My first bay. My biggest project yet.

[USwesty]

After not touching my van for 8 months due to buying my first house which needed major work that I have had to do all the work myself. Having mostly done now and wanting to get my life back. Atleast I now have a very large garage and plenty of room to move around. Need to know how to get motivated again? I think tidying up my new garage and getting the van out may get me going again. Il post some pics up soon of how it's looking and what's left to do. I think maybe tackling the suspension rebuild and engine rebuild getting it drivable again do the trick! Is busfreez the next show?

 

[Lee C]

While you can get your new garage all painted out n organised, it'll make working on your bus easier n more enjoyable.

Welcome back by the way!!

 

[marco]

Glad you got your van storage sorted, nothing like neighbors to be helpful. Maybe invite a load of patina buses around for a meet :mrgreen:

 

[blacktruck]

wowzers,your work looks bitchin,to a broke rust sufferer this is ****o witha capital p

 

[USwesty]

Think making a new narrowed beam and fitting adjusters is a step in the right direction!

 

[Happystamps]

some excellent work going on there, love it I'm in the same boat as you atm, and working outside in the rain doesn't help! keep going dude!

 

[USwesty]

Its been a long time coming but the house is fairly finshed and my garage in usable and all set up now. I have left the bodywork for now but i treated myself to a fancy new welder and a 150l compressor as I am going to paint the van myself. I decided to make a start on building my beam and rebuilding the engine.

 

[Lee C]

Welcome back again!!
Good luck with painting your bus, if you get stuck with owt just giz a ring, I've painted a couple now :lol:

 

[USwesty]

The temporary wide 5 beam and Leon's wheels thanks again mate.

 

[USwesty]

My new garage and my vans New home.

 

[USwesty]

Fitting the beam adjusters and Spindles stripped ready for the transporterhaus treatment.

 

[USwesty]

Engine all stripped for a refresh. Need to blank up the egr take offs in the heads too.

 

[leon]

The temporary wide 5 beam and Leon's wheels thanks again mate.

You're welcome.
Thought you were narrowing the beam?

 

[Lee C]

Post up plenty engine pics!!!
I don't think I took enough, now I'm struggling to remember how mine goes back together !!!!

 

[USwesty]

I'll post some pics up Lee C if you want. Is it the tinware or the front cooling fan set up? Nice of you to offer your help I'm sure il need to ask you a dew questions.

 

[Lee C]

Yep front bit & order of tinware I'm a little :? With!!!

 

[USwesty]

Adjusters all ready to be welded ended up mounting the adjusters 6mm higher than original height.

 

[USwesty]

Here is a video I found on an old phone hoping it will be running again 2 year's to the day the video was done.

 

[DeeDeeTheBay]

New to this thread, Some very hard work has gone into this I can see!

How you getting on with it?

 

[AD4M]

Along time since you posted anything Al!!!

Here is a little teaser for everyone