'70 sunroof deluxe - WORK IN PROGRESS

[mIKe cAIn]

ive been a member on here before but lost all my login info etc.

heres my bus anyway

the release bearing kicked at santa pod so on a lowloader it went

its been in the wars over the past year, firstly someone hit the front panel and drove off while it was parked and i reverced it into a tree stump twice so i started poking anad what was a front clip and a rear quarter has turned into a bit more, not to worry, its all solid now and just in the final prep stages and shoud be ready for paint soon

 

[Guest]

mike what was your original username?

 

[mIKe cAIn]

i dont have a clue man! ha

 

[Guest]

cant help then, sorry mate

 

[mIKe cAIn]

'twas wirraldubs, just found an old post

 

[mIKe cAIn]

more pics of the work

seat belt points gone - cut out

dropped the van - oopss (lucky no damage. damn shit stands)

lick of paint when patched up

front panel bashed in

lower section cut off

lower panel offered up

bit ay grinding

final bits of filler

finished panel

just discovered this tonight after removing window

 

[Gadget Boy]

Nice and i bet thats going to be difficult to repair too

 

[mIKe cAIn]

i was going to patch it but decided just to get a panel from schofields which i collected. i cut the panel away to fit and offered up the new section and it's not right, seems that this new panel has a 45deg press rather than a 90deg and the door wouldnt close so looks like it needs to be cut, and hammered into shape, so more messing about and welding i was going to finish it but went to deva in the bug instead

 

[mIKe cAIn]

got this done tonight, would have finished it but ran out of wire!

 

[mIKe cAIn]

finished it, now onto a small patch

*ohh hang on need to put the track cover holder thing on too *

 

[mIKe cAIn]

thats outta the way now onto the rest of it

just scored a unit with space for 30+ cars fully equiped workshop for cheap :mrgreen:

 

[mIKe cAIn]

Now i have the van in a workshop/unit/'the cave' which i found in the local paper, it was a mot repair place but its become vacant and i've moved in for a month!

Its not a bad place, the van just about got in there as its down a narrow alley way. The 'cave' is full of tools, everything i could posibly need so saves me from taking all mine down there, theres a huge compressor and a car lift, so a great find all in all.

Got the van i there on saturday afternoon and started to stip it, everything is off the van and labelled up and out of the way. the motor is out and gearbox, all engine bay electrics, dash is out, seats, all trim inside and out so its ready to rub down.

This is the first time i've ever done a sort of mini resto on a car so its all new to me, paint should be interesting. im going to do it in the same comercial blue as i have the paint already. heres some pics

the workshop

big compressor

just got the van in

strip down

So ready to start rubbing back now, oh waht fun :twisted:

 

[combideluxe1969]

good job man :wink:

 

[mIKe cAIn]

any advice on how to go about rubbing back, primer, paint would be good. I have 8 litres of comercial blue celly and 5 litres of grey celly primer and a gravity feed gun. also heve 2 lots of thinners! standard and anti-bloom whats the difference? do they go off diferently?

 

[mIKe cAIn]

sand blasted inside the moonies,

BEFORE:

AFTER:

got to sort those little holes out next

 

[mIKe cAIn]

got a bit more done today, decided to attack the sunroof, well the drains anyway as they were blocked. ive tried 4 times previously to do this in 3 years using all the wire coat hanges up in the house! in the end i saw some old copper brake line hanging up so i cut a length and proceeded to prod away at leisure, then i got the drill out and raised the van on the lifter so i could have enough room to put the drill on and have enough copper line to get to the top of the drain, this worked a treat! then when they were clear i blew them out with the compressor and lined the existing drains with flexi hose i found lying about, snug fit too.

when i got to the drivers b pillar the existing drain crumbled and rank stale water came out... not good! in the end i managed to get the drain at the top (bit where it bends to go into the pillar) off with a drill and fed the flex hose down the van behind where the panel cover goes, drilled the b pillar from the inside and fed the flexi down to the bottom of the drain. works a treat, some pics (sorry about the quailty)

glad thats over with :wink:

 

[TexasAirCooler]

Do you have 2 drains in the very back also? A total of 6.

 

[mIKe cAIn]

yeah a total of 6, the ones at the back were clear! still blew them out with the air line

 

[TexasAirCooler]

Would it be possible for you to post a pic of the other side of this area. Looking from the sunroof hole into the drain close enough to have some detail to it?

I have a '70 bay that was once a popup but the fiberglass part is rotted out and the PO started to make it a sunroof but didn't know about the drains. Mine, not being a sunroof to begin with doesn't have the fittings to connect the hoses onto. If I could get an idea what they looked like I might be able to make some.

Thanks

 

[mIKe cAIn]

sure, can do that its basically a big gutter all around the sunroof opening with pipes that come off it for drainage. pics will show things better tha my crap description!