my 68' bay

[68_early_bay]

Good customer service from heritage rang on the Monday afternoon then received the right wheel nuts wed first thing :mrgreen: so was able to get the bus back on its wheels :mrgreen:


Santa has been good to me this year 8)

Camplet Concorde with the extra awning 8)

Just managed to get it in tonight, hopefully when the snow has gone I can get it set up on the drive and give it a thorough clean 8)

:mrgreen:

 

[68_early_bay]

Picked up the side storage bracket this week so I can get my garage back go do some work :lol:

No it's out of the way I could make a start on fitting my autocraft engineering tow bar, temporally put it on, just needed to elongate a couple of the holes to match my chassis :mrgreen: at least it goes on with no probs with my hideaway vs zorst, even though it's tight :msn4:

Will re fit it properly once I've touched up the paint on the holes and will cover the bits where it is contact with the chassis with wax oil :mrgreen:

 

[68_early_bay]

Finished the to today 8) first thing I noticed that some of the bolts supplied with the kit were too short, a quick call to autocraft and they saw the problem and sent me out the correct ones the following day 8)

Now it's all bolted up one thing I have noticed is that the bumper now sits about 25mm further back than it used to, I can't blame the vs zorst for this as even if it wasn't fitted I wouldn't be able to move it back on the adjustment as the bracket is already nearly touching the removable valance , one thing for sure is that you would be very unlucky to bend it :lol: I've seen tow bars on 4x4's made out of thinner plate :lol:

I have also done the electrics, here's a few pics for you Paul on how I did it :mrgreen:

I used piggy back spades so that I didn't have to cut into my vans electrics 8)

And a dia off Google for the socket

8)

 

[68_early_bay]

Got snowed off and my new eezibleed turned up today so ....

Removed the little ball bearings from the mc so the new brake disks don't bind..

And then bled up..... No hiccups and got brakes so it must be my day :lol:

Next job look at fitting the sandwich plate and oil cooler 8)

 

[68_early_bay]

Made a start on moving the filter so I can fit the oil cooler and sandwich plate :mrgreen:

Just got to get the hose man to make me some hoses up now 8)

 

[68_early_bay]

Just picked up my 15's 8) thanks jake :mrgreen:

Also had my oil lines made up this morning too, one step closer 8)

 

[Myvanway]

Just picked up my 15's 8) thanks jake :mrgreen:

Also had my oil lines made up this morning too, one step closer 8)

Yes! 8)

Hubcaps or hardcore Shaun?!?! 8)

 

[68_early_bay]

Just picked up my 15's 8) thanks jake :mrgreen:

Also had my oil lines made up this morning too, one step closer 8)

Yes! 8)

Hubcaps or hardcore Shaun?!?! 8)

This is what I've just been thinking ive got to make my mind up before I have them powder coated as I've got to rivet the clips on, but I've got an idea for the hubcaps :msn4:

 

[gas1man]

Hard core, loose the clip's. :lol: :lol:
Amazing work , keep it up.

J & P

 

[68_early_bay]

Hard core, loose the clip's. :lol: :lol:

 

[68_early_bay]

Finished my oil cooler :mrgreen:

150 bar hydraulic hoses, shouldn't leak :lol:

I know one of my work tools will come in handy somewhere on the bus :lol:

Used my analyser temp probes to check how accurate my oil temp gauge is and see when my sandwich stat kicks in (temp above is on tick over in the garage, and I connected the probs on backwards the return isn't hotter than the flow lol)

Went on a good run to get it up to temp and the stat is pretty accurate opens up to the oil cooler at 84c going to be handy in summer with the camplet on the back 8)

 

[gvee]

Nice work as always, dude 8)

If it were me, I'd run without hubcaps to show off what's underneath
What colour are you going with the wheels? Quite fond of the colour they are now!

Might just be the picture angles (or me!) but those pipes look pretty exposed/close to the floor?

 

[gninnam]

Nice job but agree with G - look lower than the mustache bar?

 

[68_early_bay]

Nice work as always, dude 8)

If it were me, I'd run without hubcaps to show off what's underneath
What colour are you going with the wheels? Quite fond of the colour they are now!

Cheers dude 8) Think I'm starting to like the no hubcap look 8)


That's what I've been thinking about colour :? Was thinking white, but now you've said that I'm thinking what rims in comercial L345 or L249 would look like :msn4:

Might just be the picture angles (or me!) but those pipes look pretty exposed/close to the floor?

Does look a bit low there doesn't it :shock: but they're ok, but I'm going to clip them to the side of the engine support bar too 8)

 

[68_early_bay]

Nice job but agree with G - look lower than the mustache bar?

Going to clip them one either side of the bar like this

:mrgreen:

 

[gninnam]

Forgiven then

 

[68_early_bay]

Forgiven then

:lol:

 

[68_early_bay]

Finished early today so nipped to Newstead abbey with the kids 8)

:mrgreen:

 

[Myvanway]

8)

More news on wheels Shaun, colour etc?

No hubcaps with them brakes. 8) paint the rears.... sweet! :mrgreen:

 

[dazza1975]

Looking good as always!!!