6 November 2009

Another Creative Engineering steering rack fitted this week. Andy's bus now has the full works: CSP disc brakes, Creative IRS and the rack conversion.

.............a little more grot cut out of Jason's bus

Jason's Split

A Little more progress on Jason's split. Really tricky bits these - any errors and the roof will look rubbish and the rear hatch can't shut.with the outer skin cut away we expose more holes on the frame

These holes are sorted and the area then loaded with zinc paint

next a fabricated repair panel is stiched into place

and then the welds are dressed back
holes are drilled afterwards to inject cavity wax.

Having done a superb job on the side gutters, sam set about sorting the rear corners and rear panel

first job was to fabricate a corner gutter

epoxy/zinc the inner frame
fabricate and weld a repair panel

with the welds dressed back the corner is as good as new - next step will be the rear panel.

3 Nov 2009

Please excuse the lack of regular updates - we're really busy at the moment and I don't get much time online.

Here's a brief rundown on what's going on today:

Sam is busy sorting out the rear of the roof on Jason's bus
Jeff is fitting a Creative Engineering steering rack to Andy's bus
Colin is finishing off the trim on Mike and Sue's 13 - there will be lots more info on trimming once Colin sets up his blog at ............. http://trimshop.blogspot.com/
Jem has sorted out the brakes on Marnie's bus and is now straightening the bodywork on Tim's '56
Chris is sorting out Mikes bumpers
......and finally, Matt is finishing off the panels on Richies Bay

Hope to get some pictures up later if I can get our new cheap and nasty digi camera working.
this new camera sucks!

27 Oct 2009

Sam's been busy lowering this 1967 Devon
....we've also had a few blue buses in. These ones in for MOTs and general checks

this one is in for a few bits of trim

and this split needs a new dynamo.

Our promotion on waxoil protection has been success - on Friday alone we put 5 buses on the lift

Graham's bus also got a little bit of welding and some new seals.

Westy Sold

The 1972 Westy has now sold

SO42 update

OK, we've made a start.

First we tidied up the load area a little and got rid of this

from here
all the rot cut out from one side. The remaining chassis was in really good condition. We've taken it back to bare metal and then given it a good coat of special primer - we then go on to do the same on the other side but i'm sure youget the picture

next we sorted out a couple of bits on the rear corner

and we then removed the panel which holds the decklid hinges

that's it for now - plenty more to come on this one soon

SO42 Project

A new project has just arrived from deepest Devon. This SO42 will keep us busy for a few months.

some bits are great, some bits not so great. We will end up replacing most of the roof, floors and a large part of the front end

major impact damage to rear corner

someone has already started for us

poorly roof

looking forward to getting stuck into this one - all fairly easy stuff when you've done it as often as we have.