Thursday 30 April 2009

30 April 2009

Somewhere under all this masking paper.............

..............is a bus. Brian wanted reinforced seatbelt mountings fitted. This involves cutting and welding the 'B' pillars..............easy on a resto project, no so easy on a fully trimmed bus with a million pounds worth of gadgets and hi-fi in it.

Sam made up some reinforcing plates
cut a hole lower down the pillar
move the plate to the top and closed the hole.
plenty of zinc paint applied
seatbelt fitted and trim reattached.
Meanwhile Jeff was sorting this RHD Westy. The engine was removed to fit a new tank sender and to sort out the linkage on the weber carb. While the bus was in we also fixed the steering idler and a whole lot of other stuff.