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Is there blood on my bus?

Is your head ok?

I know there will be enough space to flip the tire, no problem. Seeing as either way its mounted it will be snug up against the front of the bus. I just need to find out where I can buy the metric hardware/lugs to pull it all together.

This is where I got my metric centerpin reamer . They will give you a rod Mike and they are local. Let me measure it up and get it figured out. Then we'll get it from them.

http://www.metricmcc.com/catalog/Ch1/1-114.pdf

Time is never on my side so it seems. But Mike will have it for winterjam.

I made a pair of mounting brackets out of square tubing. I drilled a 1/4" hole through each end.



I slide them onto the ends of the brushguard and clamped them. Once they where nice and straight I transfered the 1/4" holes through the guard.




Next I enlarged the hole with a holesaw. 7/8" I think. This allowed me to slide in small peices of 1/2" pipe. This will prevent the guard from crushing when the bolts are tightend.




Test fit.



Now I cut the bottoms off making them into channels. Those channles will get located to the chassis rails and welded in place.

Glenn A you are the master. I give you alot of credit for imagination and know how!!

very sweet mock up......

great work as usual.

You da man!

Glenn A wrote:

Creative juices are flowing, nice play by play on the bracket build!

Thanks everyone.
I'm going to post a play by play on TS baywindow thread when this is done. So i'll probably go back to this thread and cut and paste. That is the reason for the play by play.
BTW my next garage will have radiant heat in the garage floor. The cold floor really zaps the life out of ya.

Glenn A wrote:I'm going to post a play by play on TS baywindow

You better take a long hot shower afterward or else you'll never get the "stinkfoot" out.

Just ask Rob.

Glenn A wrote:Thanks everyone.
I'm going to post a play by play on TS baywindow thread when this is done. So i'll probably go back to this thread and cut and paste. That is the reason for the play by play.
BTW my next garage will have radiant heat in the garage floor. The cold floor really zaps the life out of ya.

I use a kerosine heater in my garage. I put it on about 30 min before i go out and it gets to the point where i can work in just a shirt. Good insulated workboots helps too. Of course my garage is not attached to my house either so i don't have to worry bout gasses the wife and kids!

So I got the channels cleaned up. Then clamped/bolted them in place. located the pipe in the center and tacked it. Then unbolted the channel and welded the pipe all the way around.



Then I cut off the extra tube. In order to get it to pivot down I had to clearence the end of the tube. I sliced it with a sawzall bent the end flat then welded it. now it can allow the brushguard to swing down.






Done! Mike come and get it!

nice...getting ready for bus bbq season!

great job as usual GA

You do nice work.

Cool! That looks sweet, do want to do a roo bar style bumper for a spit window?

Glenn, I couldnt answer your call I was at the funeral home. Im going to be at school tomorrow, can I stop by during the day to grab him?
Great work, it looks awesome. Ill spray it up in a nice shiny white this week and be on our way!

Ill be free around 1045/11 if thats not too late to call let me know, or feel free to call me then

I can't wait to see it. Nice work Glenn A!

Mike I left the key where you left it for me. Get it when you want. It is at the end of the driveway.

Thanks everyone. Enjoy Mike.

Glenn A wrote:

A picture worth a thousand words and ahead of schedule!

Kudos

Looks great! You should consider selling knockdown kits!

ObnoxiousBlue wrote: Ill spray it up in a nice shiny white this week and be on our way!

POWDER PAINT... it will look better and hold up better.

Big_kid wrote:Looks great! You should consider selling knockdown kits!

I dont think he made the bar itself, he only made the brackets and installed it.

Big_kid wrote:Looks great! You should consider selling knockdown kits!

Mike bought the brushguard from Flanders NJ last season. He asked me at the show if I could install it for him. Of course I waited till the last minute.

Mike I was thinkin it might look cool semi gloss black. It would match the strip on the bumper the wiper arms. Maybe you could prime it black and toss it on to see how it looks before you spray it the final color.
The powder coater will have to sand blast it to coat it anyway. So just rattle can it for winterjam.
Don't forget to paint the brackets black under the bus.

Mike,

Def have it powdered. Paint will wear off that thing from driving it so soon. And it'll look like shit with the rust drip marks on the white left over paint. Its gonna be a few bucks to have it coated tho.

Before you have it done, think about adding some tabs for fog lights.

BTW... looks real nice on there

Glenn A and Manny both basically wrote: Mike bought the brushguard from Flanders NJ last season. He asked me at the show if I could install it for him.

Ahh... Something tells me I missed that somewhere. Nice work on the install though.

Raj wrote: Def have it powdered. Paint will wear off that thing from driving it so soon. And it'll look like shit with the rust drip marks on the white left over paint... Before you have it done, think about adding some tabs for fog lights...

Good idea on the tabs