58 mingo mango

[braddick]

Making a start on the interior
Not sure if I’m upto that part but I thought I’d get some vagazall on the bus

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[braddick]

Finished off the other cargo door
Also been installing a bit of sound deadening as well
Might have a crack at some cargo door rubbers as well
Also got the next piece in the clamp trying to flatten it off, from many yrs of moisture and heat buckling it up
Heat gun seems to be working at this stage, next option is give it a bath in water and let it dry with weight on it

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[vanell]

Looking good mate, better get Champs fired up on the engine, you might have to get him to move you up the list the way you are going

[1958kafer]

Finished off the other cargo door
Also been installing a bit of sound deadening as well
Might have a crack at some cargo door rubbers as well
Also got the next piece in the clamp trying to flatten it off, from many yrs of moisture and heat buckling it up
Heat gun seems to be working at this stage, next option is give it a bath in water and let it dry with weight on it
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I had the same problem with the ovals door cards. I ended up soaking them on a concrete slab then placed a nice big timber board on top with lots of weights on top of that. I left them like that for a couple of weeks. They turned out perfect.

[Cheeseboard]

Looking good mate, better get Champs fired up on the engine, you might have to get him to move you up the list the way you are going

I’ve seen the whiteboard up on the wall of Champs dust free engine building room. There’s all these names in blue whiteboard texta under Brads name which is written in permanent marker.

[splitthis]

Looking good mate, better get Champs fired up on the engine, you might have to get him to move you up the list the way you are going

I know a guy on the list who can be bribed to drop a spot.

[morts]

A great bus in great hands - you're killing it Brad!

[animal]

Looking good mate..

[braddick]

New rubbers and old cards going back on

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[Kombiiknut]

Looking good, gonna be one cool bus

[067DUB]

Piecing together real nice !

[braddick]

Robbing Peter to pay Paul
Removed my lower bulkhead rubber Matt in the 63 to put in the mango
The one thing that is not on the repro list plus og is always better
Not a lot gets seen in the 63 with camping interior

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Had a few tears in it but on a whole pretty dam good these are normally toast in old buses, but my 63 has og floor and prob never been off the rd for long was still nice and flexible
Wasn’t till I removed it remembered that the spare tyre bit in the bulkhead is slightly different and the rubber needed too slightly stretch a bit to fit the 58 mango

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[warb]

great option.

[splitthis]

fuck yeah, impossible to find in decent condition.

[Beatts]

This is one great bus, can’t wait to see this flying down the road.

You know it won’t be as quiet as your 63 with all those bullet holes whistling in the breeze.