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Age : 51
Location : weston-s-mare
My Ride(s) : 1967 fridolin and 1966 (award winning-and yea i am being gay) ghia and 1960 bubble car
Registration date : 2006-11-19

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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyThu Feb 11, 2010 11:57 pm

you can sort it ? right?
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyFri Feb 12, 2010 12:06 am

of course lol i plan to have it painted this year also Smile
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyFri Feb 12, 2010 2:09 pm

cut the wheel arch off

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weld the home made panels inn, also covered in rust proof

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also primed the inner wheel arch with zinc primer for now

weld on new wheel arch

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more later but only seam sealer the inner arch lol
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Location : Clevedon
My Ride(s) : 411 Variant.
Registration date : 2009-01-27

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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyFri Feb 12, 2010 2:14 pm

Good skills there young man far play to ya Very Happy
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyFri Feb 12, 2010 2:17 pm

cheers bud, tis good to start playing with rusty dubs again lol
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Male Number of posts : 18609
Age : 51
Location : weston-s-mare
My Ride(s) : 1967 fridolin and 1966 (award winning-and yea i am being gay) ghia and 1960 bubble car
Registration date : 2006-11-19

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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyFri Feb 12, 2010 5:29 pm

Very nice work dude Blue the bus - Page 8 Icon_cool
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyFri Feb 12, 2010 5:43 pm

nomates wrote:
Very nice work dude Blue the bus - Page 8 Icon_cool

cheers steve, its not perfect but it will do lol
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Age : 52
Location : Wouldn't I like to know
My Ride(s) : Rollercoaster
Registration date : 2009-08-09

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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyFri Feb 12, 2010 6:51 pm

Nicely done dude Very Happy
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Male Number of posts : 18609
Age : 51
Location : weston-s-mare
My Ride(s) : 1967 fridolin and 1966 (award winning-and yea i am being gay) ghia and 1960 bubble car
Registration date : 2006-11-19

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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyFri Feb 12, 2010 7:51 pm

dubberatlast wrote:
nomates wrote:
Very nice work dude Blue the bus - Page 8 Icon_cool

cheers steve, its not perfect but it will do lol


Mate ...nothing ever is perfect , its a great job your doing ,many many people would have gobbed a load of filler over it ....or worse still let it rust away .........

I'm proud of you dude ......in fact ......YOU ROCK!!!Blue the bus - Page 8 Icon_cool
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyFri Mar 05, 2010 2:12 pm

Been treating the inside to some rust paint and then white lol, 3 quarters of the way through insulating to, thank you gunge xx

No pics as i didnt take any lmao
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Male Number of posts : 2306
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Registration date : 2006-08-19

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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyFri Mar 05, 2010 8:03 pm

Come on Carl. You know the score.... Pics or it didn't happen. lol!
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Age : 50
Location : Weston super Dooper
My Ride(s) : 1991 Vanagon GL Westfalia 2.1: 2011 A3 S-Line
Registration date : 2006-08-19

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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyFri Mar 05, 2010 8:55 pm

Dirty Dave wrote:
Come on Carl. You know the score.... Pics or it didn't happen. lol!


Nicely mentioned David!! Blue the bus - Page 8 Icon_wink
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptySat Mar 06, 2010 12:11 am

Pics of what lol, i will take some tomorrow, i plan to spend the day on it Wink
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptySat Mar 06, 2010 3:33 pm

Right just for the pic ho's

I had a bit of internal seam rash, treated it with stop rust, plenty of red oxide and about 4 coats of white lol

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Told you it was nothing worth photoing lol
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptySat Mar 06, 2010 3:37 pm

O i also decided to take the visor off, karmen connections are pricks and i hope they read this,
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With

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without

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I was gonna leave it off but after seeing it without i decided its staying lol
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Location : Weston super Dooper
My Ride(s) : 1991 Vanagon GL Westfalia 2.1: 2011 A3 S-Line
Registration date : 2006-08-19

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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptySat Mar 06, 2010 4:00 pm

Just replace the fixings with stainless kit dude....
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptySat Mar 06, 2010 4:04 pm

Mr Scoops wrote:
Just replace the fixings with stainless kit dude....

yeah thats what i will do this week, im sure he said it was stainless fittings when i bought it, hence not happy with them at all.
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Registration date : 2006-08-19

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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptySat Mar 06, 2010 5:28 pm

IF you are sure he told you they are stainless fittings give them a call on Monday....
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptySat Mar 06, 2010 7:51 pm

Mr Scoops wrote:
IF you are sure he told you they are stainless fittings give them a call on Monday....

yeah i was thinking that as surely it will have 12 months warranty lol
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptySun Mar 07, 2010 5:04 pm

What a fooking day lol

Found a hole on the rear wheel arch that was the size of a 50p, so i thought anyway lol

Had to take the rear spring hanger of witch was a bitch as the bolt snapped due to siezing Sad o and the rear hanger is fooked Sad

Not a small hole anymore lol
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Rear fooked hanger

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Male Number of posts : 18609
Age : 51
Location : weston-s-mare
My Ride(s) : 1967 fridolin and 1966 (award winning-and yea i am being gay) ghia and 1960 bubble car
Registration date : 2006-11-19

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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptySun Mar 07, 2010 8:09 pm

good clean up and a tckle from the welder and you'll get it as good as new dude ,loveing the pics by the way Blue the bus - Page 8 Icon_cool
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyMon Mar 08, 2010 12:09 am

gonna give welding the arm ago, need to find someone to press the new bushes in though, more pics tomoz Wink
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyThu Mar 11, 2010 5:46 pm

Right i used a little of this

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and turned it into this, forgot to take the before pic got carried away

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Gave it some re oxide

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Then some black but now my camera has gone faulty

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Male Number of posts : 38010
Age : 50
Location : Weston super Dooper
My Ride(s) : 1991 Vanagon GL Westfalia 2.1: 2011 A3 S-Line
Registration date : 2006-08-19

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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyThu Mar 11, 2010 6:22 pm

Bloody hell Carl!!! That will sort it out.......no chance of your repair rusting out is there??

lol!
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PostSubject: Re: Blue the bus   Blue the bus - Page 8 EmptyThu Mar 11, 2010 8:37 pm

fair shout bud
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