We’re taking the bus to the shop tomorrow! I’ve been on their schedule to get the safari windshields and front floor installed – depending on how it goes tomorrow, we might have them do a little more than that.
After getting the back end looking ok, I shifted my focus to the cargo floor and front passenger wheel well. They are a mess of rusty crusty metal.
Yikes! So after a week of looking at more and more rotten metal, I decided to start getting the bus as “road ready” as possible before driving to the shop. I started by cleaning up the front nose dent (notice I said cleaning up, not fixing up!!!)
That’s a sweet looking stud…welder….
I used a ratchet to gently pull on the front sheet metal – it worked pretty good! I didn’t get the nose finished, but it’s better than it was before.
I also started to re-install the electrical in the dash. I had pulled everything out earlier in my bus destruction phase – I didn’t label any of the wires, and just ripped everything out – idiot!! It took me a day but I got everything plugged back in – headlights work (well only one of them lights up right now), turn signals work (well all but the front right, and they all flash twice as fast.)
Found some decent chrome under the spray paint on the turn switch.
I re-soldered the signal switch to fix the emergency flashers – sweet!
So as of now, the bus is packed and ready to make the trip to Monkey Nut! The engine hasn’t been running that great, and its been stalling when I come to a stop sometimes… but I’m hoping for the best on the way there (and we’ve got AAA in our back pocket too.)
