niko's 61 microbus

kombi niko · Post by **kombi niko** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 7:30 pm

not much to report apart from weeks of sanding, filler, blocking, feeling with my hand, swearing, and redoing it all over again a million times!! Anyone thinks they can do body work on a bus in a few weeks is dreaming. On to the cargo doors and then the front doors and will take a few more weeks

kombi niko · Post by **kombi niko** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:46 am

few more pics of the body, in guide coat now ready for final block back. On to the front beams one will be a stock and another from a mate is a 2" raised 2" narrowed one.

spl65t · Post by **spl65t** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 8:30 am

You've hammered this project. Well done. Some nice touches to make this your biatch
Linz

kombi niko · Post by **kombi niko** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 8:10 pm

beam clean up and paint

cut up the second beam, this will be the custom version

kombi niko · Post by **kombi niko** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 8:11 pm

spl65t wrote:You've hammered this project. Well done. Some nice touches to make this your biatch
Linz

thanks mate, trying hard to get her done

red hot bus · Post by **red hot bus** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 8:57 pm

Looking good Niko, what are the plans air beam? I'm thinking about making one for my DC, got it all planed in my head haha. whats with the other beam put it in for rego then swap them over?

bish · Post by **bish** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 5:52 am

Your doing some killer work there.clean as .

kombi niko · Post by **kombi niko** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:04 am

red hot bus wrote:Looking good Niko, what are the plans air beam? I'm thinking about making one for my DC, got it all planed in my head haha. whats with the other beam put it in for rego then swap them over?

Not sure on the air beam yet need to talk to the engineer about it first. The second one is a 2" raised and narrowed one just to run around on before I bag it.

kombi niko · Post by **kombi niko** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:02 pm

10mm Steel for the side plates, was going to get them laser cut but thought bugger it I'll make them instead. I played with the template raising the tubes 2".

Chopped out the shape with a 5" grinder then used a metal hole saw for the tube holes. Both side plates are tacked together to unsure accuracy.

test fit

tigwelded

added brace

bleiner · Post by **bleiner** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:16 pm

Love your work mate!!! As always!!!

kombi niko · Post by **kombi niko** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:25 pm

cheers mate, here's the seat pics, was damned if I was going to spend big bucks on rusty frames so here's the progress so far.
22.2mm tube

chopped up a bay frame for the back rest

test fit of both frames

making the springs fit

tatvw · Post by **tatvw** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:49 am

What a build, quality work ur doing, have you looked at the type of bags your going to use? N that seats killer...

kombi niko · Post by **kombi niko** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 6:23 pm

thanks mate, was looking at the firestones, not sure on what system yet.

kombi niko · Post by **kombi niko** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:15 pm

fitting the springs

Ready for the good stuff

MID WEST DUBBER · Post by **MID WEST DUBBER** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:39 pm

Great work! That's coming along very nicely

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