]

Had to add a little extra piece in the front floor..a bit rustier than I thought...

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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[junichi]

Also this weekend I made a little guage pod. I will probably paint it later, though it is stainless. Took most of the day to redo the wiring...it was a mess.

Edit: see "before" pic above...
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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[junichi]

And I played with paint stripping a bit. What colour is L345? I found a post here saying krylon river rock was similar. But it's what I would call beige... Much lighter than the paint I found on the lower half. It was under the green, then bright yellow primer, then beige, then a grey, which I think is primer?

On the top half under the white is beige, but not the same as the lower. It maybe was repainted to "match" the bottom? Then yellow primer, beige again, and grey. Shown here is the outer, non original beige on the upper body:

What colour is L345??? Is it beige? Different gallery pics of it look very different.. They call it light grey but is it really?
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1964 Kombi- http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=640048
Sold: 1985 Transporter Doka,1978 Westfalia, 1975 bay x 2, 1986 syncro vanagon, 1965 beetle, 1980 vanagon, 1967 deluxe bus, 1988 golf

[Eric&Barb]

L345 a grey with very light green tones in it.
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