GolfDriver's 74 Bus project

[Golfmad]

Thanks Bugger, I am not really a true handyman, but at least I got better grades than malema in school for woodwork

One pic I took from the front


Ill have to wash her one day and do a proper photoshoot.

[Bugger]

Cool thanks for update pics glad you did better in Woodwork

[Golfmad]

He he, yeah - sadly the poor quality cellphone pics doesnt do the woodwork justice.

I still have to trim the carpet and clear varnish the side panels, then sand down the deck and put another coat of varnish etc.

[Golfmad]

Something my bus really need - drink holders and some space to put loose items like cellphone, keys, gate remote etc.

So, I built me a console between the two front seats to fix that problem.


Must go here


Voila !

[retrovan]

Now you will never be able to become the ANC youth leader...............


Nice work...

[Golfmad]

Thanks retrovan, it still needs finishing though, and some felt lining so items dont slide around.

[RICKY-R69]

Mmm, interesting licence plate on the pic at the top of this page.Wonder where that came from?

[Golfmad]

I thought of it all by myself you know

[RICKY-R69]

I thought I have seen it on the forum before. Oh now I remember... It's the name of MY project thread.

[Golfmad]

Oh, I didnt know - Ill change it to STOOTWAGEN then

[Golfmad]

Did a trip over the long weekend in August departed Saturday 6 August to Borakalalo Nature reserve in North of Pretoria, which is at Klipvoor dam. Was the bus's maiden camping trip so I was unsure if she would make the entire tip without issues.

Had a buddy drive with me to assist if anything goes wrong, and, well just as we drove into Soshanguve, halfway there, he called me and tuned me he sees smoke comming from the right rear of my bus, so I looked at the rearview and see a lot of white smoke, which looked like its comming from the exhaust, whic is on the right side.

Stopped, and saw its the rear left wheel smoking like a mofo. It was the brake drum that overheated, since it looks like it was adjusted too high, so it caught all the time I was doing round 110 on the highway.

Used a whole 5 litre water bottle to cool it down slowly till we could jack her up and adjust the rear brake down. So on our mary way we went with about another 50 kilos dirt road ahead f us to reach the destination. But we set it a bit low, so the brakes were kakas on a gravel road, since the fronts locked up like nothing, which was interesting on a dirt road. No other problems and I reached my destination, all be it a bit dusty, well, a LOT dusty.

Didnt take too many pics as it was a relatively short trip and I was trying my best to keep up with a friend's TD5 Defender on a dirt road, with scary brakes.
Was total of around 250 kilos, and well, she behaved well, just need to sort the starter issue once and for all.
Setting up camp - ah no tent to pitch for me, just open door and offlaod my many, many coolboxes



Some nice sunrise pics, early in the cold mornings



Took a game drive on saturday and took a nice shot of some Rhinos, and a Girafe



Camping is fun, but it was cold, for the ground dwellers in their tents, the bus she was lekke warm compared.


We came back tuesday afternoon, no issues at all with the white bus, because had a buddy adjust the rear drums perfect while we were enjoying the bush and a few cold ones.

[CooP]

Great travel pics, thanks for the updates

[Golfmad]

So been busy most of today, with the help of a good friend, to sort out the bus's brakes.... Eish !! Big job, bigger that I thought, since my friend is a perfectionist at what he does, I only wanted to do the calipers up front, but we ended up doing both rear drums and front calipers.




Rear shoes still looks good with a lot of meat left



Removed both front calipers, got all new seals and rubbers, cleaned up properly, some red rubber grease and they were good as new.



But after honing the rear slave cylinders, and started to bleed the system, the driver's side rear slave leaked past the NEW rubbers like a mo-fo..... So we couldnt finish today since it was past 5 allready. I want to go and buy 2 BRAND new rear slave cyliners and moer the old ones into the rubbish bin...

Where can I get me a pair of these slave cylinders quick? Midas? Autozone?

[beetlefanatic]

I got 2 from ABE Midas earlier this year. Wasn't too expensive either. Less than R250 for both IIRC.

[sean]

Are you going to attend to your master cylinder?

Last time I remember it had a Golf one fitted.