My New 1975 Devon Eurovette. Full resto.

Oh dear! Don't you have a Haynes manual? You ought to get one!

 

I paid ball's to fit it! Lol

 

Actually, I just dug out the Haynes manual and it looks alright, the bits go ontop before the swing lever I think

 

Today's update... Stripping!




Brake master cylinder looks a little worse for wear..


And the pressure regulator could do with some tlc...



Pedal levers out for painting...


And the stripped underside

 

Are you reapplying underseal carl or going for somthing else?

 

I'm gonna strip the old crap off, rust treat with fe123, paint the underside and wheelarches black, then tetroseal underneath, new brake lines, thermal wrap the heater tubes, then the beam and everything I've stripped off will be cleaned and painted and put back.
New clutch, accelerator and handbrake cables too.

Then I have to clean off the centre bit properly, and thermal wrap the long heater tube, also have to figure a way to fix the rust on the wiring loom tube, I think I might just cut the rot off and use a bit of PVC pipe with jubilee clips for a quick bodge.

Then I can underseal and stick the belly pans back on

 

Avoid tetroseal dude it dries out over time and cracks which allows moisture to ingress behind
I use hammerite underbody seal with added waxoyl
It stays soft below the surface and resists damage from kicked up stones and the such like

Keep up the good work dude
With your approach and attention to detail this is going to be a cracking bus when finished

 

Yeah ok i'll have a little gander at that instead then

Yeah hope so, I really want to get it to paint so i can start the re-assembly.

 

Well done @paradox . Cheers
I should have looked at it closer, I thought it was just one single black rubber pipe.

 

Thats cleaned up nicely

 

Got a fair bit done today,
All the old crap was cleared off the bottom, took ages but got there in the end,



I took all the old underseal off, sanded it down, wire brushed it, rust treated the entire area with fe-123, then de-greased and etch primed.



Then some high build primer..







Then I moved onto some of the brake parts.

Got the new brake pipe set..



And re-furbished the master cylinder

 

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Were did you get the refurb kit from is it any good as need to do mine Looking Good

 

Well it's not really a kit, you can't get any internals, but as long as it's not too mucky itll be fine. Better than the hundreds that new ones cost.

I got a new brake switch, new rubber gaitor, new rubbers underneath the reservoir and a new blanking plug. Also the new rubbers each end of the pipe.
Where the pushrod goes in.. There is a little circlip which is easy to replace, if you just remove that, pull the mucky end bits out, clean them up and put them back.

 

Oh.. Also done some seam sealing, hopefully can get the 1st coat of paint on tomorrow..

 

Today's update...

Got the underside half painted last week, but ran out of paint halfway through, so.. Paint came through mid last week and I got it painted this morning..






Then attention turned to the front beam,




Only the one small hole to fill,





Trailing arms stripped

 

I then cleaned up and rust treated,
Then got on with the primer..

 

It's looking great under there
What colour are you doing the beam

 

Cheers man, just gonna be straight black, with silver shocks, same as the back.

I've still got to do the brake lines and under sealing before I can get it all back together. I feel like I'm getting somewhere now.

 

Oh also.. The beams been lowered a little bit.. And where the grease nipples screw in... It looks like the torsion bars are in the way, can you still use the grease nipples on a lowered bus? :s