72 Sierrayellow Westy

[Aircooler]

Small update...

From this:

To this:

I've blended the paint as good as possible! In my opinion it looks nice!!
Have a nice evening!
Cheers
Reto

 

[gninnam]

Great job :shock: 8)

 

[Aircooler]

Great job :shock: 8)

Hi Andy!
Thanks a lot! Hope I can also blend the rest of the bus like the back!
Best regards
Reto

 

[Lee C]

Excellent work!!!

 

[Aircooler]

Excellent work!!!

Thank you!!! Give my best!

 

[Aircooler]

Hi everybody!
I've got some parts from C&C this week. There was no chance to get this parts anywhere in Switzerland. :?

Got also some parts back from powder coating.

And finally I've cleaned up the insulation mats from the heater pipes.

Wish you all a nice weekend!
Reto

 

[Aircooler]

Got some parts back from chrom plating!

And finally my fuchs wheels got some new tyres!

My buddy walter organized some original porsche caps for me! Thanks a lot!

One big step forward was made with the paint blending. After many hours of grinding the bus got his final coat of sierra yellow!

From this:

To this:

I'm really happy with the result! arty0049:

Cheers
Reto

 

[*Sam*]

Nice work Rito the bus coming together nicely.
What is the next step for you ?

 

[gninnam]

Nice job with the prep and the paint :mrgreen:

 

[gvee]

Looking good 8)

 

[Aircooler]

Nice work Rito the bus coming together nicely.
What is the next step for you ?

Thank you!
Next step is to mound the sliding door. Then I had to weld some small patches in the engine area and paint this. After this, I will spend the next few month on the underside of the bus with detailing, painting and much more.
Hope the bus will be ready for next year!
Best regards
Reto

 

[Aircooler]

Nice job with the prep and the paint :mrgreen:

Thanks Andy!
It was a lot of work, but it was definitely worth it! The bus has now still a lot of the original sierra yellow. That's really cool!
Cheers
Reto

 

[Aircooler]

Looking good 8)

Thank you!

 

[Aircooler]

Hi everybody!
Hope you all had a great christmas time!?! Since my last post, I made some steps forward on my baywindow project. But all this details takes a lot of time and I'm not sure that I'm ready for next season... :lol: I will give my best!
So here some work I've made over the last few months...

The sliding door is finally mounted.

shiny!

Then I started to clean the engine bay. Under the gas tank were still some rusty areas. I cut them out and welded some new metal in.

Template for the left side

Template for the right side

Cut out some fresh metal

And finally welded in

The straps for the gas tank mounting I've made screwable. This because they were rusted and It's much easier to mount.

Underside...

Testfit the mounting straps

And with the freshly powder coated gas tank.

The holder for the air cleaner I've made also screwable. So it will be easy to install some 36 Webers on my engine later on!

After welding, I've grinded the whole engine bay. What a **** job!

Left side

Right side

And for the moment some 2K primer

The middle section of the header tube was rusted away. So I made out of 1mm steel plate my own tube. My steel roller is only 90cm long. The heater tube is around 1,2m, so I made 2 pieces and weld them together.
The final heater tube with some primer on

To mount the isolation mats easy, they all got a new zipper.

Next step was to cover the bus for the following work.

Then I've spent some time to strip the underside of the bus. Everything has to go off...

All parts on the ground and ready to clean, sandblast, zincing, powder coating and much more...

The original 14" steeles I've sandblasted and powder coated in black. For the moment I will store them in my garage. Perhaps the day will come, I will need them!

From Olaf I got some VDO-gauges for oil pressure and temperature. My idea is to install them in cans under or on the the top of the dashboard. We will see...

Wish you all the best for 2015!
Best regards
Reto

 

[gninnam]

Very nice work on the engine bay 8)

 

[Loxy]

Gauge mounting looks interesting! any newer pics?

 

[Aircooler]

Thanks guys! More pics will follow tonight or tomorrow morning. For the moment I'm in the garage!
Cheers
Reto

 

[mike202]

After welding, I've grinded the whole engine bay. What a **** job!

that made me chuckle!

Great van and good work. Love the idea for the gauges

 

[Aircooler]

After welding, I've grinded the whole engine bay. What a **** job!

that made me chuckle!

Great van and good work. Love the idea for the gauges

Me too! :lol:
Thank you, hope it will work as I had in my mind!
See you
Reto

 

[Aircooler]

Some more work is done...
I thought alot about how I could clean all screws, bolts, etc. from the underside of the bus. If you want to clean every single bolt separately, this will be an never ending story! So I took the easy way! :lol:

First step was to clean all stuff in the washing machine. If you have no machine, you could put the bolts, etc. in petrol for one or two nights.

Then I put all parts for two or three nights in descaler.

And after a good wash the screws, etc. looks like new! Here you can see what's happen with this stuff...

Screws and other parts...

Ready for some fresh zincing!

I made a visit at my buddy Walter. As always he's working on some interesting engines.

His new engine for next season. Will bring around 180-190hp on the dyno!

His race-bug...

And an other really cool engine build with lot of horsepower!

He has rebuild my steering box for me. Thanks Walter!

I spend two days of my holiday for sandblasting my suspension parts. Happy that I could do this work at my factory!

And my original beam is nearly ready to get some adjusters from csp.

Have you all a nice evening!
Reto