1968 Campervan conversion

[gninnam]

Excellent as usual :mrgreen:

Like the idea using the tubes to direct the water where you want it

 

[joaonar]

thanks gninnam....

it's not finished but I think it will work as planned and it will look okay at the end....

a few more:

after taking what I needed from the westy, I cuted it with a grinder :roll: ....

a couple of pictures:

I took all the mechanical parts from this very rusty bus. The front suspension was one of them. My idea is to use it to upgrade my 68 bus... kind of a second life in another bus.

bus there was a lot of very rusty screws and parts and therefore needed help to dismantle them completely:

a lot of rusty holes

... and as they had a lot of rust, I decided to try an electrolysis :mrgreen:

.... and it worked!

 

[joaonar]

some parts I had to disassemble and clean...

and this one, before taking it out from the westy and before being cleaned through electrolysis...

and after....

and these ones, after taking a bath in my electrolysis and muriatic acid:

... but the ones I really wanted to use were completely rusty:

 

[joaonar]

the westy brake discs before .....

and after....

and these ones were also waiting their turn....

 

[joaonar]

I then put the late callipers inside some plastic botles cuted in half with a lot of WD-40. I wanted to take them apart without braking the screws:

and after a few days I left them for some time inside my electrolysis bath. All the rust and dirt, started to peel from the surface:

you can see the difference between sides:

and after some cleaning they were still needing some more treatment :mrgreen:

 

[joaonar]

after a second cleaning I tried to remove the screws....

they were without any interior rust...

and once separated...

and the second one, still complete:

 

[mychatype3]

Here's some hard work going on.
Looking good .

Kind regards from the Netherlands
Mycha

 

[joaonar]

Thanks Mycha.. but hard and excellent work is what you're doing in your Bus.
:mrgreen:

more pictures of what I've done a couple years ago:

This part was also looking good:

I then closed it again and went back to my calipers.
I took them from the electrolysis and realized the "mud" that was falling from the calipers was peeling like old paint.

 

[joaonar]

I then started to remove the caliper inner pistons:

here're some pictures of them and without being properly cleaned..

 

[joaonar]

calipers inside were alright. No interior rust:

and from the other one:

 

[joaonar]

the pistons from the second one were also looking good....

.... despite this small detail:

and other parts to remove from the calipers. But they were so rusty and disformed... not an easy task to be done:

 

[joaonar]

some more parts that went through my electrolysis + muriatic acid process:

 

[joaonar]

I've tried to remove the bleeders from my calipers very softly... and with a lot of WD-40 for several days.
I tried....really :mrgreen:

... but it didn't work. So I broke them

and after this, I had to remove the rest that was left inside the calipers

 

[joaonar]

meanwhile I received this from Justkampers:

and from Ebay.de these ones:

 

[joaonar]

after a couple of days I managed to remove the litle pieces from the old bleeders left inside the calipers...

....and I used the new ones: sucess!
:lol:

and already in Portugal:

and...

2x

 

[joaonar]

with a very small srcrew driver....

... I removed the old inner seal:

Very dirty....

and some more cleaning with diluent and a good degreaser:

 

[joaonar]

and to end this, a final one before painting them:

... but first, some protection:

...and let's clean them :mrgreen: :

... half caliper was cleaned....

at the end:

more diluent and degreaser

 

[joaonar]

painting day:

I made 4 of them.
and with some spray can for High temperatures....

... I painted the calipers:

I then decided to clean the pistons interior:

and I ended painting them also....

 

[joaonar]

I cleaned the calipers with high pressure air:

and after I began assembling them:

... new inner seal....

... and then I stucked in the piston ....

(fist time in the wrong position: my first mistake 8) )

and because I didn't stuck them to the end, I thought the new seals weren't good to use....
(my second mistake :mrgreen: )

... and so at first, I didn't understand why there was this spring in the new reapir kit:

 

[joaonar]

but when I realized that the pistons had to be pressed till the bottom of the caliper, I understand the reason of their existence :mrgreen:

... half work was done :mrgreen: :