Great stuff, keep going nearly there!

Fair play - you are really cracking on with this - you seem to achieve a lot every post! Good Skills!

You are absolutely killing it on this thing! Love it!

Just read that all from start to finish.
WOW awesome job keep up the good work and keep the pics coming.

Cheers, Lee.

Cheers fellas, bit more progress tonight .. Went out with the intention of sorting this lot out as I can't find anything at the mo !


But got side tracked and welded new door seal bottom lips on the drivers side then decided to get the door to fit properly , bit of a task as it seems to have got a bit warped in the de skin / re skin. Anyway managed to get it sorted and stripped the old door lock off what was left of the inner part, it's in a bit of a mess and had to be drilled out with some new captive buts welded on the back





Got it cleaned up and wd40 got it Moving again come to fit it and realised I really shouldn't have used a later door to put the skin on as the lock is totally different ! Bit of bashing, fettling and re drilling some holes and it's kind of ok now, I still need to extend the hole where the catch protrudes as it's rubbing slightly. Then got into sorting this mess out, I've been dreading this ever since I did the other side !


Welded on a new thread for the bottom of the quarter light as both of these had rotted


Bashed out all the old rubber which took ages . New seals all round (which took even longer !!) and re fitted the door top, this caused me a whole load more pain in getting the door to close but with a lot of bending and adjusting its now closing quite nicely and has all the glass in ! Just need to get the door card fitted and that's sorted. Hopefully onto the master cylinder/ brake pedal and gear stick tomorrow which pretty much means the cab is finished





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Another few jobs sorted tonight, windscreens in

Also got wipers fitted , wiper motor has never worked so took it out and found the spring that holds the brushes on the rotor had snapped. After putting one on and it smoking I realised this goes straight across the pos and neg so needs to be isolated, made a piece up out of some hard plastic and it sprung into life


Then onto one of the pop outs, I originally wanted to keep the shot out glass but it has no strength so I picked up a set of pop outs in reasonable condition, now it would have been nice and easy to just put these on but no chance. The originals aren't too bad and match the bus nicely although there was a lot of rubber to chisel out !


So stripped the glass out of one of these

Drilled out the almost invisible screws from the original

Lots of chiselling and some new rubbers, decided to weld them back together as it was in no state to accept new screws and I guess that the rubbers will outlast the frames.
All fitted , that took 3 hours and I've got 5 more to do !


Job list now is

Cargo floor
Brakes and master cylinder
Gear stick
Grease everything
Wire regulator
Get a set of tyres

I'm now thinking two weeks to mot all being well !


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how are you going to protect the van from the UK weather? Ankor Wax or something? or just leave it?

Ankor wax it all over and it is kept inside most of the year, underside is / will be painted with por 15 so hopefully shouldn't be too bad


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And the brake rebuild is under way






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Anyone know which brake lines should plumb to where on the master cylinder ?


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This any help?

http://www.csp-shop.de/technik/pdf/deeng/14381.pdf

G

Perfect thanks !


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Hi Fergy.

I just noticed your post re the pop outs.

I did a similar thing a long while back, and they leaked !

I hope I have caught you before you have progressed onto the other frames. Yes they take an age but if they are rusty it doesn't matter how good an new the seals are. if the edges of the frames a rough , they won't seal !

now , I'm not suggesting you follow my example. at the time it suited me, and it keeps the water out.

now days you can buy a compelte set of frames and seals for £45, pop some of your "potion" on and save having a leaking bus adn keep the look.

here's my rebuild of my rebuilt pop outs and how to check if they leak.

Jason

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Nice one ta, I didn't consider the mastic option although when building them I did think these aren't going to be quite water tight. I will go and chuck some water over them later and see what the damage is ! I may just have to live with some leaks on the ones I have already done for this year as time / funds are both tight. What mastic did you use in the end ?


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I think I probably used a no nonsense available at screwing.i didn't go and choose a particular one just one that was solvent free if I remember correctly.

Speaking as someone with experience of a leaking bus I would definitely recommend you get it sorted.

Yes it's a going to be time but cost wise isn't much.

I thought I'd got my bus sorted but the safaris at both end have been letting water in and there is a puddle on my front cab mat and I'm dreading to think what's underneath. And it's a new cab floor, gggrrrrr. But worse than that I noticed my rear safari has been leaking. I can see where the water has run inwards and down the slope and I am thinking that the wooden floor has soaked up a fair bit and the tin worm is chomping away at my OG floor underneath.

Luckerly I haven't got all my interior in my both these jobs are going to cost a lot of time and of course some money.

I would advise against knowingly having a leak. The work and cost involved replacing interior panels,furniture and cushions, not to mention the cost of foam for the seats. It's just not worth putting that extra bit of effort (or cost for new frames) in.

And then of course there's the rust issue, ha ha ha.

But seriously, don't knowingly let your windows leak.

The taking apart of the frames isn't no where near as hard on the second go.

If you need the little grub screws give me a shout, I've got a bunch of them. I might even have a couple of West Cost Metric sills you could have.

Jason