Thread: 55 Wagon Progress
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03-20-2017 11:56 AM #1006
The bus is old so the paint has faded quite a bit. we've had 5 year old buses that matched fairly well but this one is over 7 years old IIRC. maybe the bright finish will deflect away the trees...Last edited by MP&C; 03-20-2017 at 11:59 AM.
Robert
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03-20-2017 12:44 PM #1007
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Ryan
1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
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03-20-2017 04:45 PM #1008
Only the school basketball players will notice.Charlie
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03-20-2017 04:55 PM #1009
Good One Charlie!
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03-20-2017 06:54 PM #1010
Looks good, I think that one would be pretty tough to blend.Seth
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C.S.Lewis
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03-22-2017 10:59 AM #1011
All done with the school bus! To recap, Before:
After:
Now we can go back to our regularly scheduled program!Robert
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03-23-2017 12:32 AM #1012
Excellent work" "No matter where you go, there you are!" Steve.
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03-23-2017 05:33 PM #1013
Nice work! I have a curse of looking in the background of pics, I noticed that you have a 5 gal bucket that you tip over for the " I think I have one of those in here " moments. I believe I have 3 of those buckets under my benchSeth
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C.S.Lewis
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03-24-2017 08:02 PM #1014
That was the bus owner's stash. haha
With the 55's rear seat bottom narrowed to fit the wheel tubs.....
....time to do the same for the seat back. First to blow it apart....
This had a multiple fold down, arm rest in the middle, non 55 looking arrangement. The arm rest will be first to go, and we'll attach the fold down sections together..
The frame is sectioned in the middle, a tube driven inside, and TIG welded around the perimeter..
Then the seat innards are trimmed accordingly to make a one piece back..
Then some 14 gauge strips are cut out to join the two sections together..
That should work, tomorrow we'll work on the new pivot brackets..Robert
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03-25-2017 07:57 PM #1015
In removing the section of foam on the seat back we find the cushion has a wire around the arm rest void. As we are removing the arm rest altogether (when it gets reupholstered) we removed the wire..
The previous pivot for the seats had a tapered pin hex bolt that secured into a hex nut that was welded onto the pivot bracket, which can be seen here:
Due to our width constraints, we need to remove all that excess hardware.. So we chose to put the "securing nut" inside the seat, and use a simple pan head allen screw through the 12 gauge bracket.. Here's our Pivot "axle" inside the seat back..
Here's the test fit of our 12 gauge steel pivot bracket. Radius was used on the bends to match the tube. The tube was originally round, and the side uprights were flattened out using the MH19 hammer to buy us some more clearance between wheel tubs..
The bead shown on the bracket was done on the Lennox Nibbler.
This should give us a bit of clearance on the edges to help prevent binding of the upholstery.
Bead turned out pretty well for 12 gauge steel! Some TIG welding to put the parts together:
Video of it in operation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCcpqbF1jUU
One part down, next we'll tackle the brackets to the floor.Robert
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03-25-2017 08:23 PM #1016
Nice work, as always, Robert! Just curious if you considered leaving the seat back "split" so you could carry a long item while still having a backseat passenger? Although, I'm guessing this car won't be used for many trips to Home Depot!"It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out." - H.G. Wells
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03-25-2017 08:33 PM #1017
Thanks Randy, we're going to make the seat back fold down in one piece. Plans are for a void behind the seat for sub and amp. So it will be closed to the back side, and the fold down seat will permit the access to the amp.Robert
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03-25-2017 08:45 PM #1018
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04-04-2017 07:49 PM #1019
Back in the shop this evening, time to make some bolting brackets to hold the seat back frame to the floor..
Locating...
Brackets TIG welded on....
This shows it in place, we have about 1/4" clearance at the tight spots....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB5qRfP7IxY
The cleco's were removed and 1/4-20 AVK rivet nuts installed in the floor... Missed that picture...
Next will be the top support....Last edited by MP&C; 04-05-2017 at 09:19 AM.
Robert
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04-05-2017 12:57 PM #1020
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More great work! Those brackets are very nice. I don't think I can do that with my vice.Ryan
1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR Stage 3 cam, SuperT10
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