My turquoise eleven window bus

Leroy · Post by **Leroy** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:37 pm

Man, those cross members could withstand an atomic bomb

Nice clean work as always. Loving watching your progress on this thing again

johnno77 · Post by **johnno77** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:54 am

Nice work muscles.

oldturtle22 · Post by **oldturtle22** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:41 am

Love your work. Im about to start on rust repairs myself and was wondering where you get your panels from? Do you fab them yourself or have someone make them?
Cheers Chris

D-Train · Post by **D-Train** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:47 am

Lookin killer, makes me want to get into the shed an onto the dc.. But work stops me from doin it.. Damn work

Leroy · Post by **Leroy** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:17 pm

oldturtle22 wrote:Love your work. Im about to start on rust repairs myself and was wondering where you get your panels from?

www.dasrestoparts.com.au

mozzie · Post by **mozzie** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:57 pm

nice work brother

Shaven · Post by **Shaven** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:14 pm

D-Train wrote:Lookin killer, makes me want to get into the shed an onto the dc.. But work stops me from doin it.. Damn work

so does SC's & ovals

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:54 pm

cheers guys, your comments keep me motivated to climb under the rusty shitter! as for steel Al from Dasrestohaus is the man to see about some funky green (top bloke going out of his way to help me with a dogleg @ the moment), Bernie the spindle wizard sorts me out with autocraft panels (munstergarage). I make anything I can to save $$$ but it depends if I'm rich in TIME or rich in MONEY

deadkombi · Post by **deadkombi** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:41 pm

Nice work Josh. Keep it rolling so I know what to do next.

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:56 pm

got most of the cross member cut out but the chassis inner was also stuffed
so I made up a new section

Drivers side looks just as grim so ill have to do that too.

Leroy · Post by **Leroy** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:55 pm

Very cool

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:40 pm

did the same on the right hand chassis.

and started on the left hand rear wheel arch. Already had a previous repair from back in the day(pop-rivet special)

I made up a new section and welded it in. and hopefully back into it this arvo if this hangover releases me.

mat54 · Post by **mat54** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 11:23 pm

sweet bro

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:13 pm

Busy all day on the bus but, not much to show for it. I cut out the rusty section of the seat base that butts up to the front of the top hat. This ares creates a big water trap and is subsequently rusty, so I'm gonna redesign that bit a little.I also welded in some sections I made to fix the rusty areas behind the lower part of the bulkhead.

I'm jumping between a couple of jobs at the moment, one of them being the LH dogleg (tricky bastards, but I think i've got it sorted) I'll post up those pics once its all welded in.
I used some 2mm steel to replace the section I cut out. I changed the angle so it leaves a bigger gap for drainage from the compartment under the seat, so it no longer butts into the top hat. I noticed vw also moved away from that design on the later splits.
view from above

View from underneath

joshroom · Post by **joshroom** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:08 pm

seam sealed and primed the new section. So now I can cut up a new bit for the bottom of the bulkhead.