2003
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Adapting repair panels and painting the new nose on our Bay

Part 5 – lower outer valence to finish then paint


In the final part of our series of blogs we cover how the current repair panels do not have the frames for the lower indicators that epitomise the styling of our 1971 Bay window. Read the rest of this entry »

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1975
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Here we detail the crucial stage of wleding the nose panel onto our Bay project Havasu

Part 4 – reproduction nose prepped and welded on


Reproduction nose panels are mass produced in Brazil and need a fair amount of work to fit an earlybay Bus, here we detail what mods we performed and how we made our panel fit our Bus. Read the rest of this entry »

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1957
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A guide to replacing a common rust area on VW buses – a challenging repair

Part 3 – rebuilding our lower inner valence


Part 3 of our guide to repairing and replacing the metalwork on the front of a bay window bus – with the old nose cut off, the rusted areas cut back to good metal again we can start making good. Read the rest of this entry »

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1932
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Guide to the differences in a Brazilian LateBay nose and a German EarlyBay nose panel

Part 2 – cutting the old rusty nose panel off our earlybay


Although from Arizona – one of the hottest places in the US, our bus needed repairs to the lower nose panels. Here we show how we undertook that repair in a series of blog posts. Read the rest of this entry »

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1914
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Here we show how we set about restoring the nose panel on our Westy

Part 1 – replacing the nose panel on our VW Campervan


Reproduction nose panels only exist for later Bay windows – ours is an earlier model with the low indicators and flat badge area. This is how we replaced ours. Read the rest of this entry »

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1553
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Leaking oil onto the heat exchangers made driving this Bus almost impossible and dangerous here we rebuild on a budget

Air Cooled engine repair – Lenoir gets rebuilt


After driving Lenoir for 30 miles we quickly realised the oil leaks were fairly advanced and bad. A quick inspection shows the pushrod tubes needed replacing and to do this with original parts means cylinder heads off at least. Read the rest of this entry »

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1502
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Rear end rust in our project Bus and the restoration of the corners

Lenoir – rear corner repairs to our campervan


In our series on VW Camper repair we turn our attention to the rear corners, first inspection after we bought the Bus home was not too bad. Oh dear. Read the rest of this entry »

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1484
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VW Camper Repair – holes in your sills don’t look good and could fail MOT

Lenoir – Sill replacements for our rusty Rockers


Take one rusted out cargo door rocker, cut out the old mess and weld in some nice new sheetmetal to make a strong VW Camper again. Here we show you how we did a replacement on a 1965 Bus. Read the rest of this entry »

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1469
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Replacing a complete floor on our 65 VW Camper

Lenoir – new Splittie front floor and doglegs


Next in line after the nose was the mess that used to be a front floor – not much was left to go on and the usual 1/4 floor repairs wont cut it. The whole floor has to come out. Read the rest of this entry »

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1450
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Complete bottom 6 inches replaced and rebuilt – face lift anyone

Lenoir – Splitscreen lower nose rust repair and replacement


Lenoir, our 1965 vw Bus is in desperate need of replacement panels up front and low, here we’re going to take a look at how the repairs were done.. Read the rest of this entry »

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