Wagen west parcel

Found this In the mail Box when I came home late last night - the front Gear box mount ! Just took a week since ordering.

Sealing wax red paint !

Friday is a red day !

Sunroof and Headlining

Soon the paint stage will be over, then it is the home coming.
 
Im really looking forward to that day, Cant wait to get it back in the garage at home. 

I'm planning on putting the bus back on the tip girl so I can mount the hard brake lines with it tipped over, and of course the forward controls and everything else under the bus including, master cylinder, servo, routing a new customized loom (yet to be ordered).

after that it will be time to refit the running gear again and sit it down on its wheels - another mile stone to look forward too.

As I prepare in my mind what I need to order for the next stage there is the stage after that....

Headlining and sunroof - what to do? if you search the internet all you get is go to a pro, its too hard.

If I was back home in the UK I don't think it woudl be much of a problem to find an experienced fitter of samba head linings, I had thought about possibly Holland? I could ask the Kieft en klok guys and Marcel miller for advice, but realistically they are to far away, so who is near that could do it? I´m going to ask around the places I have seen on the net here in the Stockholm area and see what I find. In the back of my mind I m preparing for the worst case which is DIY.

The sunroof is less daunting then a full headliner, especially when this place has made life much easier for rag top renovations!   vw sunroofs.com

After that I will work my way around slowly replacing the parts I have and sourcing those parts I still need to finish the bus, handles, locks, lights, seals etc.

this is my current wanted parts list:

wiring and all electrics
brake pipes
Front door handles (ice pick)
Semaphores
re chrome or buy new inner handles, same with sunroof.
louvre trims
soundproofing/insulation
door cards.
headlining
sunroof parts, some hard and soft inner and outer.
seat covers front
carpets, mats
interior to build

oh and an engine.

Some uplifting pics.

Bumpers are ready for deluxe moldings to be bolted up.... hope I can achieve a good fit here, we will see soon enough.

Love a bit of sealing wax red and chestnut brown

early n smooth

Tomorrow is Friday, I am working the dinner shift which means a chance to get to peka´s in the morning before work and after Travis has been for a check up at the dentist´s.
 I´m taking over the pop outs from autocraft to see how they offer up. and the rh side rear bumper bracket.

Auto craft parts are here

Day off and for once I was home and able to take delivery of some more parts from auto craft that showed up.

Side pop out windows, shift rod, R/H bumper bracket and some small parts to connect the gear shift rod to the shift rod and gearbox.

Bearings...here all the time -I know I'm as blind as a bat !

 

Fo rthe last week or soIve been sending emails to Paul, he has been chasing csp, all looking for the bearings that I didn't find in my front disc kit....

Gunter at Csp in Germany got back to me today saying that I should check again as I really should have them - Even though I had checked many times, it was niggling me that they could have slipped past my eyes, somehow....

so I went back up the garage just before closing on Friday afternoon, the garage was still open luckily so I ran around to where I am keeping the parts and looked in the boxes -

 no way ! They were there !!! plain as could be??? I have bno idea how I missed them.

All this time - right under my nose!
So I immediately emailed Paul and Gunter and apologized for any wasted time!

I'm happy though, this means that I have everything to build the front up now.

Doors have the final paint now, sealing wax and chestnut brown.

movable bus once again.

On the way home I stopped by minicars and picked up some aircraft- Henrik showed us the big quad copter - want!

Boys have been making some show box models

Gurra spotted by Travis on our way to vasteras

Blasting again

Today I got to plumb some good air pressure into the blasting cabinet for the 1st time - after setting up as best I could I then spent about 4 hours quite happily blasting away paint and rust on a number of small pieces, bringing them back to bare metal all while listening to the UK Radio - sweet!

 

 

 Some of the parts I have been blasting to bare metal - foot pedals, bumper brackets, steering arm, torsion tube covers ( these took some time!? )  hand brake parts, and door catches.

Pallets are good !

First up with some help from peka we moved the bus off the double post car ramp and lowered it onto a couple of pallets, at the rear of the bus we fastened some spare wheel dollies I had so we could move it around.

 

The front had to be pushed up a little and over the center part of the car ramp - so we used a pole and some ply wood and rolled it - cave man style! 

 

it worked a treat and soon we had it rolling around the workshop - it can even roll no problem into the paint booth like this.