My turquoise eleven window bus

[joshroom]

After taking heaps of measurements, I finally welded in my lower inner front panel. Prior to doing this I took the opportunity to do a steering box raise. it's pretty much at floor level which will require the floor to be raised to clear the pitman arm/ball-joint (not a job for the purists).

used a bevel gauge to get the angle the same for both cuts.

view from the right hand side.

gusseted from the top, that section of the floor was cactus any way so it was handy to cut it out.


welded in top and bottom.

[FrankenCab]

alright nice stuff mmm should do this to the dc while its apart

[Leroy]

Said it before, but love the clean work! Top notch as always mate

[mozzie]

Nice work soldier solid!!!!!!

[deluxe hunter]

love the job on the st box raise. nice looking welds

[jvm]

Awesome work. The quality of the box raise is immense

[D-Train]

Hope u have a tight box for it.

Looks good

[joshroom]

A tight box would be nice Dion, mines not too bad hahaha. I'm just hoping someone comes up with a cheap rebuild kit sometime. Anyway I moved out of the workshop I was in, and back in the little shed. heres a few pics


welded in a new piece for the bulkhead, still gotta do the outer sections. Did a bit of mocking up and measuring.

made up and welded in a new section for the rear most top-hat section (Has the closed off bottom section)


Welded a bit of old chair leg onto my shift rod to replace the section I mangled trying to get it off.

[woval56]

great work, keep on rolling

[Zimblewinder]

Inspiring stuff! Now to find the time to use it . Wanta swap me for a paint roller? Keep it up.

Cheers
Dale

[joshroom]

Iv'e done a little more on my bus lately, pretty stoked really, by my maths I should have bus finished for my 90th birthday.
got the left hand side of the bulkead welded in. Welded in the front centre crossmember and the LHF outrigger welded in.



This is handmade outrigger in 2mm steel (like the tophat) you can see on the end where I got my measurements a bit wrong and had to section an re-weld it finish up nicely under inner rocker panel.

[joshroom]

I've got my IRS happening as well. I wasn't worried about cutting out the original frame horns as one was pretty rusty and had a cut n join repair and a piece of rio tacked along the top?? the other was rusty an full of oil and dirt.

so... I cut them out

mocked up the new legs with the gearbox mount and some G clamps.

welded in and Primed.

bolted up the control arms an clearanced the subframe.

[63 left hooker]

Mate, very impressed with the quality of your work...

Keep it up

[Leroy]

Nice to see further progress on this thing. Thanks for the update

[Roo]

My bus is this colour, and the roof was also painted white. I have a 62, this is a GREAT colour! Looks from the dash shot you do not have a fuel gauge? I think they started to fit gauges and drop the reserve tap in 62. What tail light setup do you have? Double round lights were not on 62-they went to the "oval" shape that continued through to round 71-72. wouldnt be hard to reference the chassis no. great bus!

My guess is June '61 off the Samba site. Does it have the twin tailights? Mine's March '61 with the twins.