Ratty Split Mission.....Custom Interior
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more pics of the front end work
more pics of the front end work
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- lock screws now in place and excess spring pack ground off
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- drilling the spring pack for the new location of the lock screw
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- before drilling the spring pack I drilled out an old lock from the centre locator, this prevented the threads in the trailing arm from getting damaged
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- after securing the pack in place I removed the lock to the trailing arm and tapped it in to the new narrowed location, this exposed the extra spring pack to be removed
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- After the pack was installed, locked it in position to prevent it moving anywhere
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- this pic gives a great pespective of the amount narrowed, this is where the arm used to live
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- the spring pack knocked in to it's original location, note the drilling in the pack is alligned for the lock screw
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- To ensure the inner bush is tapped into the right place I marked the tool with the required depth
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- here's a tool I knocked up to tap in the inner bush, made from 3 washers 1 bolt and a piece of round bar, this could also be used to remove the bushes with a slide hammer attachment, note the edges are ground flat to allow the tool to be fed through the b
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- measuring the tool against the trailing arm to work out the correct depth for the inner bush
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progress report
got into work at 5:30 this morning, sanblasted the remainder of the front end bits and gave them a lick of jam, I still can't get over how much of this car is still genuine bits including the hub seals, the original felt style seals
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- original brake drums
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- vw tie rod ends
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- raedy for final assembly, hopefully get the ront end back in this weekend
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- time for a coat of jam
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front end fit up
Started to fit the front end back in today, here's a few pics
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- not off the jack stands yet....may no get the jack out when the time comes
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- for all the work put in it's nice to see it going back on but still a lot to set up
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Setting up the rear end
Not taking the regular approach to the rear end here, want is stupidly low with out huge negative camber and not interested in IRS just yet, I am in the process of re-designing the spring plates, flipping the RGB's running a sealed rgb set up, pros are using all the original running gear, cons, I know it's a big pain when changing a tyre and it's going to be a pain to set up but I love a challenge, took some measrements today and with a 10 inch drop there is still 1 - 2 inches of head room for the tyres I'm running and a slight negative camber on the axles.....sweet, more pics coming soon.
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- setting up the back end
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Classic thing about the tarp is that this bus has been in the rain for ever, I only have the tarp on so peeps won't spot it from the street at a glance, as for the bus wishing it had never been found by me, I bet the only part of the bus wondering what the hell is going down would be the steering box, if it could talk it would be like " Hey you aren't going do drive me around like this ...... NOOOOO " haha eat tarmac steering box leave your markSplitPersonality wrote:Sled bus! looking damn sweet even still tucked up beneath that tarp man..
Fresh approach to the back end too flipping what is already there, will be low and slow
Poor bus prob wishes it was never found by you
At this height the steering box is about 5mm off the deck