My Late 71 camper! drop zone

got out there today cut the rear corners out and cleaned up some of the rust now have to put it all back . May work a lil more on it tom. who knows i cant wait to drive it but every time i get more and more complicated. i have a 2.0 and a 1700 pancake the 2.0 has complete heads and case not anything else the 1700 has everything but ive been told the main bearings are shot i dunno so now decided to do the subaru swap or which ever motor i run across that kennedy sells the adapter for well heres a few pics.
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Just run a upright 1600 or a 1776. It will save you a lot of headache in the long run.

The work look great BTW.

Sat this bus the other day with the new corners being formed.
It will be great when done.
Really was looking good.
KC

finally figured out what tail lights im using and have done a ll more cutting think the tail light are from a 99 caddilac i know caddy but not year got them from a1 on 49 in jones county they have a great selection awesome prices but no vw's [img][/img]

any one who has ever had a bus knows that the air ducts on rear side that i removed bring air in but what is the tube thing that is behind them? i had to cut mine out to get the tail lights to cut in i have spent near a ton of time on these lights but all great things take time. they llok like something to cool gas but dont know? do i need them if going with a eletric fuel pump or will they be replaced with a inline fuel filter?

Those tubes are Part of the fuel tank vent system and chatcoal emissions canister do not disturb and make sure all hoses going to fuel tank are repladed before you close up fuel tank area.otherwise you will smell fuel forever

Yea and you will be like driving down the road!

will do i will have to carefully take some off one of the other buses we have cause i have already ground all in to them not repairable . but yes every brakeline hose and most of the wiring will be replaced hoping to have it at a show this year but at the rate im going it will be 2014 but hopefully ill make it to atlanta motor speed way

Chris, I'm impressed so far...hopefully I'll get to see it more if I can start coming back out there. Nice work though

the tail lights will be cool it will smooth the back off

Doodle, they look pretty sweet. I was over there Friday working in the shop for a bit and Chris showed me the Chrome in them...once he gets them opened up just right where it'll flush down it's look good. He's already working on the sheet metal for the smoothed lower section with no lights and man it's impressive.

that chrome piece goes to the other side . i finished with the left side now got to finsh cutting the right side out a lil more hopefully the whole left side will be finish sat.

im throwing my pile of scrap metal into a pile under the bus to represent me throwing away the sin in my life when its all done there should be a monsterious mound!!! if they equal up!!

bayboy87 wrote:that chrome piece goes to the other side . i finished with the left side now got to finsh cutting the right side out a lil more hopefully the whole left side will be finish sat.

I see that, I held it up to the wrong one for the picture....sorry LOL

bayboy87 wrote:im throwing my pile of scrap metal into a pile under the bus to represent me throwing away the sin in my life when its all done there should be a monsterious mound!!! if they equal up!!

That's going to sound corny to some people, but it's a very liberating thing to do. I had my pile when I worked on the Squareback. We've all done it and it's pretty awesome when you look at that pile on the ground, throw it out, realize where you are as opposed to where you've been, and even more so where you're heading. I'm proud of you man, great steps, great steps!!!

lol yeaa if it makes me corny guess im corny haha. found me a link pin beam its missing spindles but in 2 weeks tim baker suppossed to have me some spindles then we can throw my front beam under your bus 1 weekend john said we would work something out on it

[img][/img] still working on my bus but with the holidays sometimes cant get the scheldule together to go to other shop. so i needed something for my shop got it for a good deal just needs some work nicknamed frog

[img][/img] got them yesterday from a guy close by they are 14s going on my rail .With the holidays around havent had much time to work on the bus but have the dunebuggy at my shop so i try and do aa lil bit each night hoing to have it going by jan. since it will probaly be what i take to the sows this year

steadily working on the buggy . got seats today for it. going saturday to get a early 60's split dont know much about it will post pics when i get it. been told its a rust bucket but most things i been getting are . hopefully i can use the front end or at least the window frames. [img][/img]

did some more work on my bus saturday got the left side welded uptailight fitted and installed still have to cut the corners off of the pieces i welded in to put some 40s model rear quarters on and of course do the bondo! got air ride parts trying to find the right thru rods to use but evryone keeps telling me that they are for off road use only....... got the plates being cut here is the template i am using 5.5 beam raise[img][/img]

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been doing lil bits and pieces to bus with the 7 day overhaul coming up wont get to much done but i have been just collecting parts for it hope fully the back end will be 100% done by then not liking much more..... grabbed this 62 front end im gonna try and incorporate into the front thought id share my find un cut dash wish i could preserve it[img][/img]
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after work met someone over at shop to look at bus got off early and worked on bus [url=]
this is my plan for the corners put a few tacks in it like that and rip'd it off would be too low so ill trim the corners and move it up to the line please flip picture thanks
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would have that rolled design all the way across the back end and have mufflers sitting there pressed against the ground getting ready to slam back out soon as thats complete! then after that maybe i can slide the front up to doodle to get set up.

this is franz later bay off kcw slammed in front with a 5.5 beam raise with stock spindles im running flipped spindles. cant wait to get back on it