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2007-04-30
More progress. The brakesystem is almost all there. The engine is back (cleaned,
painted and with new valve-guides and oil-pump) and all the bus now suffers
from are electrical issues... It feels there is still a long way to go and
so little time before summer.
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2007-02-18
A lot has happened. As you might have noticed the bus is back on it's
wheels! New tyres and restored brakes. On the to do list:
:: Clean tank
:: Rebuild engine
:: Paint the inside of the bus (but not the dash)
:: Sort out the electrics. Semaphores wanted!
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2007-02-08
I put a spaceheater in the bus and started scraping and cleaning the
inside walls, and painted parts of the roof the same color as the outside.
I found a few rust-spots but have decided to ignore them. I also had to
patch up a hole on the top of the roof so that the bus wouldn't fill with
water when the snow started to melt.
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2007-01-21
Snow.
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2007-01-14
This weekend I spent painting most part of the bus grey. It went smooth and
it looks so much better now. I also mounted tyres to the rims and started
assembling the brake-parts I've restored in the garage.
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2007-01-10
I cleaned the front to remove all the green stuff so that I could paint
it. I think it had a part of a forest growing on it's nose.
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2006-12-30
I rebuilt the fuel-pump. I chose to use a model that has a fuel-filter
built-in, even though it might not be correct for a 1956. Here it is
accompanied by some other parts on my Hazet assistant tool-cart.
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2006-12-09
Today i pulled the engine out. it turned over but had zero compression. It
wasn't the original engine anyway. (that's long gone I'm afraid) Previously
I also removed all the drums + brakes and started the restoration in my
garage. The next job is to remove the rest of the brakesystem, such as the
mastercylinder and all the lines, and also remove the gas-tank for
inspection and cleaning.
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2006-12-03
Now the bus is empty in the back. I repaired the front seat with some some
black tape and started removing the old lead/oil-based paint using a
hot-air gun and the paint just peels off! I also got it up on jack-stands
and had a look underneath, it doesn't look too bad, but it needs work.
Here are some pictures of some wacky
repair-jobs, probably done in Africa or some other place where there
wasn't a welder near-by. As the rust started to come they just bolted
everything up throughout the chassis and into a heavy gauge steel plate
inside the bus. Looks messy but seems to hold up okay.
This is how to pull off the old drums if
you only have a small puller like I do... but it works.
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2006-11-27
I spent an entire day tearing out all that nasty mouldy damp smelly stuff.
Old insulation, mattresses and wood in all shapes and forms were ripped out
and left at the recycling-center. It was disgusting...
In the last pic there is still some junk
left on the floor after five full garbage-bags and a huge pile of wood.
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2006-11-26
Wow, I got the bus yesterday - loads of things to go through here. First to go is the shabby
interior. A problem is that this bus won't fit in my garage, so it will
have to live outdoors in the cold Swedish winter. I will remove the
brakes and engine, and work with these parts during the winter in the
garage, and when spring comes it'll be time for assembly!
The bus has some rusty areas, but since
it won't be fully restored right now, I'll leave as much as possible as-is
just so that it passes the safety-inspection. The goal is to have the
mechanics gone through and drive it like that. And what about the paint I
hear you ask? - Stay tuned!
I also got a complete 36hp bus-engine
with all the right stuff. This one is going in the bus when rebuilt.
And I found out the bus was registred as
a 1956, because I found a few old papers in the back. VIN is 20-205565
which makes it an october 1956 type 2/23. Good to know.
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2006-11-12
I found the ad and got a few pics of the bus. Then went to look at it, and
bought it. This is a home-built highroof bus, that travelled through Africa in it's youth, but has been off the roads since
1980. It will
definitely be back 2007!
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