Aircooled VW South Africa

Great work Sean !!

Are these older heat exchangers hard to come by ?

sean wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 8:53 pm
Some more parts added to the engine, but not yet completed.

Looking nice.

Donovan asked about heat exchangers.
Actually these engines did not have heat exchangers. Hot air from below the heads/cylinders got diverted to inside the vehicle when needed.

sean wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:25 pm After the paint stripping and sandblasting, I coated with the epoxy primer.

Do you still use the sigma prime epoxy primer ?

Donovan D wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 9:49 am

sean wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:25 pm After the paint stripping and sandblasting, I coated with the epoxy primer.

Do you still use the sigma prime epoxy primer ?

Yes, still the same.

And now the fun part begins

Headlights, front bumper, badge and Safaris fitted






NOS fuel level sending unit sourced and installed


Restored fuel tank and fitted correct felt pads for straps


Original aluminium VW cap polished from a rusty item to look like new


Fuel tank installed


This was a lucky find, both guages were missing from this bus, but I found a set only 2 months older than this bus. I stripped and polished them and re-assembled.


This is just a start of some of the pics, I'll try some more tomorrow.

WOW!!!
very impressive

Niiiiiccccee. Well done, wish my Westy was that far already.

Looking Good this Far

Looking very nice, should be magic when complete.

Herman

Looking good. Always nice to see your other kombis in the background.

Ah great stuff...your Fleetline is coming along nicely

Sean - how do you manage to turn out work better than some restoration shops, in such a short timeframe?

Amazing work.

Blitzkrieg wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 3:22 pm Sean - how do you manage to turn out work better than some restoration shops, in such a short timeframe?

Amazing work.

1. Hard work. I work every single night and every Saturday and Sunday possible if I'm not travelling.
2. Corona virus lockdown. I never had so much time before to work on projects. I had to close business for the whole of April, so spent that time catching up at work and working on projects. I didn't spend one day at home during the lockdown, I worked on this bus every single day.

Sean,....your efforts are clearly visible in pic's. You should be proud of it,....great job!

Haans

Looks great Sean