61 SO23 westfalia

[Dibsy]

Fantastic, love your work mate !

[D-Train]

That's awesome. What's the plans for the heater then?

[Dutchy]

love it.. all the good gear and one cool interior.

[067DUB]

That's awesome. What's the plans for the heater then?

Always on the ball

[Cam Biscuit]

Not doing things by halves are we

Nice cupcar in the background too!

[woval56]

Been slowly plugging away on the rebuild, only can work on the bus every other week so I missed revolks this year.

Put the front red 9 puzzle together



Spent some time on positioning the brake booster


73-79 bay window booster and dual circuit master


Slight modification to the brake rod, cut n tapped




Because of the booster position, I had to do some extra bends on the new hard lines, booster fits in nice and snug, very happy with the final result.



Mounted a remote ressy from early bay behind front seat, I was planning on putting it where the og one mounted under the front floor, but then remembered how shit it was to fill up

Cable tied for now


Made a bracket for the front flexiline mount


Front end sorted




Rear brake lines finished off, a bit more creative bending



Rear brake with handbrake


Managed to remember to change the shift rod bushes before installing gearbox


Gear box in


Spacer for driveshaft


Rear end sorted

[Cam Biscuit]

Wow! Looking good mate

[woval56]

Made up some brackets and rubber mounted the 96 plate cooler and thermo fan, fan switches on when oil return from cooler exceeds 180degrees C



Testing the fan



Random pics, think I'll need to roll the lip to fit the wheels








Shifter arrived, yay

[kombi1976]

Wow! That is amazing.
How much of the rear suspension do you cut away, or don't you cut anything away, just bolt the new double A-arm onto the OG holes?

[NorCalRiviera]

Sweet jeebus, that's a sexy set up!!

[GottaSplit]

Lovin' this read....

[woval56]

No cutting at all needed, bolts up to og spring plate, shock mounts and frame horns that's it. The fact that I don't need to cut or weld anything is why I choose to go this way instead of the other options.

So far I've managed to utilise all original holes except for the oil lines and booster line through the cross members.

Cheers
Andy

[morts]

Looking good Andy.....

[woval56]

Thanks for all the positive comments, does wonders for the motivation,

Here's the rest of the oil cooler install, when I was researching what to do I couldn't find many photos of installs, so here is what I did for reference.
Full flow set up
engine-filter-bypass valve-cooler-thermo fan switch-back through bypass-engine

Can anyone recommend a filter? I think it needs to be high pressure as it is directly after the oil pump
I can't seem to get Fram filters in adelaide.

[woval56]

Bit of a clearance issue with the rear arch lip,

205/50/17





Installed shifter, here's the red9 steering column ,


Handbrake ends arrived from red9 in UK, thanks to Das Resto for chasing them up so quick , to be installed tomorrow