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beerdoc wrote:Great work

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Top work! Good to see another panel saved

Wow, a real professional job.
That'll be a very nice bus.

thanks gents for the replies,makes it abit more inspiring to get out into that bloody cold shed a keep going,it has been a long winter out there! i think running that old kero heater is gonna cost me more than the panels ive replaced

paul

Spring's here and the shed will be at least 2 degrees warmer....

hope it warms my enthuiasm by 3 degrees
to get out there
cheers paul

Paul keep pluggin away looks like your doing a great job. was that a new skin you made for the cargo door or a purchased one?

nIck

hey nick ,i made it, was alittle tricky making the ridge bit whatever you call it ,got the rollers and went off the orignal came out ok ,pop over for a beer when ur round my area

found some old lead repairs i had to get rid of but who ever did them did a bloody good job,i didnt see them till the grinding sparks stopped which gave them away


hows that for lead fill!!






ground back came out ok, looked a little closer and found abit more rust



done almost


time to take the front panels off , inner valance wasnt the best!!!!! the whole front was rooted


rusty?





i tried sticky tape but it doesnt work!!!



needed to do some repairs on the drivers side ,had a tap years ago, it hadnt put too much out of place but needed to be repaired but i did notice that the top hinge has been movedslightly inwards so that needs to be fixed as well, bitch of a job that will be but ill do it before the front skin goes on so ive got some acess to the back of the hindge mount or something like that anyway

someone got the bronze out and had a go


hard to see the dents in the pillar but they are there and some were deepish!

the new


old

welded in and ground ,i braced the sides of the piller while the panel was welded in and there was no movement that i could see ,ill find out when the new skin goes on

I can't wait to see how you do the lower and inner valance as I have to do mine too.

fly life wrote:hey nick ,i made it, was alittle tricky making the ridge bit whatever you call it ,got the rollers and went off the orignal came out ok ,pop over for a beer when ur round my area

Nice work making that skin I bet you had heaps of fun getting that belt line ridge profile I'de be shitting it putting in the second crease.

Nice of them to fix the inner rail with lead, carn't beat a bit of semi structural lead hey!

I'll def'ty be over soon for a beer and gander.

fast forward a coupla years , lost track of this post,work held me back on this bus ,anyway some progress pics







the obvious panels were replaced, front skin was a prick to fit but got it eventually (not fitted here though)

replaced the whole bulkhead , had fun getting the old one out, tons of spot welds to drill out








give it a good wire brush, just some surface rust , cleaned up pretty good



finally got the thing fitted in one piece

Looking good!