Paras bus resto

I've been following your thread for a while now and its great to see your ideas come to life, truely inspirational, it's great to see something different from the norm, certainly makes me feel a bit braver about some of the ideas I've had for my own bus. Keep it up

 

Cheers syd

 

Todays update

Spent some time fettling the latch, then I moved on to the bottom mounting solution!!

So I cut a disc from a bit of stainless flat bar, and then made up a boss with an angle to match the slope on the top of the bumper... bish bash bosh


Bolt remains upright now


Added a 2nd open position


Engine lid semi open-able


closed


dropped my torch in to give it the rough final spacing once I've sorted the sprung loaded dampener


Just about enough meat for a padlock?



So that's pretty much it.. just got to make up a couple of tapped bosses for the tube ends for the rose joints to fit to!!

 

Outstanding

 

Enough room to get a fire extinguisher sprayed in the engine bay with the carriers closed if the neeed ever arises
Nice one paul

 

Quality, will look well smart when finished

 

Thanks all

 

Rather than having a padlock for the spare wheel how using a locking wheelnut like you have on an alloy wheel on your car?

 

I'd have to use fine pitch bolts... but that is an option

 

Use wheel studs

 

That looks fantastic ,miles better than the devon option ,best place for the spare

 

Just wait until it's been to the powder coaters

 

And no need to relocate the numberplate and light like a devon and easier acess to the engine bay than the devon carrier

 

I didnt realise they were getting poweder coated paul

 

Good point Para regarding the number plate and light ,as for access I could never understand the issue it takes me maybe 4 seconds to undo 2 catched and let gravity take over

 

Paul mate i have a concern with the locking mechanism also being on the top hinge

If someone was to pull on the wheel or try to climb on it all the force is going to be concentrated on that top mount
Its also going to get a lot of force on it from the wheel trying to bounce around on rough terrain

 

Once the devon one is layed hotizontal it makes it awkward for access dude as you have to lean over the spare
With the swing away carrier you have space to get right inside the engine bay

 

Thinking about this theres nowt that can be done whilst its in the open position

However in the closed position if you added a supporting type rest on the rear hatch then it would be supported at 3 points of a triangle and would spread the load a lot better

Let me know what you think?

 

Id rather have a padlock to be honest as im lees likely to lose the key off my key ring than i am a locking wheel nut