So due to (un)popular demand it's time to update!
Since the last installment we have all been bloody busy on this!
Once the bus was in primer I had a quite small but large list to do. I had to flat the roof down, clean, sand, seal the inside of the bus, clean up the engine bay and finally swap the rear end from wide to narrow 5. I am sure there were loads of other things but at the moment I cannot remember! So I got about sanding the roof down. Some of it came off really easy other bits were a pain in the ass. After spending a couple of evenings doing it and getting it what I thought was flat....it wasn't...so in the end I ended up more or less taking the hole thing back to metal.
After what felt like a week of sanding I etch primed the hole thing.
After again sanding and wire brushing I rust treated everywhere inside.
Ronnie was back round to flat the bus down for hopefully the last time! Then it was my job to find all the lil pin-holes so I circled them! I quite liked the bubble look to be honest.
In the week it was time to swap over the rear hubs etc. Off came everything and on went new shocks, drums, backing plates etc. Along with new torsion bar rubbers, my existing spring plates and hubs and spindles obtained from MattP. Then the narrow 5 wheels I had picked up bloody ages ago :lol:
Really happy with how the underside looks
I need to touch up a few of the areas in black with a brush but otherwise it looks so nice and clean! One thing, I found some new shock bolts but I couldn't find any new hub nuts and bolts. Anyone any ideas where to get them from? Thinking about it, I cannot remember looking on Heritage etc now :?
I still have the front beam to paint but that won't take long and then the underside is finished with!
After that there was a rare day when I could help Ronnie do something! So off I went to help him with his engine in his bay window. Then I went down for a couple of days to Whitstable where my girlfriends brother has a house after working a 100 hour week! And I went to see this.
Lovely isn't it.
On the Tuesday it was my birthday
arty0003: And I got a lovely new CSP shifter for the bus
(isn't in yet though!)
Now obviously we knew what was coming up, you lot didn't obviously :lol: But Friday of that week it was time to paint! So I had Tuesday (when home) until Friday 5pm to get the inside cleaned up further and floor painted and generally the entire bus ready to go in a paint booth. Looking back on it, I know we were doing 8ams-midnights but considering we have never done any of this before I am really impressed we made it.
First up was cleaning over the engine bay and the cab floor. Also sanding down the cargo floor a tad to key ready for paint.
*Phone Call*
Ah, the sofa man is going to be early! I've got to tidy up so I'll have to finish this later
Gutted really, was looking forward to posting the pictures of the bus all painted and back home. Oh well, you'll have to wait a little longer
