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[MID WEST DUBBER]

Love your work mate! Some great ideas in there

[Shaven]

Very nice Matty. Keep it going.

[gaz]

Cool, I need to do the same for my lid.

[splitthis]

Well I better pull my finger out or Brad is going to beat me.
In hindsight I should have bought better doors when they were cheap but I refuse to pay todays prices so I guess I'll be fixing the shitters I have.

As expected the bottoms were toast.



Unfortunately these doors have some other issues too as well as a bullet hole.




Out with the old.


Trial fit then tack.



Weld all cleaned up. Still need to mess with the end section where the seal channel is. The KF panel is too wide so needs a cut and shut and the seal channel is off too. I meant to keep the OG one and use that but in a rush to clean up and I must have chucked it because I can't find it anywhere. Ill get this skin finished and then the inner frame before moving onto the rest of the door. More pics in a few weeks hopefully.

[braddick]

Great to see some progress buddy
Macksvilie 2020 is the target date
I think u should come up for a shooting weekend and we will weld that long sill on at the same stage, nice job

[splitthis]

Great to see some progress buddy
Macksvilie 2020 is the target date
I think u should come up for a shooting weekend and we will weld that long sill on at the same stage, nice job

I’m hoping to be all done next year but I’ve said that before

Keen as mustard to come up for a shoot and happy to give some unqualified advice on the long panel. It was the part I was most worried about messing up, but with a compressor to cool as you go and tack welds only it’s fine.

I’ll let the wife and baby settle in and maybe later this year/early next year we can make it happen. I’ll speak to you soon and try and figure out a time you guys aren’t too busy.

[splitthis]

Had a chance to get into the shed today, it’s been too long but life gets in the way. It was good to make some sparks fly after so long, hopefully i'll get a bit more time out there over the next few weeks but I won't hold my breath.

Started off by shortening the lower cargo skin I hadn’t quite finished last time. It comes from KF about 4mm too long on the face and as you can see it’s off in the seal channel too.


Came out very nice in the end


Then I went to fit the lower inner and surprise surprise it was way off too.
Left side is the worst


But right needed lots of work too.

[splitthis]

So before I started messing with it too much I stripped off the green paint and primed/painted the inside and copper primed the edges that were going to be plugged up.


I clamped it in rough and welded along the bottom of the door (after hanging it again to make sure the gaps/curve were right) and across the face of the inner brace. Once it was reasonably rigid and where it was going to end up I started pie cutting the crap out of it to get the two pieces to meet up.




It gets worse before it gets better




The other side was actually worse. I needed to completely cut the left side off, remove about 4mm and then weld it back on. And for some reason the KF panel has a step in it which wasn't on my door originally. I couldn't see any good reason to leave it there so I hammered that out too.





Bottom of the door done.

[splitthis]

Thats all I got finished today, I did find that the metal I cut from the lower inner frame will work to fix the crusty section under the window....... I really should have bought a better door back when stuff wasn't so crazy expensive.

[Steve Keeley]

Matt, skills looking better day by day- must be a good feeling. To make a bus really yours is to do as much of the work as you can. all power to those who do it all!!!

[rabidkombi]

Awesome work inspirational

[splitthis]

Thanks guys. The progress is definitely slower than I would like but every little bit gets me closer to driving this bloody thing.

[Jockster]

Nice work mate..I just made mine fit so it would look shit like the rest of it..

[gaz]

Good work mate, very handy to see home mods and fixes keep em coming.

[splitthis]

I had a couple of days recently to try and finish of my cargo doors....surprise surprise I didn't get that far but it's progress all the same. I spent ages (literally a day and a half on gaps) messing around with the gaps which was made worse by bent hinges and flex in the body where they mount and the doors themselves. I got them pretty damn nice though after cutting into the lower C pillar to fuck with the lower hinge mount.

Before


Skin welded in




Prepping for inner, primed, seam sealed and painted using high zinc epoxy and weld through in the areas that will get hot


Inner all burned in


I fucked this up a bit because I was rushing. I welded the skin in with the door on the bus, but took it off to do the inner and it has moved a few mm. Ill have to do a bit of a cut and shut to get the gap back to perfect along the bottom of the rear door, it's sitting 1.5mm high and a little too tucked to the right.


This was the previously rusty inner corner


And this was the bullet hole repair




It looks like i forgot to take a pic of the repair under the window to the front door but that turned out really nice, ill have to add a pic in the next update which should be finishing up this door and then onto rear hatch. ONLY 3 MORE DOORS TO GO!!!