Here's my Bus. It's a 1963 Turkis (My favorite VW color) panel van that was turned into a camper and will soon be turned back into a Panel!
My plan is to strip the respray, weld shut the hacked in windows, sort out the brakes and drive it!
Here's some pics of the paint stripping so far..
Before
During (The entire rear is done except for the belt line and part of the decklid)
It's rough but tolerable...Hello touch up paint!
As of last night
-Will
You can call me Will
Glenn wrote:you're a wise ass
Glenn A wrote:
Carpet goes on the bottom. Unless it's a van than it can go on the sides and ceiling too.
Damn that respray didn't look half bad . Who did this conversion ? Was it a aftermarket company like EzCamper or sundial or a homebrew ? X2 lets see the windows . Either way that thing looks nice and solid .
Glenn A wrote:Damn that respray didn't look half bad . Who did this conversion ? Was it a aftermarket company like EzCamper or sundial or a homebrew ? X2 lets see the windows . Either way that thing looks nice and solid .
I'm not sure if Ez was around in 63 .
There wasn't anything left to give a hint as to which company did it. As with the paint, if you got closer you could see that it was prepped pretty bad and surface rust was popping up in little spots every where.
.....and to fancy your hardware store needs, Lowes trailer windows!
You wouldn't believe how much caulking was behind them to get it water tight!
I'll post more pics if ya' want them
-Will
You can call me Will
Glenn wrote:you're a wise ass
Glenn A wrote:
Carpet goes on the bottom. Unless it's a van than it can go on the sides and ceiling too.
Mainly razorblades to scrape off the first few layers of paint down to the primer then Easy Off and steel wool to remove the primer. To get the hard to reach spots like the belt line I used Klean Strip, which was in a spray can, and scotch brite pads. I did the left corner first and the bus tricked me into doing the whole thing with a vision of clean paint, I guess it's time for some self induced "Patina"
Klean Strip and abrasive pads actually did a good job for the removal of Bondo. So, In a way i'm ridding my Bus of Bondo. Yay!
You can call me Will
Glenn wrote:you're a wise ass
Glenn A wrote:
Carpet goes on the bottom. Unless it's a van than it can go on the sides and ceiling too.
williamblanda wrote:
I'll post more pics if ya' want them
-Will
Sounds good. Post some interior shots. Looks great. It looks like so much work to strip back to OG paint. There is some bad body work on My drivers corrner I might have to strip and redo one day.
williamblanda wrote:
I'll post more pics if ya' want them
-Will
Sounds good. Post some interior shots. Looks great. It looks like so much work to strip back to OG paint. There is some bad body work on My drivers corrner I might have to strip and redo one day.
Thanks, after using clean strip the bondo just flaked off, Hell yeah!
You can call me Will
Glenn wrote:you're a wise ass
Glenn A wrote:
Carpet goes on the bottom. Unless it's a van than it can go on the sides and ceiling too.
It feels good to work on the Bus! Still a long, long way from being finished, hopefully I'll get the brakes done soon!
Spent the better part of yesterday and today cleaning weird crumbly under coating from my spindles and sanding away excess filler to get it ready for touch up paint.
Got the nose and rear in primer to cover up the bare metal spots and finally painted my emblem white !
Now it's not so distracting to look at!
Does any one recommend any decent touch up paint for the turkis?
Thanks!,
-Will
You can call me Will
Glenn wrote:you're a wise ass
Glenn A wrote:
Carpet goes on the bottom. Unless it's a van than it can go on the sides and ceiling too.
Yesterday I replaced the rear wheel cylinders! The first one took me two hours to do and the second took 20 minutes, Guess its a learning experience! The P.O used an old German cylinder and paired it with a new Varga, vargo, whatever, anyways the pair didn't like each other and braught everything to a standstill.
After taking out the shoes I found that they were toast, It makes me wonder what else is screwed up on the Bus...
Nasty Shoes:
You can call me Will
Glenn wrote:you're a wise ass
Glenn A wrote:
Carpet goes on the bottom. Unless it's a van than it can go on the sides and ceiling too.
I once had a scraping sound coming out of the right front wheel in my white bus, I took the drum off and one of the springs was broke and the meat on the shoe was split in half across the center, I changed the spring closed up everything and got two more years out of the busted up break shoe.
Last edited by mannys66 on Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.
mannys66 wrote:I once had a scraping sound coming out of the right front wheel in my white bus, I took the drum off and one of the springs was broke and the meat on the shoe was split in half across the center, I changed the spring closed up everything and got two more years out of the busted up break shoe.
You're scaring me
You can call me Will
Glenn wrote:you're a wise ass
Glenn A wrote:
Carpet goes on the bottom. Unless it's a van than it can go on the sides and ceiling too.
Will,
I have family in Whitney Point, Windser, Endwell and a son at Syracuse. if you need anything from the island let me know as i frequently ride up there. My next trip is Tuesday to take my sone back to school.
Love Hale Eddy. Every time we drive by we all yell EDDY!!
Ahhh! Awesome! I pretty sure I don't need anything from NYC, but, hey, thanks! Feel free to stop in if ya' want to. Just remember... "Right across the river and to the left"....
You can call me Will
Glenn wrote:you're a wise ass
Glenn A wrote:
Carpet goes on the bottom. Unless it's a van than it can go on the sides and ceiling too.
williamblanda wrote:Ahhh! Awesome! I pretty sure I don't need anything from NYC, but, hey, thanks! Feel free to stop in if ya' want to. Just remember... "Right across the river and to the left"....
williamblanda wrote:Ahhh! Awesome! I pretty sure I don't need anything from NYC, but, hey, thanks! Feel free to stop in if ya' want to. Just remember... "Right across the river and to the left"....
Just to clear up a minor point , we're not in NYC ,we're on Long Island .
