72 Dormobile resto on a budget!

krusty · Mar 17, 2011

Top quality work going on!
Wish I could weld as good as you, still another couple of years owning a aircooled truck will give me plenty of practice :lol:

bluenose · Mar 17, 2011

krusty said:
Top quality work going on!
Wish I could weld as good as you, still another couple of years owning a aircooled truck will give me plenty of practice :lol:

cheers dude there's much better welders on here than me though! Mines a bit skitz I have good days of it and bad days.

I find 99% of welding is grinding prep, I like having the power quite high to get good penetration and pulse weld everything less than 2mm thick works for me.

Mags · Apr 12, 2011

vertecal said:
bluenose said:

Time for an update after a few cold winter nights spent in my garage I've managed to take a few steps forward and several backwards;

lower inner front panel and end pieces ready to go;

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Good work!
Where did you get these end pieces from? I have just done the same job on my 69 and had to fab my own as I couldn't find anywhere that makes them.

D'oh! wish I'd known about those as well, I had to make up my own on the near side and just started on the offside, they look good.
Nice work, keep it up!

bluenose · Jun 28, 2011

I've lost all motivation to do this bus now so i'm breaking it sadly. I've got it on a body roller and can see now the rot just goes on forever and i'd rather spend the time with my kids. Maybe if i can recoup some dough then i'll get one with a not so rotten chassis!

I'm putting all parts up for sale on here before they go on ebay so any requests;

http://forum.earlybay.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=33258

gninnam · Jun 28, 2011

Sorry it ended like this for you - fingers crossed you can pick something up that doesn't require as much work (waiting for Graham L to join the thread

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bluenose · Jun 29, 2011

gninnam said:
Sorry it ended like this for you - fingers crossed you can pick something up that doesn't require as much work (waiting for Graham L to join the thread )

cheers mate, oddly the bodies not particuarly bad at all on it but the rot just seems to go on forever on the chassis, I think constant patches over rot by PO's are to blame for the death of this one. If nothing else i know exactly what to look for when i go after another bus! and how to recognise them dodgy repairs.