Your primer job is shinier than my whole car! LOL..
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Your primer job is shinier than my whole car! LOL..
Looking good
Thanks for the comments guys!
I've been using black for the bus parts to try and tone down the brightness as they tend to fade quite a bit after a few years. On this one I also added some flattening agent so it wasn't so loud like the roof repair.
Today the hood was reinstalled, all the bits bolted back together, and the rear skirt replaced..
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All together and ready for pick up tomorrow..
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Well last night found us carpenterin.... using some 3/4 MDF and some construction adhesive...
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The amp will get mounted on the access cover.
Nice work! Did you use a jig saw with a guide bolted to the center to cut the round hole? it looks like a perfect hole is why I'm asking. :LOL:
I started with finding hole center, punching, then a set of dividers to mark the outside perimeter. A thru hole was done with a hole saw, then my vise mount jigsaw with optional cruise control was employed for freehand cutting. I've found if you take your time you can be fairly accurate in your cuts. Even with such a sketchy arrangement. :whacked:
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I dig the cruise control! :LOL:
cruise control.. roflma
In wood or aluminum I really like a router with a circle jig for making near perfect holes. I may use your vice jig saw idea for some stuff though.
Just watch those fingers! :eek:
Got the drivers corner for the rear seat back tig welded in place and flange folded. Now for the passenger side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-61G1Q1EWo
On a side note, officially gave Photobucket the boot as my subscription expired last Friday. Robert isn't paying their extortion fees. Surprised the pictures are still showing...
Got a message Monday night from a buddy whose father is a retired body man. His dad was looking to sell some of his tools, and I was happy to give them a new lease on life. Picked these up yesterday, a bumper puller, body hammers, vise grips, dollys, rivet kit, and some w/d paper. Some of these I didn't have, so pretty stoked. Even a Herbrand VL-540 valve lifter...
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Touching up the hammer faces to remove some of the nicks....
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Picked up the Ball Peen that he had so I could make a hammer for better flattening tucks for shrinking
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Still haven't set up the new photo hosting, so todays update via youtube. Got the passenger corner all formed up and Tig welded in place for the rear seat back enclosure..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZ1zktynes
So yeah, yesterday was the FIRST day of school...
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That stinks, It looks like you have a full time job with those things.
That wasn't the same bus too - was it???
I guess those drivers need practice approaching the big (huge) yellow block in the road ahead!?!? sigh...
No, different one, I haven't touched this one yet. He has about 20 in his fleet so I'm hoping for a dry spell after this one.
New apprentice starting this Tuesday night, just in time for all the yellow
parts we'll be fixing!
Some of our efforts this past
week...
CAD used for console ideas...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctfvIeUpuzw
Test
fit for arm rest height and shifter location..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEyZksX3ZWQ
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Another distraction! Never know what you see pull into the shop. Got a phone call earlier this week to look at a damaged trailer...
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/A7...=w1126-h845-no
Apparently someone that had borrowed this for an event did not understand the operation of a Bulldog coupler. Near as we can tell, the split coupler was never compressed when the collar was moved forward, so it rested against it. With a bit more force they were able to insert the safety pin, and the first bump started the chain of events.
Looks like the did some plowing in the grassy area of our local county fair...
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Vg...Q=w633-h844-no
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....just before making contact with the back of the tow vehicle..
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Inside the operating room on Tuesday night, Jake and I pulled off the carnage of exterior shell... The corner upright had been broken clean off its welds..
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....as well as sporting a nice bow...
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Since we had the correct size square tubing in stock, we cut a piece to length, welded in place, then Jake abraded with the DA and painted with some SPI epoxy primer.
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The wiring harness also took a beating, we picked up a new harness from TSC and will get that installed tonight, and see if we can get the outer skin bent and installed..
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At least this one has less... "curves" than those big yellow boxes. 8-)
Nice work. At least it came unhooked at low speeds and not on the high way.
ditto what he said!
You defiantly have a variety.
Shall we all come over and... "test" the taps later??? 8-)
It showed up without samples. :mad: No trust.. :LOL:
Some progress from this past weekend.... trimming the painted aluminum panel prior to bending the long folds
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Installed.....
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Added new hooks on the safety chains
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....new wiring harness,
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....fabricated a new handle and used a bicycle grip, replacing the duct tape repaired original....
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Roof seams were sealed using mesh to help make the repairs more permanent..
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All ready for some keg action.. Painted panel was owner supplied, he had ordered it to make an outfield sign at a local ball field, re-purposed it to get the keg trailer back in one piece for a large wedding this coming weekend.
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Didn't even leave you (us?) some samples?? Oh well.. maybe next time.
Other than the color change, it came out well and fast.
What Mike said. They probably figured if samples were left, the project would take longer. :LOL:
Did the driver of the blue truck fail to read the signage on the back of the bus? I suppose it is hard to see the big yellow buses while texting? Please people, watch out for school buses, children, and motorcycles, put that damn phone down and drive!!!!!.....
PS: Glad to see he did more damage to his truck than what was done to the bus.....LOL....RooDog
RooDog, the way they tail gate on that road, one second of distraction and, well you see the results...
Went to Jalopyrama a couple weeks ago and finally got around to uploading the pictures I took...
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Very nice! The last 40 in post 1109, I'm surprised they let it in with the v butt windshield. If you mention one over on that other site they go crazy. Nice car either way though. The green coupe with the V12. Did they say what the engine was? 6 cylinders but only 4 exhaust tubes? That ardun headed blown flat head looks cherry! Thanks for posting these. A lot of very top notch stuff in these pics!
The green car has a V12 Lincoln.
Thanks for the wonderful pics Robert.
really appreciate it.
Well I think I have google images figured out now, so lets try an update on the wagon.
With the back seat rear enclosure and it's frame both sprayed in epoxy, time to assemble the two together. I didn't want to use hardware/rivets on the skin as I thought it would stay flatter under the upholstery without. Also, with the amp and bass speaker inside the enclosure, we needed something to limit vibration of the adjacent pieces. Our choice is to use some body molding adhesive tape to join the two together.
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The tape is applied to the frame, and then the skin attached on top of that..
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Next, we need to work on our console and the shifter inside of it. We have the console that came with the 2002 Monte Carlo interior, but it has far too much plastic that it didn't belong. In looking at other options, we decided on the horse shoe shifter used on the Chevelle. In conducting a test fit of the cable, we found it's trajectory path was much too straight where it either lifted the front of the shifter, or pulled the bulkhead fitting out of the "tunnel" mockup.
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Shifter lift:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9-HXW7oNYg
Our solution was to raise the cable exit from the shifter housing higher in order to have a better arc of the cable for entry through the floor. Here a "relocation bracket" has been added:
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Bracket all welded in place, looks like this will work for our shifter, return policy officially void now, but cable path fits much better through the floor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LySdi8tifvQ
We also needed to finalize seat belts for the rear seats. These are 12 gauge CRS pieces that are plug welded to the floor pan, 1/2" diameter bolt holding the anchor points for inner seat belts.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6T...M=w684-h911-no
The outer belts needed to be all the way out to the wheel well, and to better "anchor" we made similar 12 ga brackets, this one with a hemmed end to "hook" the pinch weld seam of the floor pan/wheel well, then plug welded in place to the wheel well. Again, a 1/2" bolt will anchor the seat belt:
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While Mike and Jake started the layout of the console.........
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......I fabbed up some bucket seat brackets out of 16 ga CRS for a 37 Ford. These had to be 3" high and only 1-1/2" wide, which was too high for my gooseneck die in the press brake. Chose to make them in two pieces and fusion tacked together using the TIG.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3R...A=w684-h911-no
Console fabrication
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Bottom and under dash edges are hemmed, folded flanges will support the filler panel between each side..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV1yiaFoUfQ
Fitting up the corner radius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NdR3c_S8nE
Some sprayouts done this evening to see if we can nail down a color for the green.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFxz8aMOzI0
Will take another video tomorrow in the Sunlight for the true test.
Color 1: Corvette Limerock Green
Color 2: Land Rover Kosrae Green
Color 3: Audi Azores Green
Color 4: H/K Organic Green Kandy Basecoat
They all look good, daylight photos will help!
Sunlight views in same order,
Color 1: Corvette Limerock Green
Color 2: Land Rover Kosrae Green
Color 3: Audi Azores Green
Color 4: H/K Organic Green Kandy Basecoat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DoEQZkZJpc
Didn't get the pictures in overcast, but these help to show, 1-3 don't show color well at all in overcast or dim/indirect light conditions. As we'd like the car to look green regardless, we're leaning toward the H/K
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hH...=w1178-h883-no
Is the H/K at 9:00 in the picture, that one definately is my favorite!
I think you are making a great choice. I'm guessing it is at the 9 o clock position too.