Monday 21 September 2009

Workshop tidy out




Today i cleared workshop in readyness to get my westy in for its winter make over once cosy in its new space it was up and away ready for beam removal and fitting of narrow beam and dropped spindles

Wow its been a while

Nikkis bug been a long haul so far but the nearside is shaping up, Full floorpans heater channels door pillars front and rear quaters front bulkhead rear crossmembers to name but a few panels



Sorry for the lack of blogs been a busy yet difficult few months,now the shows are over heres a few of the things i have been concentrating on ....



My zwitter saw some paint




Liams bus came in for the slam treatment and drove away happy



Jonny and lousies bus came in for a slam job,ok it wasnt themost radical but looked very nice once done.





Thursday 12 February 2009

Scotty B the tent wrecker





Scotty dropped his bay off for some suspension surgery last night.Had previously fitted adjusters in the beam but they wernt quite the ticket.The van was too high and rode like a pig. A few hours of tinkering and re setting the torsion bars on the rear it now looks a lot more respectable.While I was at it repaired the drivers door mechanism and fettled the motor to run better.happy campers all round ready for the spingtime cruising

More graft for the 54



The 54 barndoor single is all up in the air having had dropped spindles fitted to the front,whilst under there I have been looking at whats missing and goin thru the boxes finding parts .Waiting on delivery of gearbox conversion parts as soon as they are here it will be fitted in.Time to start building this up now doors are next new seals thru out.

Tuesday 3 February 2009

"Commit" the 72 std 1200 bug







long term project belonging to my fiance owned since she passed her test . Time took its toll on the body work!!

Taken off the rd last year i think was a while ago....

Basically needs lower 8 inches all the way round not my favourite pastime but we have one side back together now prob taken me longer than needed but its how it is done right or not at all

pepe has new boxter alloys


Tim has fitted the boxter rims to pepe makes all the difference

need to play with tyres sizes but we getting there

Barndoor getting some attention


Finally we have some action on the barndoor
full steam ahead with suspnsion mods removing the gearbox so a bug box can be retro fitted along with the bigger engine sitting in the back. Dropped spindles will follow shortly ,waiting on a few bits to arrive but things are under way intial deadline for the volksworld show but all depends on how quick we can get the bits together.