Work continues on my 1969 VW Bay window bus. Let's tackle some frame repairs. This includes some patching. Cross member installation. outriggers and top hats.
Really good video! Your frame repair turned out really good. I’m glad the crossmember turned out the way it did. It made it less complicated. This is moving along pretty fast and I’m enjoying it! Great project Stephan!!
Awesome job Stephan! 😁👍 You're making progress and tackling the job yourself, that's inspirational for sure! Nice job prepping the metal and drilling the spot welds. Stay safe and happy wrenching..... uh..well, happy *welding!* 🔥
Well done on your progress thus far. I know each time you work on it you seem to encounter another surprise. Just take it one step at a time. You're doing just fine.
Hi Stephan 🇨🇦,Well great progress welding all the isseus on the frame work 💪🏻, Is a difficult restoration but step by step you get it done👍🏻👏. nice welding with he patches🍀.Greetings.Hubertus 🇳🇱🇳🇴🙏🏻☮🍀🇨🇦
Exactly, One patch at a Time! It can get pretty frustrating at times but just keep at it & it's very satisfying when you look back at what you've done!
Yes. I look FWD to the day I can paint the frame and make it look good ! I've gone through 3 flapper disks in this center section alone. Thanks Jason !
Wow. Excellent work. Your welding skills are fine. Way better than mine, which are none.😊. Only suggestion I would have is to try to clean up as much rust as possible with flap disc before installing parts. This will allow more access. If not another option is a rust converter applied with a paint brush for those hard to reach areas. Do the same for the inside of the frame. Not sure if you still have access to the inside areas of the frames? Only reason is because of all the hard work you are doing will be wasted once it all starts to rust again. Aesthetically I don’t think it matters because no one will ever climb under your bus to check your work but rust never sleeps so best to try and stop it or prevent it as much as possible. I have been too focused on school and work and haven’t been able to work on my bus. Stopped driving it cuz of steering adjustment that needs to happen. I also wanna address the missing torsion leaves to give me more suspension when I hit dips in the road. Hopefully this summer when I get a break from school.🙏🏾
Hey my friend thanks for the feedback. I definitely plan on painting the frame. Some of the areas are boxed in so no access unfortunately. Oncr the inside open sections are cleaned up I will be applying rust paint to those areas also. Here in the North east we spray our hard to reach areas with undercoating. Not the kind that hardens but fluids that creep like rust check or fluid film. It will be soaked with product once I'm done the repairs
@@pstreetgarage7304 awesome. I think I saw vagabonders use a product that has a hose that you can insert in small holes and spray inside box frames and such. Might have been a different RU-vid channel. I can’t remember but it’s made exactly for those hard to reach areas. It’s a flexible tube attachment for a spray can and it shoots out paint in all directions for coating the inside of a frame. I think Eastwood sells it.
