Marz's 65 11 window

marz · Post by **marz** » Thu May 01, 2014 12:52 pm

Not much progress as Ive been working on a microsquirt efi conversion on my bay. Did manage to get the nose fettled and change a frozen main shaft bearing in the box for the straight axle.
Nose

Gearbox

marz · Post by **marz** » Mon May 19, 2014 10:29 am

Hey, not sure if you guys are interested but I've been getting some things done, got the running gear pulled and got a bit carried away and built some rotisserie rings so I can paint the chassis here a few pics
Running gear stripped

Made up some rings

Rolled her over

kombi niko · Post by **kombi niko** » Mon May 19, 2014 10:49 pm

hollycrap now that's a shed, so much room

splitbus · Post by **splitbus** » Tue May 20, 2014 5:37 am

Cool, coming along nicely, was the main shaft bearing hard to remove, what did you use to remove it?

marz · Post by **marz** » Tue May 20, 2014 1:05 pm

Split bus I pressed them off, but they would have just tapped out only the ball bearing were seized not the bearing to the shaft or anything.
Niko the stresses of running a foundry are out weighed by the cool shit that we have and the big ware house.
Got the chassis pressure washed, got a hundred little holes to weld up before paint. also got the axle tubes extended and the spring plates cut for straight axle .

marz · Post by **marz** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 5:01 pm

Happy to say the welding is pretty much finished, for the chassis anyway. Hopefully will be painted in the next few weeks here's couple of pics of the jack point,went down the tight arse path and fixed the old ones again not "factory" but solid. also took porta power to the next level and pushed the corner back into shape with a hydraulic ram.

marz · Post by **marz** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 8:07 am

Hey, Got the chassis painted in some industiral Dulux druabild ste thick masticy goodness. Got to paint a few suspension parts and wait for a cip1 order to arrive and it should be rolling again by the end of july!.

beerdoc · Post by **beerdoc** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 9:39 pm

Nice work Marz will pop in next time im past

marz · Post by **marz** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 5:17 pm

Hey doc, swing by some time. She's rolling now, about due for an update. Plan is to have it regoed for revolks!

marz · Post by **marz** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 7:49 am

Hey, Well thought it might be time to do a bit of an update, been a while. Took some time off to respray my boat which as always took way longer then planned but been back on the bus and its now rolling. straight axle in the back and the ball joint boosted disk brake beam in !. Going to push hard to have it regoed for summer. here's a few pics
My Boat with the bus rolling wide five drums sitting on the disk brake stubs

New disks and calipers rebuilt

New tyres 185/65 on the bay rims

The list of jobs is getting smaller.....

LOWK71 · Post by **LOWK71** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 11:42 am

This is looking really good Marz's, keep the up dates coming I am really enjoying your thread.

marz · Post by **marz** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 6:34 am

Thanks Lowk71,
I got the engine bay in paint. I used northane enamel pearl white was a close enough match for this project. Had a package arrive this morning so got my master cylinder to finish of the brake system. should have brakes and engine by the weekend!. not quite Roadworthy for day of.....

Ampdub · Post by **Ampdub** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 4:22 pm

marz wrote:Hey, Well thought it might be time to do a bit of an update, been a while. Took some time off to respray my boat which as always took way longer then planned but been back on the bus and its now rolling. straight axle in the back and the ball joint boosted disk brake beam in !. Going to push hard to have it regoed for summer. here's a few pics
My Boat with the bus rolling wide five drums sitting on the disk brake stubs

New disks and calipers rebuilt

New tyres 185/65 on the bay rims

The list of jobs is getting smaller.....

How is your front done on this? I think it is a 68 beam but do you have adjusters or standard? any drop spindles?

I have a 68 beam and all the part but don't want to go too high and yours looks alright

marz · Post by **marz** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:52 pm

Yeah it's early bay beam, with adjusters and leaf stiffeners. Probably will be a bit higher than that on the road

marz · Post by **marz** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:23 pm

Hey,
Long time no update, and guess what? still not on the road. Progress was slow over summer, but have slowly being doing stuff. Finally got all the last few bits of welding done and started to paint the repairs and put some fresh rubbers in. Pretty nice putting nice fresh stuff together. Iv'e had the car running for a few months and cruising around the industrial streets. and deicided with just adjusters in the front its to low to match the straight axle and wont be nice to drive daily. So I've had a change of plan and I'm going back up and going to fit RGB's for the time being. Also going to get a set of allterain tyres so I can go camping ect. Been spending abit of time on the Samba big meat tyres thread so I'l put a puck up of my current insperation stock hight with 215 75 R15 BFG AT's
Anyone want to trade a straight axle set up for a Big nut box ?.
window repair section I made

Fettled and primed

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