I purchased my bus just over a year ago from gumtree without viewing it before hand, I knew the engine was duff and the guy was desperate to sell as he was moving and couldn't shift it, so a cheeky offer was given and two days later a VW appeared on my drive. To my surprise it was in pretty good shape admittedly the paint wasn't great but other than that it was pretty good, so the plan was to throw in a AAZ and run it as it was.
Well the plan started off great but its ended up as a kind of rebuild including paint/engine/wheels/interior and lots of hours put in so faR
Its heading for paint in 3 weeks and I've got loads to do yet so wish me luck
Here it is the day it arrived, I had to whip the wheel of as it was punctured
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As you can tell its a panel van convert (not a good one) it was fitted with some dogey after market conversion windows, they ratteled and leaked really badly and the interior honked of damp
The main thing tho was the engine, Id already got an AAZ of my mate for the pricey sum of £50 so just to satisfy my curiosity I thought id try and start the engine that was in the bus, mmm I think my dog could have farted and moved the compression gauge more, so out it came and with an order placed to Brickwerks I had it swaped over in a day or so.
Not sure what this is but Im pretty sure its not ment to be there
some new and refurbed bits
Unfortunately Ive no pics of the new engine going in but a new clutch was fitted at the same time as the old one was past it
I finally got my garage emptied so I could get the bus inside as its not fun working outside in winter time, before I did tho i ripped out the interior and windows with the help of my apprentice, I also sold the 3/4 westy bed it came with as I wanted a full width one
Some extra wiring I removed, Im surprised it didn't catch fire!! Speaker cable for lights and a 12v socket NICE!!!!!!!!
Once inside I started on the brakes which were a bit funky, new back plates,wheel cylinders,pads, shoes and flexies the brakes were sorted
