monkey_boy wrote:On the road next week then!?

Couple of months.

We are awaiting on the birth certificate at the moment so there is no point rushing anything until it's here.....

Amazing work. Look forward to updates.

BlastingDiePast wrote:

henk wrote:are both your seats mounted to the floor with those hooks or is the driver side with sliders?
nice work by the way.

henk!!!

The passenger seat is bar and hook the drivers seat slides on adjusters pre 63 buses have fixed seats both sides.

ok,like that.
thank you.
i am busy to replace the floor in my walktrough as well,there is not as half the work like yours but i give my headaches all ready.

henk!!!

So 3-2-1 go

Repaired/replaced the spare wheel section as it was no longer needed.



Repaired the support frame lower sections





Adjusted the new inner D post to fit the old, just need to fab up some outer sections for the lower bits.

On the chassis it go's



Chuck on the rear wheel tubs



Put on the support frames etc






Rear corner work



Side panel work





And the rear of the year.

Not seen this thread for ages great to see progress

hallo,

i send you a PM for those walktrough seat base.

henk!!!

No words !!!!




Ya got some amazing skills bro



love the updates bro


keep them coming


Mark

WOW!!

You've got mad skills!! Can't believe from were you've started and were you are now

Keep up the fantastic work

Back on the old girl!

Hours/days have been spent removing the old sections and blasting each panel that we are going to reuse.

Still lots to do!









The dash section is now fully welded in to the A post's, the A post are panel pinned in at the bottom and top so we can adjust where needed, the B posts are pinned in to the seat back sections (which are fully welded in).





The front bib or air vent section has been cleaned up and is now welded to the autocraft full windscreen section (this will be modified later so it fits correctly).





And the rear tailgate is put in place so we can set the gap.




The gutter which we made a few months ago is now on the bus...

DAM

there is some serious work going into this bus


Well done


Mark

....the art of the possible....
pushing the boundaries....

Drilled a few holes



Put a couple of panels on





Most are lining up ok.

A simple jet annoying problem, B post is too long



Drivers side panels all fitted up, nice to get the door on.



Gap lines are ok but need more work



Here's the more work bit....
Notice the A post is not welded to the inner valance and it is only pinned at the top, this shows just how much adjustment is needed with new panels.


Rear corner work.

Interesting....
I am waiting for Dave n Matt to continue my roof and front panel alignment to enjoy such questions. .
LOL
G...

Slowly making progress, problems with using three different makes of panels and OG stuff means a lot of building, checking, stripping, building etc

So the join panel above the A and B post under the gutter is in both sides, A posts are in and the inner section of both B posts.

The outer sections of the B post are welded together so we can now fit the cargo door.



New panel old door fitment issues







Sill to B post fitment issue



After over coming the issues everything gets test fitted up.







Lots still to do but its getting there slowly.

Good work and nice to see you explain what the issues are...Tolerances...tooling ...what was copied etc..

Really going to be a nice shell!
G