Paras bus resto

Don’t blame you.

 

I read those last ten pages and there was deja vu like my own bus. Good luck.

 

You couldn't do any worse..

 

Started prepping the beam for paint

 

Haven't you already done the beam?

 

On page one but that was a patched up rotten beam back in 2011, this one might be a replacement.

 

Blimey 7 years ago ... time to do it again.

 

Made use of the warm weather and painted the beam.

 

That' to good to put on your van hang it on your wall

 

Ill be glad to have it out of the house and back on the van.

 

I don't know how you do it.

I'd would've set fire to it after finding it was 90% filler and 10% metal.

At least now you know that a proper job will be done, probably a brilliant one given what I've seen of the stuff that you've done.

Good Luck.

 

Front shift rod prepped and painted

 

Are you using spray enamel or brushed?

 

I’m using this stuff for the black parts now in an attempt to speed things up.

 

Same stuff I used, good old Lidl.

 

Front gear rod bush has seen better days
Are decent ones of these available anywhere?
I recall someone mentioning that they didn’t fit for some reason

 

I fitted one from schofilds and there fine

 

Cheers

 

Removed the handbrake lever and started to bare metal it
I was having a hard time removing the paint with a wire wheel on the grinder

I did the best I could and found quite a bit of pitting corrosion.

This bit was full of underseal so I burnt it out with a blowtorch then scraped the remains out before cleaning it with kerosene soaked scotch pad


It’s now soaking in the acid bath to remove the corrosion and when it comes out I’ll go over it with a poly strip and clean disc to remove the remaining paint

 

What are you using for the acid bath?