Ratty Split Mission.....Custom Interior

GFresh · Post by **GFresh** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:29 pm

Did a little bit more today.

kept ticking away at preparing to get the roof straightened, removed the pop out on the left side and unpicked the inner panel skin, this will make for easier straightening of the skin out of the body and should hold less stress on the roof when I go to straighten it too,

at least that's the plan,

Just need to run a nice clean cut down near the bottom to remove it, I will have a go at that tomorrow when the neighbours won't mind all the noise.

GFresh · Post by **GFresh** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:20 pm

More pics

Few more things to unpick and then I will be ready to straighten the roof

GFresh · Post by **GFresh** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 4:30 pm

Started to get in and straighten the roof today.

It's getting there, a bit more tweeking and then into the dolly work

happy days

warb · Post by **warb** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 4:56 pm

nice one, what you putting in the hole, another winda or vents??..

GFresh · Post by **GFresh** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:13 pm

warb wrote:nice one, what you putting in the hole, another winda or vents??..

Hmmm....

What do ya reckon Warb..... maybe a 12 window???

you don't see that every day

leighroy · Post by **leighroy** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:40 pm

geez mate, gotta be happy with that !!

startin to think you're in the wrong line of work !!!!

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:39 am

Bloody good work, mate!

zeuspig · Post by **zeuspig** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:27 am

Great work mate, coming along nicely

GFresh · Post by **GFresh** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:20 am

Straightened out the LH inner corner skin and the vent is almost done.

I had to seperate all of the vent flutes to get access to straighten them but with the inner skin removed I will have good access to weld the vent back in, the plan is to just measure them up and tack them in nice an even.

I know you can pick up vents in good nick for pretty cheep but I just wanted to see if it could be done, after all what hapens when there is no more splits left to cut up

next task is to weld in the vents

nick62 · Post by **nick62** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:33 am

F#ck me that is REAL dedication! Love your waste not attitude. LOVE your work

warb · Post by **warb** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:40 am

nice panel work on tat inner skin...

leighroy · Post by **leighroy** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:27 pm

it's great to see you rebirthing bits !!! if more people did that, ones like us would enjoy seeing more buses at the vw day outs !!!!! great job, keep it up. bet the missus happy about the kitchen work bench

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whipps · Post by **whipps** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:57 pm

nice work mate. keeping the original patina intact is worth all the effort! just taken those inner vent skins out of my 67', bugger of a job!

morts · Post by **morts** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 6:37 pm

very impessive.....

GFresh · Post by **GFresh** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:09 pm

Started to stitch in the vent today.

First off measured up the dimensions off the good RH side vent (1.6") about 41mm between vents.

Pinned up the vent section and lined it up at the rear first and tacked it in then lined up the fwd part of the vent, as the fwd part has been sliced with the grinder this had left a gap of about 1 mm, so to fill the gap I used a 2.5mm welding rod with the flux removed and poked it in from behind, this gave me something with a bit more meat to bite into.

I should have the vents all in by tomorrow and will post more pics then

Ratty Split Mission.....Custom Interior

LH Inner Panel

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Roof Straightening

roof job

inner skin and vent work

splitty vents

stitching in the vent