new beam

I have washed and cleaned beam plus primer coat with top coat looks great!!!!!!!!!

Turbo!

Was looking for t3 turbo diesels and came across this..........Turbo envy.

5.7 Ltr Air Cooled

Check out this link, seriously a VW based type 1 5.7ltr 6 cylinder jobby!!!mmmental?
follow link below
http://www.alibaba.com/product/elzorroperu-11910867-11148907/5_7_Liter_Air_Cooled_Engine.html

front beam

excellent condition from VW MAGIC in oldbury near birmingham.BIG SMILE!!!!!!!!

T3 Diesel problems resolved???

A quick update for the Phil. As you know his 1600 td failed miserably despite being "Rebuilt" by one "professional" and "Serviced" by another. It took two Amateurs (this means for love, not trade) about two hours and a hang over to find the fault, and subsiquent faults. As you can clearly see in this picture, if the crankshaft pulley is sheared along with the woodruff keyway on the crank then as this gap expands you can see this relationship to the position of the piston to the valves!!! So anyway got outside my house house this morning to find a note no elcie (not happy at this point) The note reads "Bought an engine" :) Phil. (appy now) The other night Gary and myself spotted a suitable Golf donor for Phil with a decent price tag .......and hes got it!!! 1.9 Turbo Diesel Golf!!! AHU engine code so will fit His Bus!!!!!!!!!!1 no more crappy buggered 1.6 polo diesel.....HELLO 1.9 Turbo Golf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another MOT

So Elcie has passed another MOT test without any advisories!!! Can you believe it Im now entering my seventh year of driving my bus. Silly detail I know but still quite significant, none the less. Good link to know is http://www.motinfo.gov.uk/ all you need is your number plate and a number from your latest MOT doc and it gives a history as well as current status!!

Also of major interest to petrol heads my previous emissions test was at both limits. This year with my R1 exhausts i got a reading of.....

Max Actual

CO 4.500 2.934 (Carbon Dioxide)

HC 1200 355 (unburnt fuel)

And as Gary will tell you in his comments I think he will be very impressed!!

clean and more clean

more clean body

looks much better

onwards and up

can you believe it mku front beam !!!!!!!!!!!!!

cleaning mku

osf inner wheel arch after cleaning

Tom's has gone AWOL!!!

I came into the office today and found Tom in his computer, again!!!

I've been trying to lure him out with promises of burgers but he won't budge!

If anyone knows how to get him out, please let me know - He needs to sort that tagging logic out!

On a different note, I got the heater channel and floor pan half for Ruby today. Looks like a they fit together, after a bit of trimming. But not time tomorrow as a boat builder is coming to look at the barge and give me a price on getting her back in the water. After that I was thinking of popping over to the shed...

It's bank holiday bus weekend! Who's up for some hard graft??!?

Flawless or Floor-less?

A cutting disk later and the floor pan half is almost out...

One final whack with the coal chisel and it dropped out with a clang! Didn't want this to happen when cruising along...

Some really dodgy repairs with over plating of the corroded metal! Horrible!

You can see the remains of the floor pan rubber:-

Bit of pulling back and forth and it ripped off along the seam!

Can clearly see the panels I need now. On the phone first thing tomorrow ;)

The Lower 6 Inches.

Started off the weekend with a nice lower quarter repair beneath the light appature, quality and strong. All the welds/folds hidden in the battery tray lip section.
All the welds removed and the rear valance raplaced - easy peasey, done that trick before!!

This quarter is a lot trickier as weve had to cut away alot of bad repair work and one up the bottom half of the light appature. this allows movement in the reair panel so as to the old light to set the distance.
Garys been busy welding in the outer sill repair and sorting out the remains of the lower front b pillar and outer.

This then obviously leads to the front inner closing panel repair, alll good solid and slightly less Agressive work by our Gary!!!! :o
So as we stand with just the front wheel arch and the rear quarter needing a wiggle and a weld. thats nearly it for Garys replacement of the lower 6 inches!!!!! :) :):):):)

The usual Bus Shop Madness, Jims in the House helping Neil getting Neils front inner valance sorted for Welding....much progress by all.

Wet Back Spray Booth with Drying Tunnel Oven

Shame we can't fit a van into this thing:-

Would be great for shoving parts through ;)

  http://www.go-dove.com/assets/display.asp?ItemID=eno1170 

n/s wheel arch looks excellent.

from strength to strength

fab work i must say.

sorted !!!!

o/s outter sill magic fit THANKS to Ben.

OS WHEEL ARCH looks good.

O/S OF MKU

NOW THATS A TOOLBOX!!!!!!!!!!

Lucia, Old Timer!

Rob was Born in 1948ish and has recently celebrated his birthday.

Lucia is his baby and was born in 1954ish and also looks as good if you ignore the pheasant.

She used to deliver White Goods (fridges washing machines) in Italy until she became the daily pub runner for Bob The Rookie, carrying bike and other asorted life style equipment!

Is this the first Split Screen in the OCD??????????????????????????????????????????????

Ruby, Ruby, RUBY!

Looks like rust?????????????????????

Extra air cooling???????????????????

Jim and Darren have been busy on Ruby. Hacking away with angle grinders and a cheap set of blades to cut original Panzer Steel floor pan out. Will be a proper job nodoubt if you got the Jimbob on the Job!!!

Garys progress..

Garys got better pictures than me, but he hasn't shown them to the World as yet. They show what is it? Offside? rear wheel arch and lower sill repair.
Nice joggled edges and some solid spot welds here...

Arch Rival Welded

Another busy evening today... We tacked the arch in place, stuck her door back on to check the fit and with a bit of presure to the inner top of the arch she ligned up a treat ;)

Took no time to get the welder setup and the progress was quick....

Bit messy to look at now, but with a touch of gentle grinding and seam sealent it'll look like a factory job. Nice coating of zinc primer under all the edges should give the steel a chance under the stone chip and sealent.

A bit of an anyoying seam unveiled itself to us, but this tapped back nicely and it sits flush to the door and upper b pillar.
The carpet tuck is perfect and again, after some gentle grinding, will look as good as the factory job.
Worth every hour of hard slog and the extra cash for a genuine arch! Would reccomend it to anyone considering a cheaper repro!