niko's 61 microbus

[kombi niko]

you should have fun its a little different than surfing, more off the front foot than the back. Watch your wrists when you fall try and keep the board on edge not flat.

[kombi niko]

Back from the snow and on to the build once more, Couldn't find a inner stiffener for the roof so i cut a section of rhs in half and welded that in to the gutter. next will be the final roof section.

[kombi niko]

Clamped on the roof section after drilling a thousand spot weld holes and got her in. Thought I get more warpage from the heat from such a long panel but all was good and the finished roof is done.

[splitbus]

Well done mate, looks great

[Dibsy]

Great work, good to see you cracking on with it.

[Cam Biscuit]

That is one stiff gutter section Niko!

Nice to be getting stuck back into it?!

[bleiner]

Looks great champ! Very neat work!!!

Take us through what else needs to be done? (Cutting/welding wise)

[kombi niko]

oh yes Cam, don't think this bus will be flexing any time soon with that roof stiffener welded in.
I'm now moving to the front of the bus fitting the nose, inner valance, side doglegs then its on the the cargo doors and then front doors. Heaps of rust repairs to do on the bottom of the cargo doors and front lower hinges too.

[kombi niko]

Started on the front rails, got them ready for the valance.


Cut out the old rusty bottom A-pillers making sure heaps of attention was payed to the position of them.

Trial fit tacked in place having a good hard look at the doors and doglegs now to make sure panel gaps are right.

[kombi niko]

On to the floor a few shots of welding the new section down, always takes longer than you think!!

[kombi niko]

Thought I would work on the doors for a change, gave them a bead blast a little primer and starting cutting out the rusty bottoms, the inner lower hinge stiffener was shot so I fabed up a new section.

[kombi niko]

new section ready for welding in and on to the tricky hinge placement, was going to use pins and press them in but decided on bolts in case I need more adjusting later.



All painted in primer on to the other door, im running out of room on photobucket for my pics does any one know of another pic media storage I can use?

[kombi niko]

Nose job time, primed and topcoat epoxyed valance.



Nice match up of the vee shape after tacking in place

Primer and on to the side folds

[kombi niko]

Dog leg time, I ended up getting the wolf berg west ones from the states as they were the thick lip versions and not mega pricey, fitment was 8 out of 10 on the easy scale.
I used a few bits of flat bar to keep the gaps right and tacked it in place.



Other side done also had to mod the front door front hinge gap as it was massive!! I added a rolled section to it to get the gap back to a 5mm range.





got the gaps after heaps of torture bending the hinges!! and yes im giving the finger to those devil doors

[bleiner]

This is better than porn!!