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The Finished Bus

thefordhams — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:24:20 +0000

Some pictures of the finished bus, this was on sale on Samba for 6 days before sold, lots of detailing and a beutiful Carolina spring day for the pictures to turn out nice

Finishing Touches

thefordhams — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:15:16 +0000

We wanted to keep rust at bay and with the intention of driving it every day we chose to paint the entire underside in POR 15. This means we need a good surface to paint to, so after about 100 hours of scraping, washing, sanding etc we got to the finished state – should last a good while.

New wiring loom from wiring works – this is a 66/67;

To make the journeys more comfortable we chose to fit a lot of sound proofing from secondskin

www.secondskinaudio.com/

Lots of damplifier, followed by luxury liner pro, and then overkill, should be quieter. Put damplifier under the side panes too.

That long panel is not easy to fit – especially with the long chrome trim.

This is as it is today – about 10000 miles;

Running Gear

thefordhams — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:51:16 +0000

Anibal Chico www.steelbuggin.com built this 1776 long block with a new case, new heads, C25 cam for torque, with a deep sump and full flowed for oil filtering. We then added powder coated German doghouse tin, new Sachs clutch, powder coated intake manifold, and even tracked down a complete 38A (68-71 bus) generator – so we could run some extra music at some stage.

This is the first fit in the bus. Apparently correct for a 67 we made sure we used German heat exchangers that had the pre-heat on the passenger side, we then plumbed this through the rear tin and used a cap to block off the front tin.

This shows where we ended up putting the oil filter – under the drivers side of the tray, out of the way of stones and debris but still accessible.

Turned brake drums, new slave cylinders, shoes and that ultra expensive one year only correct 67 master cylinder. Dual circuit brakes.

This is the first run early in 07. At this time we were using a 30 pict 3 with an ACN SVDA but we eventually went correct 30 pict 1 and a correct era SVDA. With any luck only the really observant will say this is nothing other than a correct 1500 SP.

We wanted yet more reliability so we chose to replace the whiny 4th gear with a fully rebuilt Rancho stock ratio bus transaxle including RGB’s – just add oil and go they say.

www.ranchoperformancetransmission.com/transaxles/vw.html

New gearbox mounts, front and rear, restored gas tank with new sender, new heater cabels, clutch cabel and accelerator cable and we should be ready for the engine.

Here we are ready for the engine to go back in

This is how it looks today..

Paint & Upholstery

thefordhams — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:30:57 +0000

This is 1 day old coming out of the paint booth, inside painted, top painted, then the lower and finally as we see here 2 coats of clear ;

Next stop the upholstery shop Donalds Upholstery in Charlotte.

Sound proofing to the top surface of the roof;

Finished headliner – front to back and back to front – very straight

Covers with painted head stainless self tappers – the details…

Front seats, had to source a replacement drivers seat at the last stage due to a broken spring

Rear seats – back section straightened;

Correct year middle seat (minus the handles at this stage)

Fitting up the polished trim to the freshly traffic white and clear powder coated bumpers.

Father in law shaped the trim insert with aplomb