safari´s n stuff

Safari windows from creative engineering have been ordered : )
along with a whole bunch of other nice parts, more about this when they show up.

Needed to buy these now as we must fit them up, drill and install the hinges and frames, and a little welding before paint, how to ? - see here

then get the frames painted chestnut brown.

They come with new glass, inner and outer seals, disengages, slides and catches.

These are really nice - just like the original factory safari window disengaging wiper spindles, one of those areas to address in the future, Creatives answer will be just fine for now.

These parts are also on route from Autocrafteng a lovely "3rd brake light lens" and a left hand bumper iron.

So got up early on Saturday and headed down to Peka´s garage.

Things are always going forward - which is real nice to see.

This time its the autocraft sheet metal "rear engine bay valence" and the fresh air vent, now straight and all holes welded and smoothed out, primered. He had also started addressing areas on the under side in preperation for paint, I dropped off some nos jacking points and showed him where to fix them, they will need a little tweaking but should go in easy.

He also got some rear hinges for the engine lid, so now we can bolt that up in situ and see what we have.

This pic is to remind me that I must get a hinge mirror arm for this door.

I removed the rear torsion tubes and spring plates, very nice to get rid of those notched plates, while doing this job I inspected the torsion housing tube, found a lot of sand in there, will be cleaning and blowing out the whole bus soon. what I can say is that tilting the body makes life working on the bus very easy. here is the torsion bar separating from the spring plate.

Had a little break and Peka showed us his rides - he has a fully renovated Austin A30 very nice.

and his airbrushed Goldwing

Peka working on kents 2 ltr type 4 motor

Kent getting his tins ready for paint

Back to the 55 - Thinking about having a small shelf up here for shades n stuff

Soon we will be fitting the safari, Need to fix the radio blanking plate and get the thin lip shelf blasted and prepped for paint.

Wheels will be painted same as top half chestnut brown, i think...

These original notched spring plates have now been removed, adjustables from typ2 detectives are on there way - hope they arrive this week.

After a couple of hours at pekas I headed home to help lelle remove the engine on his 21.
Didnt take to long, it was cold (2deg plus) and of course he had just filled the tank when the engine went pop, so a lot of fuel had to be drained, nice wiff of petrol in the air.

After lelle left with the engine in the back of his daily, I went about my own buisness, another tidy up and then i removed the dropped spindles form the beam -

just about then Tomas popped by with his new best friend Rocky - so I had someone to chat to while I cleaned up a few parts.

Rocky is lovely - one day we will have a little dog, just not yet.

Lelle´s bus on dolly's and pushed up against the wall out of the way.

organized chaos

Made a quick smoothie - frozen strawbs, bananas, milk and berrie cordial.

Kent came by this Sunday with some parts he wanted to try blasting, actually the compressor was slow and blasting wasnt so good today, I think the old girl is giving up, might need a faster compressor and a little blasting cabinet.
Any way we removed a bit with sand and tried soda too, got some results and it did clean them up.