Gear box on the bench and under side painted at Peka´s

The focus just now is on the gearbox and this is because hopefully very soon all those expensive parts for the front and rear suspension will turn up....

Then as soon as we can get the bus back on its wheels we can get it rolling into the spray booth for the body paint.

 So here is the type 3 Gearbox on the bench - stripping of the hubs.

First job is to remove the old short axles and tubes in preparation for the new stuff from t2d also then the box will be easier to manage and look into finding out why I cant select gears at the moment.

The axle tubes were pretty easy to remove once I had the long puller. The biggest issue I came into was trying to remove the cir-clips that holds the axle in to the box - many attempts and a few detours on the way home from work to try and find the tool that I needed, now I have the correct size cir-clip pliers and tonight I shall try to get these bastards out.

Its always good to read a bit from John muir´s book 

 

The garage - late night lock in

Popped into peka´s the other day to see about the rear bumper, I needed to check that the rear bumper irons that arrived from auto craft would fit - they looked good. The bus was in the after paint room  - He had painted the under side - looking so good!

catch you on the flip side