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DeLvxe
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 Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 8:50 am Post subject: Re: Building a bus for travel in Europe |
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| Bracket for the heater is installed. |
Looks great. What did you use to attach to the bottom of the van?
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DeLvxe
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| Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 10:42 am Post subject: Re: Building a bus for travel in Europe |
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| dobryan wrote: |
| Bracket for the heater is installed. |
Looks great. What did you use to attach to the bottom of the van? |
Aluminum angle. 3 Stainless 8mm bolts with nylock nuts. |
Thanks. I meant how did you attache the angle alum to the van. Did you just use self tapping stainless screws?
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joetiger
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| Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 12:05 pm Post subject: Re: Building a bus for travel in Europe |
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Got the interior all cleaned up. 
BTW I discovered to my pleasant surprise that you can remove over spray with Simple Green and the scratch pad on the back of a kitchen sponge. Worked great for the few areas I did not tape well enough. |
This is worthwhile information for any readers who may have over sprayed headliner dye last weekend. 
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loverofpeace
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| Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: Building a bus for travel in Europe |
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| Very cool project! Let me know when you plan on being in Europe. If it's later in 2021 or in 2022, you could probably just borrow my '82 Westy here in exchange for yours in the States at some point. It might be easier to coordinate this than having to ship yours over here and then back again. |
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dobryan
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| Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 4:07 pm Post subject: Re: Building a bus for travel in Europe |
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| Very cool project! Let me know when you plan on being in Europe. If it's later in 2021 or in 2022, you could probably just borrow my '82 Westy here in exchange for yours in the States at some point. It might be easier to coordinate this than having to ship yours over here and then back again. |
Thanks for the offer. I plan to keep my bus in Europe for the next 10 to 20 years for travels. So hopefully shipping is not a big deal.
I’ll let everyone know when I am in Europe. Maybe we can meet.
Any good VW clubs in Czech?
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https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=620646
Building a bus for travel in Europe (euroBus)
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=695371
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loverofpeace
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| Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 4:17 pm Post subject: Re: Building a bus for travel in Europe |
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| Very cool project! Let me know when you plan on being in Europe. If it's later in 2021 or in 2022, you could probably just borrow my '82 Westy here in exchange for yours in the States at some point. It might be easier to coordinate this than having to ship yours over here and then back again. |
Thanks for the offer. I plan to keep my bus in Europe for the next 10 to 20 years for travels. So hopefully shipping is not a big deal.
I’ll let everyone know when I am in Europe. Maybe we can meet.
Any good VW clubs in Czech? |
Ahhh in that case it's definitely worth it to ship it over here Should be like $1k or so from the East Coast depending on where you'll ship it to. I haven't gone to any meetings here personally cause the car club scene is not my thing anymore but there's a good presence here. You'll find lots of love for your van all across Europe though, the rectangular design is hip again
Right before Covid hit here, I had some guy in Poland ask me if I wanted to sell my T3. This happened while we were going through a construction zone with a snake of traffic behind me already and the dude swerving into the opposite unpaved lane so he could ride alongside me and yell stuff out the window in Polish (yeah our languages are similar but not exactly the same and it took me a good minute to even get what he wanted to the dismay of the drivers behind us). In other words, you'll have lots of fun here
By the way please let us know how that DC/DC charger is. I'm putting solar up in about a month (using the same MPPT charge controller) and was thinking about adding the inverter charging into the equation for the winter/rainy days. |
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danfromsyr
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| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: Building a bus for travel in Europe |
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that's tidyly tucked in there.
how much work is it to take out for deployment? or do you nestle your back side in there and use the table leg as an assistant? |
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dobryan
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that's tidyly tucked in there.
how much work is it to take out for deployment? or do you nestle your back side in there and use the table leg as an assistant? |
I have to lift the rear seat base in order to remove the toilet for use. Full disclosure, I did try a dry run with the toilet in the storage spot and it technically could be done but you cannot pull the dump handle. And it really is too cramped for even my narrow a$$. 
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Building a bus for travel in Europe (euroBus)
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=695371
The Western Syncro build
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Don't forget the reminder notice:
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tjet
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| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 9:13 pm Post subject: Re: Building a bus for travel in Europe |
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Can you deploy the bed & get a couple of photos? I just want to get an idea of the proximity of the bed to the kitchen unit & your toilet compartment mod - which is a great idea, BTW.
I got a porta potty as well. It's mainly to get into the beach camping that require you to have it (they will check). It's still sealed, and I never plan on using it, unless there's a hoard of zombies outside & I really need to go...
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/1972005.jpg
It's the smaller Dometic 972 with the optional locking mount system.
https://www.dometic.com/en-us/us/products/hygiene-...72-_-25288 |
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