72 Early Bay X-Over

haha..

Well I went out and did a fair bit of work. The interior I bought was for a LHD and its a pile of wank to be honest, I have learnt a fair bit about the dub world already haha!!

Oh well live and learn. Headlining is in and looking 'ok'.. its never going to be a show bus, but it will be good enough for us to enjoy

substandard wrote:

Superfunkyfresh wrote:

LHD????

the windscreen wipers go the right wya for a right hand drive

Superfunkyfresh wrote:Put clothes on, walked downstairs, had breakfast..

Read a note "10 weeks today we get married baby"... Smiled

Put overalls on, walked outside, got to van, touched van... Too cold..

Back inside, clothes off, pjs on, lying on bed with a brew ... While my missus texts me saying shes about to go in the gas chamber.. haha.. Joys of us both being in the military, I feel her pain!! Suck it up princess, we both have to do it...

Now, back to building my model ZX6 I was bought for xmas (prefer if it was a gixxer)

to cold?? your in the army CRACK on

RAF. Say no more haha

alibabs wrote:
the windscreen wipers go the right wya for a right hand drive

well i never noticed that before I was just going on the loading door.

mate you noyourself i no nothing bout cars !! (or busses/vans )
i just thought they went right to left to clear the drivers view the quickest for right hand drive and the opposite for left ............................................................
loading door n??

wipers remain the same regardless of where the driver sits. Just googled it

alibabs wrote:
loading door n??

apart from a few oddball exceptions, loading doors are on the opposite side to the driver. So when he pulls over to the side, the cargo doors are on the pavement side. Those NEW bays from Danbury can be converted to RHD but the sliding door is on the wrong side

Shes Lowered!!! What an epic journey.. TH Dropped spindles, 60mm narrowed beam. Adjusters on highest settings, rear dropped 2 splines.

sweet

Schweeeet!

Front still needs to come down a touch.. Does anyone have any top tips for doing this.. I can see it being a right nightmare to do!

Heres a few pics of before, during and after the lowering...













This is the test drive where I managed to break the EMPI shifter..



Got a bit of money for getting married so we decided to buy a few bits for the camper. We now have on order all the door seals inc scrapers etc for both front doors, 2 bows, a new cab headlining and a side window seal to try and sort out the leaky sliding window.

Hopefully will make some progress once I get the bus down to camp in a few weeks.

Ok, so its been ages since I did an update here..

Well, I got married and moved house, so I now reside in Tewkesbury and I now have a drive and a garage, so its been full steam ahead most nights, before I go spend 4 months in bloody Afghan from Sunday.. So here goes.. Whats happened.

Well after she was lowered we packed her up to the hilt with all the stuff we bought for her and drove her from Peterborough to Tewkesbury, blasting down the motorway no probs..



So once she arrived at her new home we decided to see if she would fit in the garage...



With about an inch to spare off the roof rack..



And the bike fits.. Just.. Winner..

So then after that we decided to actually work on Kermit.. We got married abroad and threw a little party back in the UK for those who couldn't make it.. We made a sweet shop..



We had the table cloths left over (and big bellies from all the sweets) so decided to make these...

So,

Since then I have played a bit of Ice Hockey, I played for the RAF against the Army and Navy in the Tri-Service cup. After holding the cup for the last 4 years we lost to the Army 4-0. Possibly the worst day of my career..



Makes it worse because I play in net..

Fast forward a few weeks and we get some glorious weather, so the wife and I have cruised about in the camper, generally loving it..

Then I decided to tackle this ..





Lots of filler.. I decided after looking through behind the battery and seeing the plating, that I didn't want to pick at it, so I grinded it neat and began filling..



Its been a whiles since I've done any bodywork, so got out the 240 wet and dry and started flatting back..



Only had some primer and no black, so threw a coat of primer on and flatted back with some 400 wet and dry to look for defects and pinholes.. (found plenty)

Only had this U-Pol filler (which apparently has no pinhole technology) and didn't have any stopper or green stopper, so threw another coat of primer on



Then dusted on a topcoat



The paint match is terrible but I didn't have the van with me and just wanted to throw a top coat on to protect it (even though it will be in the garage for 4 months)

Happy enough with how its looking for now.

Opps I lied.. 67panel on here was selling a kit which inc. Leisure battery split relay, hot start relay, electric fuel pump feed and 3 aux wires.. So I decided to fit. Only in typical fashion and being a x-over I didn't have the beam to mount it to. So I ended up mounting it by the battery...



Currently only have the hot start relay hooked up but having a few issues as when I pull the key out the ignition the engine keeps running.. Daves looking into this for me at the moment.. Pretty mental if you ask me haha.

Because of where I have mounted the relays, I am conscious of the need to weatherproof from the vents above.. I might look to make a cover/shroud for them. Who knows. Ideas??